Animations

Two Flash Files: .FLA and .SWF

A graphic symbol is is used for intersecting objects to create one image

A movie clip symbol is an animation using SWF

The difference between graphic and movie clip symbols is graphics are still images and movie clips are animations.

You change the stroke by using the property inspector, There are 7 different stroke types:

• hairline
• solid
• dashed
• dotted
• ragged
• stippled
• hatched

Intersecting shapes are shapes that cross over each other. 

Movie clip

Flash Intersection

Flash

3 types of symbols:

Graphic
MovieClip
Button

3 types of tweens:

Motion
Classic
Shape

Between the start and end of your animation.

Difference between frame and keyframe: A frame enables our object to appear on the timeline as the playhead moves and keyframes are used to animate one frame

Human Computer Interaction

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study and design of how humans and computers communicate.

HCI is incredibly important in our field of study, as a large proportion of our work is done on computers.

HCC (Human Centred Computing) is a related field of study.