Creating My Film and Website

Today i have been putting my mini film together, i have moved my chosen images and videos into i-movie HD. I put two special effects on both my images and my videos, they are sepia and old film. I have also chosen to overlay them all with a sound effect of a projector. Rather then a slide show i wanted a silent movie so i inserted an overlays in-between each image so all the images and videos flow.

When i had created my video i imported it into a flash document, in which i put my designing a website into action. I created buttons using images of cupcakes that i had taken and used an elaborate gold frame to present my video in. I have decided to display my video in a website format, with a link up menu to a home page and also my 'how to'. My initial idea was to simply have my video fed through a projector and projected either onto a worn wall or onto a tree trunk, this is something i could later look at if i wanted to display it. Below is what a tree projection may look like.

Another idea i was having was on the home page of a simple website having three pink flamingos swinging and wen you clicked on them it took you to a different page or cupcakes swinging on string but then i thought id keep it quite simple and classic to match my "oldie worldy" film. Which is why i kept it to a gold frame.

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Below are some screen shoots of my actual website pages:

This is the first button-Home, this is were all the other buttons come back to.

This is the second button-About, a small blurb scrolls down through the gold frame.

This is the third button- Movie, my movie with soundtrack plays when this page is opened.

First of all all three of the pages had the three buttons on, so for instances from page two you could go to page three.  But i had a few problems because both the second and third frame both had music or sounds in.  I decide that as part of (part b) i would make the decision and direct the buttons the way in which i wanted it to be watched 

so; from page 1  you can go to page 2 or 3.

      from page 2 you can only return to page 1.

      from page 3 you can only return to page 1.

  
After deleting the extra buttons from page two and three i realised that my system worked quite well.  I am very pleased with how my flash document turned out.

Script-Page 2 of Flash

I read through the first chapter of the classic Alice in Wonderland story (by Lewis Carrol) i took a quote which i really liked i thought it fitted in well with my film, in which i wanted the story to be left up to the audiences imagination. So this is what i wrote...

It is difficult to explain in words what my film is trying to exactly say, and therefore it is up to my audience to interpret it in their own way. The photos and videos acquire a life of their own and virtually take over the direction, leaving the imagination to decide were the story goes.

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

So to understand this film, does this mean you are also mad...?