This book will assist journalists and Flash developers who are working together to bring video, audio, still
photos, and animated graphics together into one complete Web-based package.
This book is not just another Flash book because it focuses on the need of journalists to tell an accurate story
and provide accurate graphics. This book will illustrate how to animate graphics such as maps, illustrations, and
diagrams using Flash. It will show journalists how to integrate high-quality photos and audio interviews into a
complete news package for the Web.
Each lesson in the book is followed by a learning summary so that journalists can review the skills they have acquired
along the way. In addition, the book's six case studies will allow readers to study the characteristics of news
packages created with Flash by journalists and Web developers at The Washington Post, MSNBC.com, and Canadian and
European news organizations.
| A new form of storytelling |
p. 3 |
| What Flash brings to online media |
p. 23 |
| Drawing tools |
p. 45 |
| Simple animation |
p. 59 |
| Putting Flash online |
p. 73 |
| Buttons |
p. 89 |
| Making buttons do things |
p. 99 |
| Movie clips |
p. 117 |
| Working with photos |
p. 145 |
| Working with sound |
p. 187 |
| Working with text |
p. 221 |
| Building slideshows with sound |
p. 251 |
| Washingtonpost.com sniper shootings |
p. 299 |
| Star Tribune slideshow tool |
p. 317 |
| ElPais.es March 11 attacks |
p. 339 |
| CBC Radio 3 |
p. 367 |
| MSNBC.com the big picture |
p. 391 |
| Agence France-Presse : Tour de France |
p. 415 |
| Afterword : the future |
p. 439 |
| About the Flash journalists |
p. 445 |
| Preloaders |
p. 459 |
| Loading SWFs into SWFs |
p. 465 |
| Video in Flash |
p. 471 |
| Flash reserved words list |
p. 479 |
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