George Lucas Flash Site

Flash Interactive movie

This project was a love and hate relationship for me. I chose to do an interactive site on the director and producer George Lucas. This was a good opportunity for me to talk learn about a director whose films have influenced the film industry. These films have given me the inspiration to get involved in visual effects software.

I knew from the start of this project what I wanted to showcase. The design of the interface was the challenging part of the brief. I did a lot of research on flash websites for usability and design. After series of ideas I settled for a storyboard layout for the interface design. I got this idea from watching the behind the scenes documentary of Star Wars and caught a glimpse of an old storyboard scene which was a perfect layout for the flash movie.

Now that I have all the elements that I needed. It was learning how to use the flash software to covey the information. This was difficult for me as I only have a basic understanding of flash, but complexity of this movie required a lot of action scripting which I don’t understand.

For this project I’ve have had to study flash for myself, studying many late nights till the early hours of the morning to get this project completed. Due to this project I have learnt how to do basic action scripting and extended my previous knowledge of the flash software. Although i struggled with the programming side of the project i was really impressed in what i acheived with the final product.