Easy way to embed you Flash file to your blog!

You have a Flash movie (.swf file)and you want to show it in your blog. There is a simple way to do it.
First, you need to upload your .swf file on any host in the internet. This step makes sure that your .swf file is always available to access. For me, I used my unix host of RMIT unix sever to store my file.
Then, apply the followings codes into your blog:

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" id="Yourfilename" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Yourfilename.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#333399> <EMBED src="Yourfilename.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#333399 WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" NAME="Yourfilename" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED></OBJECT>

Finally, replace "Yourfilename" by the real link of your .swf file (after upload your file on a host, you will receive a link to download your file). Your Flash movie will be already displayed on your blog. ^^

You also can change the width and the height of display window. Have fun!
If you want to learn more about this, please visit this site http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/qt/embedswfwebpage.htm

Camera Moves

The way to make your movie being more impressive is using kinds of camera move.
The clip below is from Final Fantasy VII – Advent Children. You can see some “Extreme Close-up” moves of camera in the beginning, which focus to the main characters. There are also some dramatic angle shots, which are very impressive.

Photomontage

I have an assignment in class called “Photomontage Assignment”. Therefore, I think it is good to preview this site before I start to work. In general, photomontage is some thing like this image. By using different kinds of image, we can create a whole picture, which consists a new meaning. According to the article, it’s better if we use our own photographs and images. Just take the camera, go out, and shoot as many as we can. Then a last thing we need to do is using Photoshop to build our new face.
^.^

Visit this site to read the article and get the tutorial if you like.
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/photomontage_tricks.

Typography_Listen to the voice

Choosing a font for a layout is very important. It depends on the tone of the layout. Fonts also have their voice. For example, in these two layouts, the word “REMEMBER” is used to create the meaning of them. A happy font type presents the word “Remember” in the pink layout, which is an inorganic font. The characters look like flowers. Do you think so? ^^
In the second layout, the font type is organic. Its voice leads you to something very old and mystery. Combine the typography and the image (man in black), the layout would talking about some things in a detective novel

Business Card_Orchidarium

Making a business card could be simple & not really simple, do u think so?
In this case, I consider about the white space of the layout. Using a part of the Orchid image on the top right will make a big impress to the audiences, then it would connect the audiences to the company name "Ochidarium".
At the bottem side, there are information of the company owner. The name and the phone nubers of this person actually are a little bit bigger than other information. This would lead the audiences easier to get what exactly information they need.
All at once, I'd to leave the white space to make the layout cleaner, fresher, and the easier information catching.

Flash Movie

This Flash movie is a part of my last semester assignment, and I took responsibility of this part. I would talk about the process from thinking to making a good movie.
In this case, I had to describe a couple (two fingers), who were lost in a forest and rescued by ET (an alien). Therefore, I thought about what scenes I need. Then I thought that is good to create some scenes just showing the flowers and butterflies. It would bring the audiences jump to some where in a forest. The main characters were focused in the next scenes. That was a quite good way to open a movie. By the way, if I did not try to imagine for the whole movie before I started, I could just focus on the main characters only, and the movie could be less romantic or less motional.
Any way, it’s really hard to make a good movie >_<
(hehehe...finally I did it!...but now i need to put the "stop" and "play" buttons for the movie..>_<..really dont have time)

One more thing is if you want to see the movie, after click on "play" button, you need to wait for downloading the movie. Its size is about 4MB, so it would take few minutes to download. T_T

Gestalt Practice

In order to design this article, I just want to make it simple and easy to read.

I would use the image to create a big impact to the readers. They could mention that the article is related to flowers or something such a plant.

Then the color of the title is similar to the flower in the picture, that would make some relation for whole article.

One thing I've considered was the size of the title, should it be bigger or was it ok?

Practice

Few days ago, I had an activity in Electronic Image class. That is drawing. We worked in-group of three, and tried to draw as much as we can. After that, we picked three of our images, and developed them at home.

Here are the images chosen:

This image has its meaning related to the tribes in African. The Moon and The Sun place an important meaning in their concept. Therefore, they often make their accessories have the shape of moon and sun. When I look at this image, I think about a tribesman, who is wearing something like this.


There is a legend about “Moon Island”; an island has dragons living there. Therefore, I picked this image and redrew it in Photoshop. Do you think that the legend could be truth?


When looking at this image, you might think about an eternal flame. The meaning is same for The Sun.