Initial Website idea's and designs

When planning our website we deconstructed several existing film websites such as 'This is England' and 'London to Brighton'.

The 'London To Brighton' website was inspiration for our initial website idea because of the following features:

• Music form the film plays as you enter the website which is a heavy, ominous drone.
• The website is very similar to the poster and consists mainly of images as opposed to writing.
• There is a rolling bar along the top of the website which lists several reviews from newspapers, celebrities in the media and film critic websites.
• Along with the rolling bar, there are also 4 awards which the film has won, highlighting the quality of the film.
• Each photo is the link to a page, when the visitor scrolls over the photo the header above the title changes to the relevant title page

When creating our initial website we used similar idea's to that of the 'London to Brighton' website.

We love the idea of using photo's as the links to each page, however we didn't like how squared the photo's were and the shape and position of them.

Similarly we were unable to add the text bar which changed each time the viewer scrolled over the photo. In this case, we were limited by the technology available to us. Because of this, we scrapped this website idea and moved onto the next one. 

This website idea became our final submitted piece.

Features in our final website which still match to our main influence of 'London to Brighton' are :

• Reviews of newspapers and film critic websites
• An award highlighting the quality of the film
• The ident's for the companies which produced the film.

However, some features are not the same as the 'London to Brighton' website. We decided to use tabs for the links to other pages as it was clearer to read and because the technology was limiting. We did not include the fine print from our film trailer as it was shown at the end of the trailer on the main page. We also decided we didn't want a plain background and decided to use a photo which we took, initially for a poster design idea.

Sound Examples

This is the soundtrack to This is England. It is simple as only one instrument is used. The music is sombre and melancholic. The music is used as a motif throughout the film to signify traumatic moments in the narrative, it also acts as contrapuntal sound over the top of violence. We first considered using music similar to this however for a trailer we thought it was too morose and might give too much of the narrative away.

This music is an acoustic version of a mainstream piece of music by skrillex. This music is simple but effective. The use of guitar only as a soundtrack works well with a Social realism film as the films depict real life and everyday characters and this kind of music does not distract from the onscreen action and does not glorify working class life. 

    

After looking at many social realism trailers, such as somers town, Fishtank and The kid we noticed the music was primarily acoustic guitar or mainstream  music from the time, for example in This is England. As we cannot use copyrighted music we decided to use an original acoustic music. This piece is simple yet memorable, for these reasons we feel this would make a suitable soundtrack for our trailer.