Website update

I've been working on my trailer lately. I plan on finishing it next lesson. However, I also have to add sound. Thats the problem... I cannot find a suitable song. I might use 'We Speak No Americano' by Yolanda b cool & Dcup. I prefer using instrumental songs because words kind of ruin the meaning of the movie, the idea of surrealism. 'We Speak No Americano' has got limited lyrics, and it is in a different language! Perfect! (I don't think many people understand Spanish in St Hilda's) So, it will help ensure that the viewers identify BB's world as surrealistic. So, I'll edit the song and make it shorter. So far, my website is going good. I am writing the synopsis now. My *current* website has faced no problems yet so I'm very happy. Hopefully it won't because I can't afford to lose anything right now. I'll keep this blog updated on my progress. I've also messed around with colours and shapes on my blog. I've made an awesome colourful frame! It's pretty cool seeing what you can do with iWeb.

Last week, I spent a lesson working on my website. I saved it... and Mr Powell closed it. I panicked (I did an awesome frame effect!) and unfortunately, the file could not be relocated. Just what I needed. So, I had to start over. I am choosing a black background for all my pages because I think it makes my movie stand out. And also, I like white writing on a black background. Right now, I'm working on my trailer. It's quite frustrating to do, because I need to use imovie and my soundtrack has gone! Anyway, my trailer is going to be about 30 seconds long and it will feature a climax. The climax will of course, be where BB is standing at the edge of the basin. The question the audience leaves with will be 'what will happen next? Will BB be ok?' This is the ideal reaction. Next lesson, I hope to have completed my trailer and I will move onto making my pages and writing my synopsis. I will also need to use 'Grab' (a program in which you can screen shot and then save the image) to insert pictures from my film onto the website. It's due in week 6... I think I'll have it done by then! (hopefully)

My website!

Today I started making my website. Mr Powell showed me how to make trailers. You have to cut them in Quicktime to make the trailer. I'm going to do it next lesson. Today I have made a few pages including my trailer page (I have to do my trailer too!) my character profile main, BB's profile, Boo's profile, my profile and home. I have a good basic idea on what my website will look like. I think a character profile page would be pretty cool. The page will have a brief summary on each character: BB, Boo, bendy man, flying cow and pig. It will also have a picture in place of the scuba diving man... I am planning to use 'grab' to take snapshots from my film to use in the icon for the character that people click to they can view it. I will then include a bigger picture in the actualy profile. I haven't added hyperlinks yet but plan to in the near future. My trailer page will have a brief synopsis under it and I've made a random frame around it... it looks pretty. The trailer won't be very big in size or it won't load fast and it will pixelate! The home page will be very simple. It will have a poster on it and may be a sentence or two about the movie. I think 'BB + backpack = adventure' is a good summary of my movie as the backpack is vital for BB's adventure! Oh also, I've decided to make BB a girl instead of 'gender reamains mysterious' because it gets annoying having to repeat BB over and over again. It's visually unappealing and it will get annoying reading it. Anyway, I hope to finish my trailer and website soon :)

Websites!

This term we are doing websites. We're creating a website for our movie. He taught us the 3 click rule: if the person cannot get to the page they want within three clicks, they will leave the page. He also said that we read from left to right, and showed us examples of movie websites. The first thing we noticed was what was on the top and on the left. Our eyes are used to reading left to right, top to bottom. So, our eyes have focused onto the content there. This is why titles are usually at the top, just to put forward an example.

This information will greatly help me for making my website!