This best-selling book on Director has been updated to cover Director's many new features. The CD-ROM includes useful tutorials and scripts to get readers up and running with the software. This edition covers features new to this latest release, including new design and authoring tools and one-click publishing of Shockwave content.

Using interactive projects and numerous bandw images as learning aids, this book shows intermediate users how to create animations and transition effects; edit and play sounds for movies; create and apply behaviors with and without scripting; trigger animation and sound feedback to prompt user actions; create movies which branch to different sections depending on user input; synchronize animations with digital video; and use Shockwave to prepare movies for the Web. The CD-ROM contains all the files needed to work through the lessons plus sample files. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Completely revised and updated with new graphics, this book covers Director features new to version X, for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. Macromedia Director is the program of choice for a wide variety of creative professionals who use it to produce Web content, CD/DVD titles and games, interactive advertising pieces, kiosks, and business presentations. It features easy-to-use drag-and drop behaviors and a powerful object-oriented scripting language called Lingo.

8 1/2 is among the greatest films of one of the masters of Italian cinema, Federico Fellini. This is the first English translation of the dialogue and the first complete continuity script of 8 1/2. This richly comic work, long recognized as the most important expression of the director's views about himself and his art, communicates to its viewers an understanding of the processes of filmmaking itself. 8 1/2 is the story of a director's efforts to make a film; it depicts the conditions of creativity, the struggle waged between the individual and the world, a struggle that finally makes some sense out of life and art.

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.