Practise and research Banner

Here is an example of me using banners created from flashvortex.com. I am really using this to look into banners more so its just a little attempt of research.

Banner Ideas

Okay here I am going to roughly jot down ideas and all that stuff needed to make a banner. First of all I need to think of a size for my banner... I am thinking of doing a 120x600 sized banner. I have a few interactive ideas too. I have to not think too much as my flash is limited, maybe a score system with shooting or a drawing system. I cant do a plain banner as that wont do me well.

Now those plans are down i need to think of what kind of style I am going to do. Will it be cartoony? Will it be gory? Will it be child friendly? I need to look into more of this as I go along. I am thinking of a cartoony styled graphics. I might watch some tutorials so I get the hang of it.

Researching Banner sizes

I have been looking at many banner websites and according to my research I have found a few common sizes. Some are roughly 468x60, 60x468. 300x600, any size like this really. I have also found a bit of a preview sheet from Wikipedia aswell. Here is a screenshot.

Web Banner

Here is a banner I have found on google, I think it is bright, nice to look at, which brings your attention to it, the only downside I can see is that it is hard to read and you need to concentrate for it.

Here is another banner which is a nice basic one from the Nintendo website during the 3DS release, got their sponsored characters, a picture of the product and thats all it needs, nice and simple.

Here is another banner which I think could have been a bit brighter, its a sub banner where you type your name in instead, its a good idea but in my opinion its not very good.

With this banner I find it a bit too basic and doesnt work well, plus its original size is too small so when it does get used, it will appear pixelated. Only relys on the lighting effect, i think its too bland.

Animating a dot

Today what we have done is grab a dot and animate it, we have made a clip on flash by increasing the size and putting it on repeat, also with combining it with script, we made it repeat.

Also another thing we have done is added a score system with coding, what we have done is made a text box and added some codes to make whenever you click on the dot, the score increases by one.

var score:Number=0
scoreText.text="SCORE  "+String(score)


dot.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, bananas);


function bananas(event:MouseEvent):void
{
score+=1
scoreText.text="SCORE  "+String(score)
trace("SCORE")
}

Thats the script I have currently used, dot is the object with addEventListener gives it the command while the MouseEvent Click is how to work the code, bananas is there so the whole line follows on to where bananas is used again which means it will have to follow everything else thats listed.

Here in this screenshot I am showing that i have the dot and a text box, you cannot type in the box in action script 3 as it messes up.

In this screenshot I have readied the clip and coded it so the score appears as soon as you start.

As you click on the dot, the score steadily increases by one with each click.