Approaching our prototype proposal

So our prototype proposal presentation is coming up on Monday. Here is a brief overview of where my project is. I have almost completed the 'Then and Now' section of the project. This section shows old images of Limerick. There is a slider bar along the side of each image and when the user slides the bar down, a modern day version of that image will appear.  Here is a description of what I mean. The opacity bar is halfway down showing Limerick as it was and is now.

Here is the opacity ActionScript code I used to achieve this. 

The next piece I have accomplished is implementing the flash game. My original idea was to have the user follow frank on his adventure from Ireland to Scotland to America. After some research I did not find any information about him being in Scotland, as one of the tour guides had said. I did not want to use false information, so I changed the game around. The idea now is that a map shows up with pointers on sections of the world that Frank had connections to in Angelas Ashes. When you hit the pointer it zooms in on that country and more regional pointers will appear. When you hit these pointers information blocks will appear about Franks connection to the area. The pointer prototype I have at the moment is New York.

The next section, which realistically I have quite a lot of work to do on is 'Today's news'. This section will showcase some news articles from the time of Franks youth. I also hope to implement some entertainment new such as the top songs a the time but ideas are still to be sought for this section. 

Overall I have a large degree of the design work done. I do not have much programming work done and I have yet to think of what programming work can be implemented to increase my grade. 

My backups for my project files include. Google Drive, 2 extra memory sticks, my laptop and a college computer.