A-Film

Having a movie site myself I was keen to use this website and was impressed with the graphical look of the top level pages. Obviously users of smaller screens (possibly even Web TV) have to scroll down to see the content and as said it less like a website and more like an experience. The links at the very top are too small or hard to read and the email and home icons in my opinion do not fit.

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Rock on...

I gave it an 8 only because of the page weight. Beautiful work, just took forever to download it.

I love the design but more how they use JavaScript to do what most people use Flash for. I love when something as simple as this works so well.

Very nice idea and mostly done well, although some of the implementation isnt great.

Its little things like the unequal line-height on the what_we_do page and as said some links are too small.

But 10/10 for originality and it is bookmarked in my nice sites folder. :)

First the negative side. There is not sufficient amount of lighting through the darkness. For a site dedicated to movies, one would expect to see clearly visible lighting effects shining through. The navigation is not made prominent enough(one could mistake it for normal text), and the last but not least, sheer weight of the site makes it load painfully slowly.

On the positive side, the mouse movement effects pronounced by some fixed design elements, coupled with the dark background gives the site kind of illusory feeling. The site is thus a marvel in that regard, for this effect is rarely seen implemented in websites. Overall though, the design may not be earth-shattering. But what makes it stand out from the crowd is its accentricities; the use of those rarely seen effect that astounds you at first. Well done. My hat is off to the designer.

hmmm ...

good things:

- it's different, quirky and fun

- liquid, in this case, is a bold decision and has been executed well

bad-ish things:

- why the javascript movement thing on the home page? Surely the best tool for this effect is flash with appropriate html alternative content? Especially as we are dealing with aesthetics and not fuctionality or content in this case. You'd get a much smoother effect with flash. The javascript idea would be a good example as a test exercise ...

- I feel a little lost in the design in places - not that intuative

- feels clumsy in places also

Dunno. Hat's off for trying something different. Just feel the execution could have been a bit slicker ...

The shame about this site, for me, is that it could have been so much better than it is. It seems like, for some reason, the designer felt that it needed "thrills and spills" when, in actual fact, it didn't.

Why on earth would I want the homepage to move around with my mouse? What possible benefit could that ever have?

I understand that high-contrast design is the current "must have" but time and again I find myself cursing designers who think that I'm going to appreciate them that much that I want to burn their content onto my retinas. I just don't. Tone the darkness down a little, it helps more than you clearly appreciate.