Interactive Brochure Project Reflection

     Last time we left off we made a brochure in InDesign. In this project we used the same brochure to create an interactive brochure using InDesign. An interactive brochure is different from a regular brochure since it has animations and includes things the user can interact with such as hyperlinks. The way we added these interactive feature was to go to Window/Interactive and explore the many interactive features, but we primarily worked with Animation and Hyperlink under the Interative submenu. My brochure included shapes that were the background to white text and my brochure had a primarily white background besides those shapes. So I wanted to add an animation which would initially hide the shade and then reveal it, revealing the text hidden in the white background in the process. Exploring through the animations I found that Fade In, Fly from Top/Bottom/Left/Right, and Appear had the effect I was looking for. The shapes were bullet like so I chose Fly from and the direction chosen was in accordance to the direction the bullet was facing. My brochure included pictures which I envisioned would slowly appear after all the text would appear. The animation I chose for this effect was Appear, very fittingly. I changed the duration to be longer since it would slow down the time it took for the pictures to appear. Last but not least was the front page. The title was meant to have a dramatic effect I increased how dramatic it was through animation. My title consisted of three lines and I used Fly in from top to load the title. However, I changed the duration so it would be more faster, almost like if it slamed down. I didn't want my name to have this effect so I chose Fade In, since it would load subtly. Now were the hyperlinks which were very easy. I included a sources section which had links. I made those links clickable by highlighting them, right clicking, and choosing hyperlink from URL. To end it off I added a page transition (flip) and that was that.