How to play the Flash Trumpet

Unfortunately I don’t know. I’m currently working on an interpretation of the book "How to play the Trumpet" by supposed jazz legend and trumpet hero Digby Fairweather. No, I'm not interested in learning how to play the trumpet and I'm not suddenly into either jazz music or Flash interaction. You guessed it: it´s another one of those projects.



We were given a random book and have to create either a 90 second motion piece, an interactive screen based piece or a multi-page publication to prove how well we can communicate our personal interpretation of a random book. Makes sense? Good.

The first few parts of the brief were easy ... or no, actually maybe they were tricky for some people.

Der erste Teil der Aufgabe war ja noch einfach ... bzw. nein, vielleicht war´s auch schwer für einige Leute.

[x] Go to the library
[x] find the book which corresponds to the catalogue number you have been given
[x] photocopy the front cover, leaving the photocopier lid open because that makes you an awesome designer

So far, so good. How many people failed here already? We don't know. But now my tutor group talked me into making an interactive Flash game, somewhat similar to Guitar Hero just using a trumpet. This is actually the outcome of both tutorials I attended! No matter how appropriate or inapproriate it is for my interpretation of this 1986 classic book. What has been said was I'd have to take the piss out of Digby Fairweather and I'd have to take the piss out of the sexual inuendos in this book (it´s a book on trumpet playing, inevitably there´s a lot of sucking, blowing and tonguing involved). But worst of all—no matter how little knowledge I have about making such a game!





Help is much appreciated!