Re: Suggestions/Critique Welcome

[Ron Stephens]

>www.blocktrading.com/new/blockhistory.swf

Hi Jennifer


Congratulations on your first movie - you've done a lot more with Flash 

than I have


Anyway you asked for comments - I wouldn't comment on the technical stuff 

so here are my impressions as a viewer from the paste-up era.


It took a little time to down load on my slow modem (14.4), and stalled 

first time at the clock face when connection dropped to 900 bytes! Better 

connection second time and took 3 minutes.


I let it run again to see if it play faster from the cache - it did, but 

I found certain sections still paused for too long - this broke up the 

overall flow, and in some parts it seemed a little disjointed - was this 

my machine? (Mac 7500/100, NN3, Flash 3 plug in and 48.8Mb of 176Mb 

allocated to NN). 


The worst pauses were right at the beginning, then later at the clock 

face which seemed to hang about for ever. Then one or two pauses during 

the time line sequence - this part was the most succesful I thought and 

is a really good use of Flash! Here I noticed that 1987(?) was over 1982 

at the end.


The introductory image sequence in the circle was also really nice, and 

seemed to be exactly what Marcantonio has been asking about, but I 

noticed a clipped area at the top of the circle. Did you create the 

circle in Flash or bring it in from Freehand or similar?


When you introduced the green text I thought that this may have 

benefitted from coming in more gradually in sections (as you do on the 

time line) to lead the viewer through the statements. There is an awful 

ot of text to take in at once and here a longer time could have helped. 

But there was none of the rough edges that I have noticed when viewing 

others (the high quality settings thing I guess).


When you zoomed the text out, and also the clock face, I thought that 

they should have continued to fill the entire screen area to provide a 

better cut/link in the sequence. Also, part way through some text appears 

in the centre of the clock face.


This may seem a lot of criticism but it is intended to be constructive - 

and you did ask - anyway you've now shamed me into doing something myself 

that I can put up and stop lurking on the fringes.


Keep up the good work!


- and nice piano playing - yours?




Ron

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