Re: FLASH: FlashForward review

[Brian Mays]

Missed some of the posts (unsubscribed while I was out of town at the

conference last week).  Apologies if I go over something that was mentioned

before.  (Anyone got a highlight reel for those of us who suspended Flasher

delivery for 5 days? :-)


>

Tom Green at tgreen17home [dot] com wrote:

>

> > Only one session , sound, went down the toilet simply because the

> > presenters didn't have a clue regarding their audience. ... The session

> was saved

> > when someone came out of the audience and bailed out Linda, who was

> > trying (and failing) to get things back on track.


Heh...I didn't stick around long enough to see the person bail them out, but

I heard quite a bit about it the next morning.

Things got just a WEE bit tense when someone in the audience screamed, "GET

TO THE SOUND!"  What they were showing at first would have been in tune with

a Generator class (if I remember correctly...I'm sketchy on the sound

presentation).


Did we REALLY need to know his teenage son did those graphics? :-)


> > The guy that ranted about the 3-D session missed the point...I will

agree

> it was weak.


I don't think Lynda knew what exactly she was getting...remember how shocked

she was to find out how old Manuel Clements was?  Did you also notice that

was one of the first presentations in the auditorium (that I attended

anyway)

where she stood on stage basically watching over things?  Made it seem as if

she was having second thoughts on having him speak, or as if she felt she

had

to "mother" him through it.  Still, I did enjoy his enthusiasm.


Another dud of a presentation I saw was the Campaigning With Generator

presentation.  It was entertaining seeing the buildup to the site, and then

the creation of a Presidential campaign using an audience volunteer.  But I

was there to learn more about Generator and heard the speaker say, "My

Generator guy gave me this, and it works...I don't know how."  He said that

a

SECOND time, and I decided to catch the tail end of whichever other

presentation was going downstairs.  I'm sure he knew what he was doing, but

if he's reading this, it seemed to me like you didn't.  (That's CONSTRUCTIVE

criticism :-)


> > The double ramp out of Flash 5 ( Conference and Party) was quite well

> > done.


Heh...duly noted.


> > As an educator, the conference gave me a unique opportunity to meet some

> > of the top minds in the business and ask them how they did it.


Joe Sparks!  He was GREAT!  And I liked the guys from OVEN Digital...as

nervous as you could tell they were, they told quite a bit about their

sites'

structures and even how their offices are structured (although the woman

next

to me didn't quite understand their method of project management, I think).


On an aside, I'm looking forward to Josh Ulm's Advanced Flash videos from

Lynda.com


> > The funniest event that occurred was on Monday night. Adobe was handing

> > out copies of Go Live and the mothership had a sign offering the DW3/FW3

> > package to anyone wishing to trade in their Adobe software. You should

> > have been there watching the conference organizers go ballistic and

> > attempting to push through the crowd to rip down the mothership's sign.


I was there...I was too busy trying to breathe in that crowd :-)  Then

nursed

my bruises once I got my copy of GoLive (I, of course, already have

Dreamweaver).  But in the two seconds after I got GoLive I turned around and

saw a Macromedia employee standing on a table with arms full of Dreamweaver

Studios and about 2 dozen GoLive's being thrust into the air like a busy day

on Wall Street.  I ALMOST went over there, then remembered my bruises :-)

But y'know, I had fun!!!!!


> > You

> > can be damn sure, based on the numbers at this one, they will be there

> > in force at future shows.


I hope they'll make the Film Festival an annual event.  That was truly the

highlight of the conference.


Brian Mays



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