My Final Piece

During this term I have been working on a website for Broken Arrow and a poster for the movie as well. Mr Powell showed us how to use iWeb and showed us demonstrations on how to use/create things on iWeb. I spent quite a bit of time working on both my website as well as the poster and learnt many new skills during this unit of work.

Since I had never used iWeb, I had to spend quite a lot of time experimenting with the program trying to figure everything out. I managed to teach myself new things and Mr Powell taught us techniques we could use as well.
In my website I have several sections.
Home Page: Poster of Broken Arrow, release date and link to ‘Broken Arrow’ (What the movie is about)

Broken Arrow: A picture from the movie and a short paragraph about what the movie is about

Cast and Crew: Pictures of the two main characters and a link to their websites
List of characters and who plays them
A list of the Crew (multicoloured – important red/blue – unimportant)

Air Force Gallery: A group of pictures from the movie

Trailer: The Broken Arrow Trailer

Extras: My poster that I created and my blog address

Many of my ideas for my website came from looking at other websites, mainly movie websites. I liked a lot of there ideas, set-up (layer out of the website), colours and what they had on the website itself.

I decided that the main colours I would use on my website would be black, red, white and blue. Broken Arrow is a movie that takes place in an air force base and their mission is to protect America hence the reason I decided to use the American flag colours (blue, red and white). The reason I chose to have black as a background was because I believe it best suited the movie as well as the photos I used on my website. As mentioned before, this movie is set in the air force so for the font I decided to use PortagoITC TT. This was a really good font because it looked like something you would see in the air force.

A major problem that I faced in this unit of work was the fact that I had a limited time limit and I had never used iWeb before. This meant I needed to work harder then I had in other projects and use some of my own time to finish this project. I’m glad that I did this because it helped me become better at using iWeb and I was able to get my project done on time.

Overall I am very happy with both my website and my poster. I have spent quite a lot of time working on both of these projects and I hope that all my hard work pays off.

Part A

Part A:
Twilight Official Website
Twilight is about a girl called Bella who falls in love with a vampire. A forbidden relationship forms, which attracts million of viewers worldwide. The Twilight website is set-up quite well. Since the movie is about vampires, the background image has dull, dark and the background image also has trees.

On the Twilight website the links available are home, about the film, trailer, gallery, downloads, music, books and official store.

The Home Page is quite good as it advertise the name of the film as well other highlights and a seprate link to the downloads section. We people first enter the Twilight website, they visit this page and to me it draws the attention of the view. This is because the website has a picture of Edward and Jacob meaning girls who are fans of either character will visit more of the website wanting to see more of that character or more about the film. This is where the link, about the film comes into play.

About the Film: It has a short paragraph on what the film is about, a list of who the cast and crew are. This part of the website also has the same background as the home page.

Trailer/Video: This area has every single trailer released for the Twilight movie and it has the same background as the home page.
Gallery: The gallery has the same background as the home page and it has a bunch of photos available to view and download.

Downloads: In this area people are able to download posters, wallpapers, Twilight e-cards, IM icons and widgets.

Music: Links off to another site.

Books: Links off to another site.

Official Store: Links off to another site.

Overall, the Twilight website has been set out in a very good way and the website has used the appropriate colours. It has a dull, dark simple background and the font is a fancy handwriting almost. This all adds to popular of the site as it really suits the movie. I am quite please with how they have presented this website and I think that the website will continue to get better as the movies become more popular.

Wild Hogs Official Website
Wild Hogs is a hilarious comedy film about four guys going on a road trip.

Home: On the home page, it shows people the DVD cover, the link to watch the trailer, competitions and advertise other movies as well.

About the DVD: It shows a picture from a part in the film and a paragraph on what the film is about. When you click on the link, a piece of audio plays from the film.

Video: In the video area, it has four different videos. The first video is the trailer, the second is clips/sections from the movie, the third is bonus clips and the last is bloopers. Each video has a different background (the background is a clip from the movie).

Gallery: The gallery has several pictures from the film as well as posters. When you click on the link, a piece of audio plays from the film.

Downloads: In the downloads part, you can choose between three links, wallpapers, buddy icons and screensavers. When you click on the link, a piece of audio plays from the film.

Games: I love this section! This area is games based on the movies. There are five games to play and each one of them are heaps of fun to play! When you click on the link, a piece of audio plays from the film.

Order now: Links to another site

Overall, the Wild Hogs website is a very good website. It portrays the movie really well and it is aimed at a large age group since a wide range of ages watched the movie. It has several different backgrounds but at the top of the website it has the four characters and that remain on each area of the website.

The Dark Knight Official Website
The Dark Knight is one of the most popular movies of all time. It is an action thriller and has lots of things blowing up.

About the DVD: It has a section on what the movie is about, the special features on blu-ray and special edition features. The background for this page is three cards, mainly the joker card.

Cast and Crew: It has a list of the main character and the production crew. The background is a building with the batman symbol on fire.

Video: Has the official trailer and the background is Batman himself.

Gallery: Has images from the movie and the background is that of that joker.

Extras: In the extras section, you can download, buy and see the sponsors for the movie.

Overall, the Dark Knight Website is very well done. It has dull colours (black, gray and dark blue) and very good images for the background. Each one of the images ties into the movie somehow and the website it aimed at young teenagers and most adults.