I am so excited about this term! Instead of doing the mash up we were meant to (the teachers thought it would be to much work), we are now creating a website for a movie and a poster. I'm really excited about this since I've never done anything like this before.
At the beginning of the lesson, Mr Powell showed us three websites for three different films. Those films were American Pie, Twilight - New Moon and Ice Age 3. America Pie had the America flag colours (red, white and blue) and most of the website was white. Twilight had dark colours since it was about vampires and werewolves. Ice Age 3 had one main image and the sides were black. Out of all of the websites, I really liked the Ice Age one. I liked it because it was full of life and I really liked the way the website was set out.
For the rest of the lesson, I looked and anaylised three different websites. We then had to answer the following questions about each website.
1. The elements of design, (colour/colour scheme, tone, shape, space, movement, sound etc);
2. The principles of design (composition, balance, emphasis, proportion, repetition, abstraction etc);
3. The overall feel developed for each film’s promotional materials (is it clean, crisp and bright or dark, moody and grungy)?;
4. Whether there are a variety of promotional posters for the film?
5. How the website is laid out. (Look at the menu system and how information or promotional materials are accessed);
6. The website’s effectiveness in appealing to an intended target audience and identify who the target audience is;
7. What you like/dislike about the promotional material.
(I will post my observations in another post)
