Business Communication Final

Exam Review
Fall 2014
Ms. Rock
 Communication
• Defined: the sending and interpreting of
messages
• What is the purpose of it?
 Examples of internal barriers to
communication
• Fatigue
• Disinterest
• Poor listening skills
• Past experiences with the client, business, etc.
• Outside problems (family, friends, etc.)
• Shyness
Multicultural American Workplace
• Business overseas?
• Internet?
• Growing population?
• Immigration?
 Cross-cultural situations
• A disagreement between an employee and his
supervisor
• A receptionist speaks slowly to client who has
heavy accent
• Isolated coworker not being invited to lunch
• People saying goodbye at the end of the work
day
 Communication
• With people with diverse backgrounds
– Simple and uncomplicated
– Complicated and unsatisfying
– Difficult and frustrating
– Challenging and rewarding
 Cultural differences and barriers to
communication
• Why?
– People can’t speak english
– People speak different languages
– Cultural difference prevent an effective exchange
of information
– People use different technology
 Movie Maker
• What can you do?
– Import video/pics
– Add effects
– Add titles
– Add credits
 Movie Maker
• To view your movie in another program, you
have to
– Save the movie
– Finish the movie
– Export the movie
– Transfer the movie
 Movie Maker
• How do you arrange pics or videos?
– Choose show Timeline
– Choose show Storyboard
 Graphics
• Building blocks for developing exciting and
informative multimedia documents,
presentations, and publications
 Vector graphics
• Lines
• Curves
 Pixels
• Colored dots
 Fireworks Panels
• Layers
• Edit
• Optimize
• Properties
• File
 Panel
• Floating window that contains commands,
options, palettes, menus, and other features
 Point
• Measurement of height of text
 Why export?
• To change the file format so you can use it in
other programs
 Fireworks
• Native File
– .png
 Flash
• A multimedia platform used to add animation,
video, and interactivity to webpages
 Stage
• Where you place the content for animations in
Flash
 Timeline
• Area on screen where you work with layers
and frames to alter your movie’s content and
animation
 Default frame rate in Flash
• 10
• 12
• 24
• 8
 Properties panel (Flash)
• Indicates what settings are being used for
objects and allows you to change those
settings
 Object
• Any item placed on a frame that has not been
converted to a graphic, button, or movie clip
 Graphics
• These are objects that have been converted so
that you can use the same image a number of
times in a movie. You can also use this to do
fade effects, rotation effects, and flip effects
 Button
• These are objects that have been designed to
be a interactive object. You create buttons so
that action scripts can be used to control
others or events in the movie.
 Movie Clip
• This is an animation within a movie that
contains it’s own timeline (a movie within a
movie). They can be used repeatedly within
the main movie.
 Action Script
• A programming language inside Flash that
allows you to take your movie to the next
level. They are used to control the flow of the
movie, control events in a movie, and allow
for user interaction with your movie.
 Export into .swf format so…
• That Flash files can be used on the Web.
 True or False ?
• The canvas color in Flash can be set to multiple colors
– False
• It is important to decide your canvas size for your Flash
movie before beginning the project
– True
• Objects do not go on keyframes
– False
• The stacking order of viewing objects in Flash is decided by
the order of the layers
– True
• Objects on the top layer do not cover objects on layers
below
– False
 Matching
• Photo • GIF Websnap 256
• Animation • Animated GIF
• Button • JPEG – Better Quality
• Text
• Image represented by • Photo
storing a value for each • Text
dot (pixel) in the image • Vector
• The action of turning a • Animation
feature or command on
and off • Bitmap
• Graphics in which the • Toggle
image is created using
lines and curves defined
by mathematical formulas
• Graphics that display
motion
 • Used to change the color of an
object to a different color
• Allows you to make objects move
in a more random or non-straight
• Masking path
• Used to move symbols from one
• Guide layer point to another
• Fading • Most tedious way to create
animations; done by inserting
• Motion tween numerous keyframes and
changing the object on the
• Shape tween frames
• Frame by frame • Changes from one shape to
another shape
animation
• Used to make a symbol disappear
or reappear from view
• A way to partially hide an image
in the layer immediately below it