These instructions will enable you to tell your story in a basic format. Before you can even consider adding animations to your project, you will need to build a place for your story and pictures to go.

Those places are scenes and layers.

In order to tell your story you will need to use a combination of both scenes and layers

• A scene will consist of a portion of the text of your story and one of your pictures
• There must be a minimum of 8 scenes in your story.
• You can decide if you want the picture to show up first, or after the pictures.

If these elements are not showing, activate them by going to the Window menu and activate them.

You must understand a few tems before you start working in Flash.

They are:

• The Stage (The part that is shown on the internet)
• Tools (The things you work with to create the project)
• Properties (Provides information about elements on the stage)
• Layers (Portions of scenes that have elements like text, drawing, and animaitons on them)
• Scenes (Tells you what scene you are working on, can add or delete scenes)

• F5 Empty Frame
• F6 New KeyFrame
• F7 Empty KeyFram
• F8 Convert To Symbol

• Find the "scene" menu under the Window
• Create your scenes by clicking the plus sign at the bottom of the scene palate:
• Do this over and over until you have 8 scenes, name scene 8 "Title" by double clicking on it. Do this now even if you have a few more scenes or a few less.
• Next, create the layers in the scenes. Click on the button that looks like this:
• Each scene will need a minimum of two layers.
• Name the first layer for scene 1: Text1 or Picture1. Do this by double clicking on the layer names to change them
• Name the second layer for scene 1: Text2 or Picture2. Do this for all layers involved.
• Layers are what will contain your pictures and your text and you will be able to fade between the two.

Stage: The area that shows up on the Internet

Timeline:

Frames: The little boxes in the timeline that can containg pictures or text or nothing.

Keyframes: A small circle contained in a frame for where something is drawn. (A dark circle means something is there, a clear circle, like above, is empty.)

Motion Tweens: Computer generated animations that allow text and images to move, change shape, and do other things on your stage.

Adding animations to your scenes can be done only if you are willing to spend the time to learn a little bit about how Flash works. It takes a little practice and is a lot of fun. You just need to be patient and be open to learn new things.

Fading Between Pictures and Text...

For scene1 do the following

Decide which will appear first, the text or the picture