Website Inspiration

I mainly took inspiration from The Blair Witch Project and Sinister websites, I looked at their conventions which was mainly user interactivity. For example, looking at videos, examining images and movie soundtrack. I adhered to this as best as possible for my target audience. I will discuss similar concepts I have taken. The first is the missing poster that is used for TBWP. This was created so that it increases user interactivity as web 2.0 is mainly about that. It adds realism and gives a sense of the target audience being involved in the search.

Below, I made a Extras page just like the TBWP and Sinister websites. You can see the Missing poster. This was simply achieved by making a blank document in Photoshop, used the gradient tool to create that grainy, old grey look so that it connotates the passage of time and realism. I will want my target audience to think it's as real as possible. I also de-saturated the colour from the cast's image to connotate the enigma and make the target audience think "What has actually happened?"


For my extras page, I also considered conventions which were used in the features page on the Sinister website. Such as the "Sinister News", I took inspiration from this and made the option for the target audience to contract the website (which is another convention) it also allows interactivity. So I keep a consistent house style of allowing the target audience to take part in something as opposed to just viewing text and images. I use the same organisational layout on the Sinister website so that the interactive extras are easily accessible and I use plain white text which allows easy navigation.

Follow up from this, the Sinister website contains the trailer on a separate page. Most websites I have looked at usually house the trailer on a separate or home page. 

Below, I contain a 30 second trailer which I created in post-production. I adhered to the conventions of using the main trailer on the home page and a 30 second trailer on a separate page. The target audience can also examine footage that was uncovered from the police's investigation after discovering the little girl's (elizabeth) body. This idea was taken from TBWP's website as they have pieces of evidence they can examine to perhaps uncover anything.

It's also conventional to create a synopsis page. Bellow I have taken inspiration from this and made a basic one, like Sinister.

Finally, I created a gallery. Instead of cluttering the page up with images, Wix allowed the option to present them in a slideshow. I believe this is more interactive as you're obviously clicking the arrows to access certain images. Sinister does this too.