Big SpaceShip

Big Spaceship have a immense clients lists from Nike to Sony pictures.

Their one of the leading movie websites designers also creating advertising features e.g games.

Stranger than fiction were the first website i went on by Big Spaceship but leading from that their Bourne Ultimatum, identity, Alfie etc.

The Big Spaceship website is full of information about there work. The website they create are bigger sometimes than the actual movie, working on all genre of movies from horror to comedy.

Each website has the familiar look by using images and narrative which its fills the whole page or not.

Using Big spaceship as the center point i would love to explore this are of web design further.
For my mind map I'm going too show some of big spaceships work and their similarities and differences categories them in to genres.

"Obsessed with emerging technology & addicted to popular culture"

Till now Ive been looking at websites for films, but not really knowing a name to the type of websites i was looking at.

http://www.bigspaceship.com/

I think Interactive Marketing covers it all, my creating a website for a film there putting it out there (online) for viewers to see.

Sometimes it doesn't have to be a whole movie but a online game dedicated to the film

Phone Booth

Like many of ProjectC websites their like a quiz and the user gets the complete small tasks or click on the right button. It create suspence like theyre in control

ProjectC.net

ProjectC.net creates websites for big films such as bourne Ultimatum, italian job, transformers and Jarhead

Unlike the ones ive been looking at these webistes are like mini films in them self, the downside tho is that they do give to much away. Most of them are linear and you get to watch video clips or animted text e.g Jarghead. This makes navigating through the website intriguing as the user has to explore and click on hidden buttons.

Stranger than fiction

Created by Big spaceship

Stranger than fiction is a light hearted comedy. Using clear images, quotes and voice overs

Each charcters page is personalised with a little animation which is rather cute and humourous.

The site is very easy to navigate through using a menu in the corner

World Trade Centre

World trade Centre even tho its done by the same designer, neoganda. It so very different to Smokin aces. This website has to pretray a real life experince. Which it does using imagery and music. It is heart felt and seems to move in slow motion using fade in /outs. I like it for this reason because it tactful but also lets the user experince the film but doesnt really let them engage as its more informational .

Smoking aces

The smokin aces website was created by Neoganda

I like the look and feel of this webiste, its contents centre around introducing the characters in the story. Using rollovers and very little txt but adding voice overs you get to experince the movie. The main theme of the webiste is card games/ casino. Adding a card game into the webiste engages the user that little bit more

Whats my interests and ambition !!?!?!?

Movies.....

Not to go totally of the subject of interactive flash sites but im jus changing the subject area.
Everyone loves a good movie and before you see one, you watch the trailer or check out the website. And depending if the story line or characters grab you then you watch the film. A website for a film should represent everythin about the movie and take you into it, letting you the feel and experince the movie. You should be transported to a different world without seeing the actual movie.

My New title - Interactive flash websites for Movies

Words- Movies, navigation, experince, World, interactive, feel,look,

Preloaded

Preloaded specialises in digital media creating new and entertaing experince for the user. Such as staying alive. The image below is a screen shot of there first site it wasnt meant to be up for very long but it uses the title as it menu which i found interesting and it made a good use of space. You can immediatly tell what the company is all about which is interaction




There new site http://www.preloaded.com/index.php

Preloaded interview http://www.thefwa.com/?app=profiles&id=630

Educational Animations

Animation is widely used nowadays in educational purposes. We learn quicker and more affectively when we see what were being told.

Websites which are interactive and allow the user to explore to find out things are better at informing then a how to guide or step by step instructions e.g eHow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_animation

My idea that came from this is what about creating a website(or a day to day guide) that linked you to a sutiable flash website where you could get the advice or how to guide you needed.

Staying alive - Mtv Me

Mtv Me is a game for helping students survie uni life. It is based on point and click interaction
Like education is everywhere it is light hearted and an interactive world , but you can personalise ur character. I t gives you small task to do like tidying your room so you can go out but then as you go along it gives personal advice

The title??

After speaking to Ian at the seminar i relised i had to chose between ecommerce and Educational

The educational one has a wider scope and it interest me alot more. Ive been lookin at flash websites and found a few websites that are help guides to student life
e.g Education is everywhere and stay alive
They are both interactive piece which allows the user to explore by interacting with diferent elements of student life.

But i can go afew ways, i could also look at the way interaction and animation is used in learning and for children in schools. And how they learn better when they see something in action and they can engage it instead of jus reading the facts.

But what interests me more is not the actual content but the way the user explores and find out the information whether its entering a interactive world or using a menu of some kind like education is everywhere.

FWA

FWA is a website which showcases award winning flash websites. I search for sites which were educational or ecommerce which is my focus point of interactive design research.

Education is Everywhere

'Education is everywhere' was created by push interactive

Its a guide for college and uni students to surving school
The webiste using a well reconised children toy for navigating through
the guide. Which i like because it shows nothing has to be too
complicated to work well.

I found this site on FWA