Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Making the Website

On Wix, I chose a default layout to help me sculpt the website accordingly. I chose this red one because the large picture of the man was what we wanted the website to have - a large picture of the killer to denote the central character of SOS.

This is what the default layout looked like:


I added pages by clicking on the Pages button on the left panel. From here I was able to edit existing pages and their names, as well as add new pages. I did not want to add too many pages as the main focus should be on the homepage as this is where the trailer is. I added 3 new pages: The Sins (explaining to gist of the plot), Gallery (a convention for film websites) and Experience the Redemption (page to buy tickets).

I named the pages 'The Sins' and 'Experience the Redemption' because I felt that personalised the website to fit in with SOS's plot. Oculus (which I deconstructed here) has a similar feature, it has a page called 'See Your Evil' where you can buy tickets.


I also sorted out which social media buttons to include, I chose the most popular social networking websites - Facebook, Twitter, RSS (as that it was most film websites have links to) and Tumblr.

I placed the trailer at the left so it would not cover the demon's face and put the social media buttons towards the bottom of page as this is a convention of film websites.

Then I went into Photoshop and created the quotes from critics and created the slideshow of comments. I placed the 4 stars on either side of the slideshow to make it look presentable and consistent, and the 5 stars underneath - as seen on the Filth DVD cover.

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