Idea and development of banner..

After numerous hours of thinking of a seasonal product to advertise for my banner, ive decided to advertise a leaf blower. I want to include interactivity with the viewer whereby they have to use the blower to blow away leafs to reveal the name and price of the product.

Ive decided to go for a 468x60 size banner for this one (making this the smaller one of the two), as i feel this will work best with the design idea. My idea is, once the leafs are completely blown away (as of yet, im not sure how much control the user has of this and will look into this), the banner will then go on to list the features of the product in greater detail.

I was going to use a known manafacturer for the product, but have decided to make one up. This will involve creating my own brand (logo, name).

Things to do.. Gather and prepare images in photoshop for flash. Images i need; Gravel Background, Leafs, Leaf blower.

Flash tutorials. two lessons so far

Just completed the first 2 tutorials on flash and am so far finding it very helpful as am a newbie to the program. Have experimened with motion tweens and am more confident with working with the timeline and basic tools.



In lesson 2 i created a sparkling water animation using shapes and motion tween animation.

Main things learnt - how to fill a shape with a bitmap file, and how to animate graphic symbols at different times in the timeline.




The motion tween have give me an idea for designing a flash game - a game where the player has to keep their eye on a ball underneath a shot glass (or just a circle) while they move around the screen. The game could include levels where the speed and complecity is increased after each round. Ill look into actionscript for this and try to develop the game..

Things to do..

• Look around for a festive product i can create a banner for


• Start brainstorming ideas for the project. Bannerblog ideas?


• Lesson 3 in the flash tutorial


• Look into flash game idea. Ask David Downes


• Read up database stuff from today

My lessons today..Databases

Today was the first of my database lectures and seminars. We had to implement a database back end for a website associated with a concert venue. The main question that needs to be asked when thinking about setting up a database is

'what do we need to store information about?'. Refer to notes if need to in future.

New pathway..Web

After serious thought, im glad i have swapped to Web design and i can finally get stuck into the new work set. So far 2 new tasks set:

1. make a game in flash (no hand in date)

2.To make web banners for a seasonal product and also a country.

I intend to brainstorm and research some seasonal products tonight. Im going to look on Bannerblog.com for inspiration. I aim to pull my finger out and start blogging everyday about new ideas and new things learnt. Im also learning from 2 new books - Adobe 'classroom in a book' series - Flash and Photoshop cs3 as of tonight..