Director Considerations

To make the product there are several considerations as the Director/Lingo programmer for the project. Here is what I've found out so far set out as Q&A's-

Q: Changing the image inside the 'screen' (where menus/video will display) in the mobile phone 'interface'.
A:The phone interface will be part of the Background, running through entire Movie, with the images playing within the screen area as a movie along the timeline. Use 'put the loc of sprite 1' etc, in message window to get exact positioning to align all images/videos correctly inside the screen.

Q:Will we need a new menu in between every scene in our interactive video? (as how can we make the menu play scene 2 after you've seen scene 1 from same option on same menu?)
A:Yes, we'll make identical menus in between each scene (by making a template and then applying relavant clips and links for each of the 8 scenes). There may be a Lingo command to make one menu go to all scenes (some complex 'if, then, else') but htis is too advanced for us at this stage(I'll try to gigure it out if time) However, product will download quicker with separate menus as we will have 8 linked movies.

Q:'Typing' effect with Lingo
A:Director- Behaviour Inspector - Libray - Text - Typwriter,

Q:Connecting multiple .dcr movies
A:Save each .dcr movie in the dswmedia folder (and don't move!). Then links .dcr's using Absolute addresses (rather than just filename.dcr). Use the code-

gotoNetMovie http://etc- exact path to linked movie

Q:How to create scrolling effect for the menu with Lingo?
A:I'm using a separate image for each item in menu, with scrolling buttons going either back or next using a sprite script-

go to the frame +1

&

go to the frame -1

with each frame covered by the frame script-

go to the frame