Flash Professional 8 Advanced: ActionScript

Course Description : 

This excellent Flash Professional 8 Advanced: ActionScript course will help you to unleash your creative potential with advanced tutorials on the industry’s most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites. Learners of this Flash Professional 8 course will learn scripting basics and then dive into how ActionScript works and how and where to include it in your applications. This fantastic Flash Professional 8 course is taught by an expert instructor who has years of experience, and heaps of insider tips and tricks to share with you!

Our learning material is available to students 24/7 anywhere in the world, so it’s extremely convenient. These intensive online courses are open to everyone, as long as you have an interest in the topic! We provide world-class learning led by IAP, so you can be assured that the material is high quality, accurate and up-to-date.

What skills will I gain?

• Expand your skills beyond the basics of Flash 8 Professional with interactive lessons designed to broaden your Flash skills set.
• Tackle the advanced capabilities of ActionScript for looping movie clips, playing sounds, and creating menu buttons.
• Learn how to create compelling 2D animations and take video where it has never gone before.

Meet the instructor:

John Ulliman has been working in interactive digital media since 1985 starting out his career on cutting edge applications for computer modelling and animation in the Aerospace industry with a number of companies, including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. He started his own studio, On The Wave Visual Communications in 1991 providing 2D and 3D graphics and animations for print, video and the web. He has consulted for many software firms in the industry, including Apple, Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft, AutoDesk, and Alias Wavefront.

John has been teaching ever since he first picked up a computer, initially on hardware and programming languages, then on technical CAD software, and currently on all the products he uses to make animation magic work. He currently offers training on products for creating 2D and 3D artwork, assembling it into animations and interactive environments, as well as products which help him edit and produce the final work – whether that might be video, TV, CD-ROM, web or print.

John is an Adobe Certified Expert and an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Director, Flash Video and Flash Mobile environment. He only provides training on software products that he actually uses in production, with the intention to bring as much practical experience into his classes as possible.

Course outline:

Section 01 – Exploring Actionscript

• Module 1: Getting Started
• Module 2: Actionscript Syntax & Structure
• Module 3: Text & Form Handling
• Module 4: Working On External Data
• Module 5: Animating With Actionscript

Section 02 – Putting ActionScript to Work

• Module 1: Making Flash Website Structures
• Module 2: Building a Basic Game
• Module 3: More Game Structures
• Module 4: Controlling Video with Actionscript
• Module 5: Putting It All Together

What are the requirements?

• You must be 16 or over
• You should have a basic understanding of English, Maths and ICT
• You will need a computer or tablet with internet connection (or access to one)

How will I be assessed?

• You will have one assignment. Pass mark is 65%.
• You will only need to pay £19 for assessment.
• You will receive the results within 72 hours of submittal, and will be sent a certificate in 7-14 days.

What Certification am I going to receive?

Those who successfully pass this course will be awarded a Flash Professional 8 Advanced: ActionScript certificate. Anyone eligible for certification will receive a free e-certificate, and printed certificate.

What careers can I get with this qualification?

This excellent Flash Professional 8 Advanced: ActionScript course will qualify you to be a Graphic Designer. As a Graphic Designer you can work on a freelance basis or as part of an organisation. The average salary of a Graphic Designer in the UK is £29,276, and this will go up with experience (payscale.com). With this course you could fulfil any of the following roles:

• Animator
• Graphic Designer
• Web Developer
• Web Designer