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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Analyse project requirements
   • Determine the necessary dynamic functionality of the animation to be included inside a web or other interactive document
   • Determine the appropriate language to achieve that functionality
   • Determine and evaluate current requirements for the specified application
2. Design animations
   • Design animations to enhance the web page, and to meet requirements
   • Design animations to meet the specifications for sound and interactive functions
   • Design animations that will add to the overall professionalism, or entertainment value, of an application
3. Produce animations
   • Produce animations for web pages and other media
   • Research and experiment with a range of animation techniques for enhancing the user experience
   • Produce web animations for a website that enhance the overall professionalism or entertainment value of the website
   • Test and debug scripts against the required functionality and repeat until correct
4. Publish animations
   • Publish the animations in an acceptable format
   • Incorporate the animations into a hypertext markup language (HTML) page
   • Complete the documentation and submit it to the appropriate person for approval

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

design and create interactive animation, following current industry standards

design and create interactive animation to enhance the professionalism and the entertainment value of a website.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

explain the internet technology used to inform choice of the scripting type

describe the principles of analysis and design

explain programming control structures and object-oriented programming, including:

buttons

scripting to go to uniform resource locators (URLs)

scripting to jump to different parts of the animation

scripting using the programming language

explain web-animation programming concepts, including:

acceptable formats for importing assets

component libraries

cross-browser issues

importing and exporting libraries

inserting published work to a hypertext markup language (HTML) or to an extensible hypertext markup language (XHTML) page

internet animation player statistics

masking

movements and automated movements

publishing finished work in an acceptable web format

shape animation and manipulation

symbols

text manipulation

transparencies.

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