The end of a good year. The best.

I take a look back at what I've done for the year. It as a rather fun one, I agree - deepened involvement with SUTV, an introduction to HTML, and a lot of reading under the "Content" tab in D2L that I haven't read yet. The thing I enjoyed the most? Flash. It's a rather versatile tool, yes - I found it unthinkable a while ago that full-length animated features on cartoon channels were being made upon Flash. Inevitable, anyway.

It gets me to thinking:

The Budget - and why you should know about it. If you're involved with PA higher ed.

The final project of the year.

This was a work done with Sean Gallagher, of the same class. All coding is of the highest quality. On the website is a picture of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and constituents in HTML. The governor is proposing his budget for the 2011-2012 period. The constituents are protesting. This image relates the tale of Governor Tom Corbett's budget and what those involved in the PA higher education system need to know about it - and what they can do about it.

Flash 2: The Flashening.

http://students.ship.edu/tk7999/THEPACKAGE.SWF

A second Flash animation, this time for a grade. It now has something resembling a story with it. If I can get a hold of a copy of Flash, I might just try to hone my skill and continue on.

Sergeant Leitner's Princess Playhouse Troupe - a view from behind the scenes.

I signed on again to design the sounds for Professor Leitner's "Little Princess Playhouse." The plays put on for this iteration? A variant of the fairytale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses", and Cinderella, which needs no introduction. This time around, though, the professor requested that I use various image/video cues to go along with certain events in the story. It's not much of a departure from sounds - in fact, the only thing different is the medium transmitted.

I figured out a tad too soon that this task was doable with one computer, but since there were two available for use - one my own personal computer, the other the professor's old laptop - I decided to test my hand at juggling both. Foobar2000 on my personal computer was responsible for playing the sounds; VLC Player was used on the professor's for handling video. I wish I knew of a better alternative for each; a digital soundboard, with keys that could be assigned a cue. Press a button to play, press the button again to stop. This'll also have effect upon projectors, as well - one could be configured in a menu - the output projector could be determined during button assignment, or in the big "Preferences" menu.

The job does seem simple at first read - actor does something, push a button. Sometimes, it's the other way around - the first play of the double feature, "Princesses", starts on me cuing music. With the equipment and knowledge I had of the task, however, it can add up to become a rather amusing juggle of a projector remote, a "soundboard," and a "VCR."

It's something that I really enjoyed doing, and given the opportunity, I'd do it again - it's the sort of thing or field that I'd wanna work hard at and perfect.

Jenna Bush speaks - an event worthy of a listen. Or two.

This post to come in a tad - once I attend the event.

Flash!

My first play with Flash.