My web banner

Banner Idea's:

•  Most of us are gamers
• Final fantasy 7
• WoW
• one person shooters
• older games everyone knows
• mario 
• sonic 
• pacman
• make banner fun
• have a game
• interactive
• A Mario coming in and out of tunnels
• Pacman 
• Pokemon 

In the end I decided to base my banner around pacman because our course is 'interactive media and game art's' and pacman is a game most people are familiar with old or young. Making the whole game would be hard though and I think it would give the feeling were just a game art coerce so I made a simple point and click game instead. This got across the interactive media aspect but not completely so I decided to have three pacman ghosts one for each of the main adobe programs we use.

With help from the references I had I made a quick plan for the banner and the ghosts in photoshop.

I then moved on to making all the components I need in photoshop like the background with the college logo, the text and the ghosts.

After I finished these I imported all the files to flash and set them all up using the codes from the text files until I has a score box that went up by one every time you clicked on any of the ghosts. I then went into each ghost as a movie clip and made it disappear after 20 frames for 20 frames and then go to a random place using math.random between 600 by 100 px . I was happy with this banner but when I had Lee and Aj beta test it I decided I should make it better as it was a bit random, how did they know to click on the ghosts? They also said it was annoying when the ghosts went over the course name or the link to the college website. The ghost's were moving a bit too quick as well and Aj said it was far too easy to click on them.

I decided to have a frame before the game frame with a start button just to make it look better and I cut down on the number of frames inside the ghost's before they disappear to 14 and I narrowed down the area where they appear so it's not over the text or button. I  was originally going to also have a 30 second timer but I don't know how to make one.