Motion Tweens and Shape Tweens

Similarities

1. They are both forms of Tweens. 
2. They both make objects move.
3. Both are used in animation.
4. Both change color.
5. Both can be copied and applied to something else.
6. Both fill in frames for you when you determine a start and end position.
7. Both change size.
8. Both change color.
9. Both are used in Flash.
10. Both are shown in the timeline.

Differences

1. In motion tweens, you change how an object looks. In shape tweens, you make an object become something else.
2. In shape tweens you can use guides.
3. They have different names.
4. One appears as a blue bar in the timeline, and one appears as a green bar.
5. When you use a shape tween, the object doesn't need to be a symbol.

Compare and Contrast- Animation Then to Flash

When animation started, every frame had to be drawn out individually where as in flash, you can create a motion tween and the frames would be filled in. In flash you can add on to a picture on a frame, but when animation began, you had to draw each individual frame by hand and start all over to make the images move. The time it takes to make an animation has also changed because now we can animate 2 hour movies, but then it would take a month to create a film that lasted a couple of minutes.
Animation today is also similar to animation when it began because we still use frames. We also start by drawing individual frames by hand when we create a storyboard just like people used to before.

How To Create a Motion Tween

When you use flash to create a motion tween, the first step is to create an object. After you have created your object, you use the selector tool to draw a box around it. This will select all the parts of the object. Next you go to your menu bar and select Insert, then select Motion Tween. You have created a motion tween!
The bar at the bottom of the screen of the screen with the white squares is called your timeline and the blue highlighted part is the motion tween.

Revelations

After learning more about copyrights I found out that, although Sarah didn't register her copyright, the copyright still belongs to her. I also learned that copyrights don't expire until 70 years after the creator or holder of the copyright is dead, so Ryan was wrong about Sarah's copyright expiring. Sarah should contact a lawyer so she can be advised about what to do because she might have to prove that she was the original creator of the song lyrics and she will have to file a law suit so that she can get credit for the song and get paid what she deserves.

Copyright Vocabulary

Copyright- A claim that is given to you by law so that something you have created is protected from plagiarism.
Fair Use- a standard of how much of a copyrighted item you can use without permission.
First Sale Doctrine- allows a purchaser to have control over the document.
Intellectual Property- intangible property that is a product of the imagination cannot be copyrighted
Patent- you have the only right to manufacture an invention for a limited time, after which you can file for a renewal or other people will be able to produce it.
Permission- having consent to remake or reproduce copyrighted material in some other work.
Phonorecords- new technology that allows us to keep our music in digital format so that we can use it on modern devices.
Plagiarism- to take credit for someone's work that isn't your own.
Public Domain- works whose copyright has expired.
Trademark-  the symbol used to identify an item. The little apple for Apple.

That Thing About Copyrights

I think Brian has a right to write a song and have the credits be in his name because Sarah had given him the poem earlier and because she had not copyrighted the poem. If Sarah has questions, I think she should contact a lawyer and ask for advice, but I think Brian had a right to rewrite the poem into a song without her consent and without paying her royalties.