I'd like to make something for my second project that I can use past the constraints of this class. I'm considering how I might make a Flash project that would fit into my portfolio. Perhaps that would make the whole concept of my portfolio more interesting (on the whole). I'm not sure I would want to do the whole thing in Flash, but perhaps if a couple sections were set up with Flash interaction it would be a nice presentation of the material that I intend to include.

If I could set up the Flash program to help create a navigational system for my portfolio, I think that would be best. If I did end up making my whole portfolio in Flash, would it require that my "documents" be photographs? Or would I still use links to externally hosted pages I've uploaded to the web? (I would probably as PDFs and not .doc or .rtf documents so that I'm less likely to be plagiarized.) I could include sound and some small, but interesting visual effects to make my portfolio presentation more polished and unique. I think if I did this that my portfolio would truly become my own and stand out among the hundreds created in just this year.

I will need to learn more about creating connections between frames and making a user-friendly set-up on the screen. I will also need to learn more about technical aspects like uploading the Flash document to the web so that I may show it to others. These would be minor goals for this project. I believe that the larger goals would pertain to my abilities in achieving the results that I have projected. This project would involve more of everything that I did in the first project—more writing for the screens, more coding to make things work, more technical aspects to make things smoother and attractive, and more creativity to make this unique project really take off.