My Website is as follows:
Enter Site page = movie poster with ENTER SITE written at the top
Home = movie poster, tagline, links to: trailer, characters, photos and quiz
Trailer = trailer and synopsis
Characters = links to: BB, Boo, Flying Cow and Pig, Bendy Man, Creator
Creator page = 'Why BB', link to blog
Photos = two albums: BB's Domain, BB's Adventure
BB's Domain= album with photos of BB in her house
BB's Adventure = album with photos of BB on the journey to the beach
Quiz = short five question quiz on 'A Day at the Beach' all answers can be found around website
And that's approximately five weeks of work :)
I just realised
You can get to anything on my website within three clicks!
Say you wanted to view Boo's profile
Home > Characters > Boo
Wow I didn't realise until today! This is great!
Say you wanted to view Boo's profile
Home > Characters > Boo
Wow I didn't realise until today! This is great!
My trailer
My trailer is about 1 minute long. It features the track 'We Speak No Americano' by Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup. I feel that this soundtrack suits the trailer because of the upbeat rhythm and the PERFECT ending! Right when the trailer ends, the song stops right before the chorus. The track is also in a different language and it adds to the foreign-ness of BB's world.
My trailer features two animated scenes extracted from the movie. The first is BB in Boo's room, asking whether Boo wants to join her on a trip to the beach. The second is the first scene of the movie where BB is created. I like the scene in Boo's room because the audience gets a glimpse of two characters and the way they communicate. It also shows a beach and a sleepy Boo in thought bubbles. I think the scene where 'BB is born' is appropriate because the audience gets to see a close up of BB's face. They also see the phrase 'BB is Born' as she rolls out. The trailer stops with the audience intrigued as to who BB is, as not a lot of information is revealed in this trailer. It's exactly how I wanted it to be.
When researching trailers, I found that there was quite a bit of use of words; mainly quotes and intriguing phrases as well as rhetorical questions. I added phrases like 'A world where inanimate objects become animated' and also added a few narcisstic quotes. The trailer looks authentic because I also added 'this trailer has been approved for all audiences' picture which is in front of all trailers! I used all those elements to make it look authentic.
Overall, I believe my trailer is one of the strengths of my website because of the reasons stated above.
My trailer features two animated scenes extracted from the movie. The first is BB in Boo's room, asking whether Boo wants to join her on a trip to the beach. The second is the first scene of the movie where BB is created. I like the scene in Boo's room because the audience gets a glimpse of two characters and the way they communicate. It also shows a beach and a sleepy Boo in thought bubbles. I think the scene where 'BB is born' is appropriate because the audience gets to see a close up of BB's face. They also see the phrase 'BB is Born' as she rolls out. The trailer stops with the audience intrigued as to who BB is, as not a lot of information is revealed in this trailer. It's exactly how I wanted it to be.
When researching trailers, I found that there was quite a bit of use of words; mainly quotes and intriguing phrases as well as rhetorical questions. I added phrases like 'A world where inanimate objects become animated' and also added a few narcisstic quotes. The trailer looks authentic because I also added 'this trailer has been approved for all audiences' picture which is in front of all trailers! I used all those elements to make it look authentic.
Overall, I believe my trailer is one of the strengths of my website because of the reasons stated above.
Evaluation
I believe my website was to the best of my abilities in the period of the five weeks we had to complete the assignment. I really like:
- My quiz. I think it was an original idea and it was well executed. It took a while to come up with the questions, make the hyperlinks, create screenshots of pictures, make individual pages, rename them so I wouldn't get mixed up, and finally, create a congratulations screen. I believe my quiz is one of the strong points in my website.
- My trailer. I love it! It's perfect. I really like how the music and trailer stop at a climatic point and it all comes together beautifully!
I don't really like:
- My synopsis... It's not as detailed as I would've liked. It was really good on my previous website but unfortunately, it got deleted.
- The repetition of icons. The home icon appears on almost every page on the website. Also, the character icons are the same as the icons on the home page.
If I had more time, I would:
- Create different home page buttons for variety
- Change the character icons so they would not be the same as the ones on the home page
- Create a custom layout
- Add more pictures!
- Add more questions on the quiz (maybe make another one?)
- Maybe make another game (if I have enough time)
- More movie posters (and improve them!)
- Better synopsis
Overall this has been a really fun term but it got stressful towards the end. Oh well, at least I learnt the importance of time management!
Over the weeks...
On Thursday (the original due date for the assignment) I handed in my website. I was the eighth (my lucky number!!) in the class to do so. I took a laptop home on wednesday night to work on my assignment because last time I almost completed it, the computer froze and the rainbow pinwheel of doom came up... I was really sad because my website was looking really good and my character profiles and synopsis vanished :( I guess I'm kind of glad that the iWeb didn't save because if it did I wouldn't have taken a laptop home to improve my website! Now it's just perfect in every way shape and form (well perfect for me anyway) my old website was certainly not to the best of my abilities. I'm quite happy now with my work and am even happier to have all this weight off my shoulders. I spent most of week 4 doing the trailer, as it kept playing strangely and I had to somehow fix it. I *finally* finished it in the first lesson of week 5 and moved onto finishing my website with the ideas I had in the first few weeks. I began adding hyperlinks so the website comes together smoothly. With the help of photoshop, I finished making the poster for the home page. It's basically just BB about to jump into the water the moment the 'rain' comes. I really like the picture because the audience doesn't know what will happen to BB next. I decided to make a second poster. I made this one more mysterious, by having a close up of BB's domain. The words 'coming soon' are written on the doors of the house and the on the side it says 'BB + BOO' to indicate who lives there. I quite like this poster as it is intriguing and mysterious. I made it with photoshop and it was quite simple to do.