Select a fairy tale and put your own twist on it in a Flash movie. Keep it clean and non-violent (at the very least, no spurting blood or dismemberment). You will have two possible ending scenes with buttons that take you to each one.

Before you start creating your movie, outline your scenes in a storyboard (see sample storyboard). Describe where buttons will be and where each one links to, where you will have music and/or sound effects, as well as what will happen in each scene.

• Stage Size – 550 x 400 or 640 x 480
• Change frames per second to 15 fps
• At least 6 scenes (title scene, story, choice, ending #1, ending #2, credits). Of course, you can have more scenes!
  • Title scene should have the title of your fairy tale and your name (example: The Story of Cinderella by Your Name)
  • Story may take multiple scenes; should tell story both through words and illustrations
  • "Choice" scene should have buttons that link to the two ending scenes
  • Ending #1 scene should have a button that links back to the choice scene and a button that links to the Credits scene
  • Ending #2 scene should have a button that links back to the choice scene and a button that links to the Credits scene
  • Credits scene(s) should list sources of images, music and/or sound effects and the original fairytale's author (or other source)
  • Credits scene should have a button that links back to the beginning scene
• Name all layers and scenes
• A sound clip (30 seconds or less) that plays only during the scene it is in
• A short sound effect on a button (in the "Down" frame)
• A motion tween
• A shape tween
• Multiple instances of symbols -- plan your movie so you can use the same symbol in different parts of the story
• Buttons:
  • on title scene to start fairytale
  • to alternate ending scenes
  • on each ending scene to return to scene where viewer selects the ending
  • on each ending scene to go to Credits
  • on the Credits scene to start the movie again
• ActionScripts needed to make buttons work
• Final movie published as .fla, .swf, and .html files and copied to my Turn-in folder. Save as lastname_fairytale

To go for the highest grade, record yourself and/or people narrating your fairy tale. For instance, you might have one person telling the story and someone else doing the character voices.

If you need help thinking of any fairy tales, you can use the links below to find a variety of fairy tales and/or folk tales. Look through them and pick one that you want to use. You will still need to come up with an alternate ending.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/

http://hca.gilead.org.il/
Hans Christian Andersen

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World

http://www.childrenstory.com/tales/

http://www.cln.org/themes/fairytales.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/
Grimm Fairy Tales