Wednesday, 28 November 2007

Friends Interactive Site Analysis

http://www.friendsontv.co.uk/


Media types used

Rollover buttons highlighted by change in colour and font size



Rollover pictures – highlighted by box appearing

Scroll bars



Animations – choices to skip

Video clips – user control



Moving stills

Picture slide shows

Downloads

Interactive games - costume design

360 images

Animated loading pages


Audio

The Friends soundtrack is played throughout however the user is given the choice to turn off the music at any point from the navigation menu

There are ‘Pings’ and ‘clicks’ to let the user know a button has been highlighted

When drop down menu appears – sound effect hitting the wall

Animal sound effects when on the bio page when rollover certain animal characters


Spatial awareness

The main frame works well to focus attention of the user and the black frame highlights this however it is aligned slightly to the left rather than central, which I found off putting

There are clear sections separated with the use of colour difference and clear white border lines

The writing does not cover pictures and generally has own section however if it does cover an image it does not matter as it is a faded out picture being used for background purposes only.

Drop down menu always come centre which is good as clear however does cover the image or text by doing so


Genre

The genre of the site is to advetise and inform. By informing you of the characters and showing clips of there habbits, in a narrative sense is shows how everyone has there traits and the strength of friendship. This is reflected in the theme tune by the phrase ‘i’ll be there for you’.


Disadvantages

Sometimes the navigation is a little hard to follow as have to always go back to the drop down menu rather than use a navigational button

The video clips are often small so hard to view and would look better in a higher quality

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