Sunday, October 7, 2007

Web Journal #6: Movie


Mr. Woodcock

From the makers of "The Wedding Crashers" comes "Mr. Woodcock", a new movie about overcoming one's past.
 
The website for this movie is flash based and full of one-liners from the movie, several interactive animations, movie trailer, story summary, cast bios, downloads, and a rather odd midget wrestling "game".

Navigation is aligned with a classroom ruler across the center of the page. Since the navigation is bisected by a huge graphic of the main characters, its almost awkward to use at first, but as soon as an item is selected the "ruler-nav" flies to the bottom of the page where it stays until home is selected. A welcome feature is a search box at the top of the page for finding where the movie is playing via zip code (the results open in a separate window).

Layout consists of apparent scenes from the film cut out and composited with graphics depicting childhood memories in thought bubbles.

The only downside I found to the site is the same problem with most flash-based sites... slow download speed on anything but a DSL or better connection and no apparent dial-up option.