Holy Rosary-Creative Multimedia Project Development

Project

I would like to put the Gregorian chant into the homepage. I found the chat at this website    https://archive.org/details/GregorianChantMass 

Some of the lists of things to do in the project, and this is nearing the end,  the other lists were much bigger as you can imagine.

The programming figured out on paper before programming it in Flash.

The cross button=home button

Each button glows when you rollover it and looks like they are pressed down too.

First St Francis Button=History, side buttons from that is different rosary beads

Second St Francis Button=Abstracts from Angela’s Ashes

Third St Francis Button=Interactive rosary beads

Fourth St Francis Button=Videos for the mysteries of the rosary

Fifth St Francis Button=Light a candle

Here is the basic code (created in Actionscript) I used to create these dynamic buttons, this needs to be done for each button or you can also create an array. Each button needs an x and a y and a rotation co-ordinate. This has proved to be extremely time consuming. But I am getting there.

import flash.display.SimpleButton;

import flash.events.MouseEvent;

var bead0:SimpleButton = new BeadBtn();

bead0.x = 66;

bead0.y=993;

bead0.rotation=45;

bead0.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickBead0)

addChild(bead0);

function clickBead0(e:MouseEvent) {

trace(“clicked bead0″);

addChild(bead1);

bead0.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickBead0)

}

I want to create an interactive set of rosary beads for my project using action script, these are the first testers. only one bead can be clicked at a time and they all can only be clicked once. When they are clicked a prayer will come up too. The first image with the red circles was the testing I had to do to make sure the actionscript would work. Then the bead on the right was the bead I am going to programme onto the set of beads.

Here is the set of beads with the programmed beads over them. I now have to programme in the cross, the St.Francis beads and the prayers that will come up for each one.

These three are different types of rosary beads I have added to my project. The brown beads were beads found on a ship. The brown rope with squares are called a scapular and the silver one are a single decade of the rosary often used in the earlier days instead of the rosary beads as a cover up as the English did not allow christians use rosary beads, they were also carried by soldiers. In later years they were carried around instead of rosary beads. My Grandfather had a set on his keys. 

  

I named the project “The Holy Rosary”

I brightened up the beads, when you scroll over the buttons they are highlighted with a background glow to show that these are buttons that can be used.

 

After critiquing the project with lecturers I changed the photograph of the the rosary beads and gave them a shadow and brightened them up so they would stand out. I also applied the enlarged medals of St Francis and the cross. I have placed in the chapters of the book. I am trying to decide on the design for the sub menu. For the chapters of the book I think the sub menu could be book pages and I may animate them. I also need to do something for the buttons when you role over them. Maybe a glow.

I have sorted out the videos I recorded them using the developer tool on the internet browser.

Flash has been giving me a lot of errors with the navigation so I watched some more Flash tutorials on Linda. com I have for now sorted that issue and I have another issue. I can’t seem to download video to put into the project. I watched some youtube videos and after that, I used developer tools and tried to download a video from the fatima website it downloaded as a flash file but won’t seem to open and I am getting errors so I have to go back to the drawing board. DIdn’t think I would be getting all these errors at this stage.

There is nothing on the RTE archives for Rosary beads so I have looked on youtube and have emailed people on youtube about using their videos.

There is a video on the RTE archives for the angelus but it is very modern looking, I would have liked an old fashioned or later dated angelus togo with the look and feel of my project. :(

The background is coming together, it has elements from different sources in it.

I had twice as many elements in and played around with them, changed opacity, put in masks, used brushes, erasers, filters, effects. Changed their layout, sze, depth and placement to come to the final design.

Theses are the seperate elements in it…….

There is a paragraph from the “Angelas Ashes” in the page about Rosary beads.”Mrs. Slattery comes in with her rosary beads in her hand. She’s happy to meet Fintan’s new friends and would we like a cheese sandwich. And look at your poor nose, Patrick. She touches his nose with the cross on her rosary beads and says a little prayer. She tells us these rosary beads were blessed by the Pope himself and would stop the flow of the river if requested.”

The Scapular is used as the window where the information will appear.

 An Image of Frank

Image taken from “Angelas Ashes”

A pic of Mary from more of Franks beads.

A candle in the bottom left.

Limerick church in here.

Holy cross in the background.

The holy light in the background.

There is a pic of another cross from a set of Franks beads.

These beads are Franks and are used for navigation for this project.

 More Images of beads, Franks beads for nav. 

Below are images I have looked at for backgrounds. I am currently testing them. I think I am going to use one as the background and one as an overlay.        Here are some slides from my presentation for the ideas, background, colours of my project. If you would like to see full presentation there is a link after the 4 taster slides.    Please click here to see full presentation  ->  Pre Project Presentation  These are elements and colours I am using in my project. I like the sepia tones with hints of colour. I am going to use a the scapular for my window to show the information.  I like this montage and plan to do my background like this using churches in Limerick. Frank, rosary beads, candles, crosses, holy statues and images.  On the left are all of Franks rosary beads, he has many sets of them from different parts of the world.I visited King Johns castle to get some inspiration I really liked the game below, the graphics colours and the game which was you are a judge in feudal times and you have to sort out the disputes of the villagers.  It was fun to play with. I also want to capture my audience and make it fun and or interesting. Love this website and the way people can add pics and their life story to it I just think its unique and has that humanistic approach! <3 :)  So I have started to look at the design of my project, my project is based on the rosary beads Frank Mc Court owned and that are in the museum. I decided to take a few images of beads in B&W, Colour and Sepia to see what works the best. I also tried light/dark  backgrounds, holding them in my hands, in different shape formations.                           http://inspiredm.com/9-top-apps-for-creating-multimedia-content/  This is a parallax website I looked at and the circle expands I am thinking about adding something like this to my project. Hopefully I will be able to do this with Flash.