Design Exploration: Persepolis

Persepolis is a 2007 Animated movie based on the life of Marijane Satrapi. It was first a set of two autobiographical Graphic novels, telling the story of her life during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. I can go on for day about how great the story is, but this is more about the films website and the style the fil was made.

The site is done in a simple time line format. You basically drag your mouse either left of right to move the site around. It's neat because the site follows the same theme of the movie where it's all kind of a memory, so things in the back ground are blurry at first and then eventually come into focus.

The site itself is pretty simple in practice, but the designers did a great job is keeping with the mood of the film. One of those simple ideas is the movement of the back ground gradually moving slower as the "thoughts" are further away. It just sticks out to me more, because we were talking about that in class a couple of weeks ago.
The music in the background is not as annoying as some sites tends to be at times, and if it is you can always turn it off. All in all the site is pretty easy to navigate, and give you a lot of insight into the film.
http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/persepolis/main.html

The site was created by Halo Media, which has done a couple of other movie websites which are fun to look at as well. I'm pretty sure they are a newer company, as their homepage is still in the process of being completed.

I'm not positive but it looks like the film was made in Flash or at least another program very similar to it. The animation is very true to the graphic novel style, so it seems that making this in flash would be pretty "easy" for a team with a lot of talent. You can check out a the trailer over here

thanks
Eric