Order instructions
Your final project in this class is required to be more extensive than the weekly lab projects and will be worth twice as many points as previous lab assignments. Your project should demonstrate a significant application of technical elements and also demonstrate originality and creativity. Your project will be judged based on the instructor’s assessment of the amount of creative energy required in its production. A famous quote is that: creativity is 1/3 inspiration and 2/3 perspiration. Students may work individually or in partners on this project. Choices for projects are:
- Development of a Flash movie or
- Development of a creative, informative web site (several linked pages produced by yourself). All web projects (meaning all the pages you produce) must reside on your Towson University user account. No pages residing on other servers will be accepted. Take a look at how to implement some advanced web page features (sound, animation, etc.) .
The project should deliver a coherent message or story. The best projects tend to result from a choice that relates to interests of the students working on the project.
| Some ideas for suitable projects | |
| Web Projects | Flash Projects |
| My home town, city, country | Seasons or changing of seasons |
| My car, pet, family | Anything that moves, e.g. car chases, air plane flights |
| Information pages about your major | Natures scenes, e.g. a day at the beach, thunderstorms |
| Information pages about your favorite sports | Sports scenes |
| Travel brochure about a destination of your choice | Information movie about your major |
And the grading for Lab 15 will be much more stringent than the weekly labs. Check this handout to see how you’ll be graded for Lab 15.
o Websites: you’ll need an original landing page (home page) with 3 additional original pages at a minimum for a minimal total of four original pages. Pay attention to the overall content, navigation, look and feel and aesthetics of the pages; and make good use of graphics, sounds, embedded videos, fonts and page backgrounds as needed and as appropriate.
o Flash Movies: your movie will need to be longer, fancier, glitzier, with more scenes (4 scenes minimum) and more animation and sounds than a routine weekly lab. Pay attention to the overall content, flow, look and feel and aesthetics of the scenes; and make good use of graphics, sounds, and fonts as needed and as appropriate.
| Grading | ||
| Area | Grading Criteria | Points Possible |
| Basic Content | Project shows evidence of understanding of basic Flash or FrontPage concepts | 40 |
| Complexity | Project shows evidence of ability to use sufficient degree of complex Flash or FrontPage concepts (check out the advanced concepts listed above) | 40 |
| Multimedia | Project shows sufficient use of multimedia (text, graphics, animation, video, sound, etc.) | 40 |
| Appearance | Project reflects overall theme and is appealing to the target audience | 40 |
| Creativity/Originality | Project is exciting and original | 40 |
| Total Points | 200 | |
Submitting your project:
Attach in MS-Word format, the following file:
- Project author(s) – It is required to list all authors
- Title of your project
- Project Notes which explain several of the following items:
- Why you chose the subject area
- The overall message you were trying to convey
- The artistic effect you were trying to create
- Some choices you made regarding composition and design
- Some choices you made regarding technical (computer) issues
- If you created a Web Project:
- provide your Home Page URL
- link your project to your home page with a link clearly stating that this is your term project, for example: click here to see my term project (similar to the recipe page we created)
- Refer back to Labs 10 & 12 for reminders on how your URL is configured and how to reset your Tiger File Permissions.
- If you created a Flash Project:
- Include your movie as an attachment to the e-mail in .swf format . . . or . . .
- Add your Term Project .swf file to your tigerweb home page and send me the URL to your home page:
- Copy the .sfw version of your Lab15 flash file into your tigerweb folder;
- Add a link to your home page that reads “COSC 109 Final Term Project”
- In a fresh browser window, make certain the link from your home page to your .swf file works properly
- Send me the URL to your home page.
(See the instructions from the Lab 10 and 12 handouts for some refreshers on the above procedures.)
