Week 12
Monday * March 28
Working with movie clips within a complex package in Flash.
- LAB More movie clip symbol exercises: (1) using masks; (2) adding and building self-contained movie clips; (3) building a sliding controller (these are not in the book; no need to bring the bring book and CD this week)
- LECTURE 1 Examples of timelines in journalism.
- LECTURE 2 Data journalism: Concepts and examples.
DUE 9 a.m. Monday (via e-mail): Critique 3
READ Lesson 8 in Adobe Flash CS5 Professional Classroom in a Book (ACiaB).
EXAMINE An in-depth look at USA's religious beliefs, practices (USA Today)
Lots of external data. Lots of dynamic text fields.
Notes * * *
There are numerous different ways to design a timeline for print or for Web. See examples of interactive timeline/chronology graphics.
Supplemental * * *
The files from this week's lab are available for download: CS5 versions | CS4 versions
- Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization, by Geoff McGhee
- Flowing Data, a blog by Nathan Yau
- The growing importance of data journalism, by Alex Howard
- Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data, from ProPublica
- Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee: An article published in The Guardian, Nov. 22, 2010