Film Hompages

Film Homepage’s

What do they all have in common ?

They all advertise their product.
Have their film trailer on it.
Look very professional and stylish.
Catch your attention.
Have all the media corporation’s that produced or funded the film at the bottom.
Have the colour scheme in relation for the film.
Are usually very simple, with a massive imagine in the front, often the main character.
Have very professional Flash or Java
Every colour and theme directly linked to film
Positive feedbacks from reviews or ratings
Particular quotes
Motto’s
Adverts
Useful information about film- introducing film
short video clips linking to website

Examples
The Hurt Locker website is a classic“modern” Movie website
LOTS of Flash animation
Big title taking up lots of the screen
Positive feedback quote from a reviewer
Setting the scene of the film. Man in the Bomb suit and a massive set up IED Bombs in the ground in a desert like setting.
Lots of links at the top

Examples
Even in the film ‘THIS IS ENGLAND’, it has all the “classic” homepage examples. It is a totally different world, style and contempory issue compared to ‘The Hurt Locker’, but as a homepage, has major similarities.
Almost every single image or piece of text on the screen is java script or Flash Animation
Big title taking up lots of the screen
Positive feedback quote from a reviewer and Oscar nominations.
Lots of links at the top
Setting the scene of the film. British flags, trailer, quotes and music.

Examples
The film, District 9 came out very recently. This was an incredibly expensive film to make because of the massive amount of money put into the special effects. It is one of the best films in the 21st century for special effects. The website very much demonstrates this by giving the user full control of their website experience by letting them move about the screen. This is a more common technique in Video Game websites such as Halo.
The user can interactive with the website. Moving the mouse left, up, down and right turning the screen into a 360 degree totally free and 3D environment
User can put mouse over there surroundings and an interaction may be available
This website does have all the classic homepage things like links, quotes, sponsors,, big titles, trailers etc … Accept that they are found by the user interacting with the homepage rather than them being directly given to the user