Webpage Analysis

Today, our group began more detailed research on the webpage that we have to produce as part of our brief. To deduce what the common themes were on webpagesfrom our genre of film, I annotated a few- pages for Cherrybomb, 4321 and Shank.


These are printscreens of the webpages for the aforementioned films. I have added annotations on what I considered to be relevant aspects of the pages.




(Click to view larger versions of the images and read the annotations I have made.)

Common threads throughout the pages were:

Links to social networking sites- Facebook, Twitter etc

- For the purpose of spreading information about the film- it encourages fans of the film to show their support for it and in turn, the page is more likely to be viewed by friends of the fans and so on.

A prominent photograph of the actors (the same one used on the posters)

- Cross-marketing; the same photo is used on all of the advertising material to make it more well known and ingrained into the minds of film fans. In several cases, the most famous actor (e.g. Noel Clark in the 4321 webpage) is the most prominent as big stars have a built-in fanbase.

Soundtrack listings

- The Cherrybomb webpage lacks this (perhaps due to being low-budget and not being able to afford licensing for music) but both the Shank and 4321 pages have a page with a complete list of songs featured in the movie. The purpose of this is that fans of the music featured in the film may be inspired to watch it based on it's inclusion of something they already like.