I chose to do my blog discovery blog on the site www.wechoosethemoon.org
The site was created to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the "Apollo 11" lunar landing. The site documents eleven stages of the mission from the launch to landing on the moon's surface.
During the mission there is audio playing in the background documenting the mission as if it were currently happening. There are counters on the outside area of the screen counting to launch, mission end time ect. Each stage is timed to start a movie clip showing what the next part of the mission was like till the next stage is reached. While waiting in the stages it is possible to start mini video clips and view photo collections related to the time of the mission that is currently happening by click buttons on the still view of the mission progress. Its pretty awesome!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
www.v5design.com
www.v5design.com/ this website is using many flash functions.
The front page is using movie clip with butterfly. when I click one butterfly, butterfly fry away.
The choice of sound truck matches the background environment well and give relaxing mood to the visitor.
I like the portfolio page, because its organized well and fast download a data.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Sean Wilkinson- Blog 2: Studio Study
Www.StrawberryFrog.com
For my second blog I chose to showcase the work of design studio, StrawberryFrog. With a resume that includes: Frito Lay, Fosters, Mitsubishi, Heineken, Xerox and Ikea, StrawberryFrog has created numerous sites that are not only very flash heavy, but that are also incredibly creative. When you first open the site, there is a flash animation of a frog, and a very polished way to chose which country you are coming from. The transition between entering the site and browsing is very fluid and the use of the scroll bar in the portfolio menu is very ascetically pleasing.
To sell Japanese sneakers, StrawberryFrog created a website called "Made In Japan" where pictures from the internet of various people enjoying Japan are posted in the form of the product they are trying to sell; in this case sneakers. The site is fun to mess around with and is very creative.
When creating print-ads for IKEA, StrawberryFrog took a rather interesting route by making a sort of nonsensical ad, featuring people dressed as mice with the tagline "Don't Be Grey," while the mice are in IKEA furnished rooms. The idea itself is utterly ridiculous, but it does leave a mark on the viewer and it will come back to the viewer's head, which is one of the main goals of such marketing.
Something else I enjoyed about StrawberryFrog's work is just how simple it is. The Flash portions are very well utilized but the sites are never too complicated. When creating a website for Foster's, the Australian beer, instead of creating something that requires a great deal of time due to interactivity, they created a very simple, but well done site.
StrawberryFrog is an excellent studio, that has created numerous amazing flash sites utilizing their creativity and simplicity. I highly recommend checking out their portfolio and watching some of their commercials; all which are highly entertaining.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Blog Exploration #2: "Coraline"
http://www.coraline.com/
This Flash site was created to promote the animated film called "Coraline".Once you've enter the official site it has an interactive background showing the house and set in which the movies takes places. It also has a border menu at the bottom of the screen where you can click to view the trailer, learn about the film and cast,the DVD, or view a map of the places on the set you can navigate through.
On the interactive background you can click and go into to either, the Garden, the Well, Coraline's apartment, the upstairs apartment, or the downstairs apartment where the other character in the film live. In each of these places there are object that animate where you can click and view some short films that discuss the making of "Coraline" or little games you can play.
When you enter into the garden it allows you to create your own flower which I thought was really cute. When you go into the well there are many different behind-the-scenes pictures and a few short clips you can look at along the well's wall.
Inside Coraline's apartment you can view her bedroom, living room, her father's study,and the "Other Mother's Workshop". In each of these places are little interesting clips of interactive objects like Coraline's photo in her bedroom or the piano in her father's study. In the "Other Mother's Workshop" you can go and build a doll face of your own using your own photo.
Inside the apartment underneath Coraline's is where Mrs.Forcible and Mrs. Spink live, two old women who ,I believe, use to be actresses. In their home you can view the theatre where you can see some more clips from the making of the movie and trailers.
In the apartment above Coraline is Mr. Bobinsky and his mouse circus.In there you can view a movie clip from the movie.
There is a lot more to do in this website than what I've named. It's a very well thought out website and it really made me what to see the movie, which I did and I love it.
http://www.coraline.com/
This Flash site was created to promote the animated film called "Coraline".Once you've enter the official site it has an interactive background showing the house and set in which the movies takes places. It also has a border menu at the bottom of the screen where you can click to view the trailer, learn about the film and cast,the DVD, or view a map of the places on the set you can navigate through.
On the interactive background you can click and go into to either, the Garden, the Well, Coraline's apartment, the upstairs apartment, or the downstairs apartment where the other character in the film live. In each of these places there are object that animate where you can click and view some short films that discuss the making of "Coraline" or little games you can play.
When you enter into the garden it allows you to create your own flower which I thought was really cute. When you go into the well there are many different behind-the-scenes pictures and a few short clips you can look at along the well's wall.
Inside Coraline's apartment you can view her bedroom, living room, her father's study,and the "Other Mother's Workshop". In each of these places are little interesting clips of interactive objects like Coraline's photo in her bedroom or the piano in her father's study. In the "Other Mother's Workshop" you can go and build a doll face of your own using your own photo.
Inside the apartment underneath Coraline's is where Mrs.Forcible and Mrs. Spink live, two old women who ,I believe, use to be actresses. In their home you can view the theatre where you can see some more clips from the making of the movie and trailers.
In the apartment above Coraline is Mr. Bobinsky and his mouse circus.In there you can view a movie clip from the movie.
There is a lot more to do in this website than what I've named. It's a very well thought out website and it really made me what to see the movie, which I did and I love it.
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