Multimedia Websites

Websites:

http://www.cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com/

http://www.gamespot.com/

http://www.sandisk.com/

            The website of the new movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, contains some very interesting elements of multimedia that serve to grab the viewer’s attention immediately. The website contains information about the movie such as plotline, characters, flash games, and general advertisement about the film. The site’s intended audience is primarily young children.

The site offers a wide array of gimmicks and activities to captivate the interest of young children, as there are screens filled with interactive objects for kids to play with, and even games to keep children coming back for more. Multimedia objects that the site offers are loading screens with mobile items, audio, flash games, movie clips, and clips of animated characters moving in the foreground. All of the multimedia objects contributed to the web site’s effectiveness greatly, as its allure towards children between the ages of 3 and 12 is great, due to all of the interaction the multimedia provides to hold their attention spans.

The website of GameSpot has a large variety of multimedia objects, although not as obtrusive as the site of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, still holds enough to grab your attention. The site’s content includes news for upcoming video games, review of past ones, forums for its members to discuss upon, and video feed of major previews or conventions that are relevant to the site. The site’s intended audiences are teens young adults, as most of its content is related to pop culture.

The multimedia objects in the site include sliding frames, rollover popup buttons, and embedded video clips in pages that play automatically. These all contribute to the site’s appeal by filling pages with animated images which serve to compact information into bright, attention capturing slides. The overall appeal of this site is the wide range of information it contains, all of which is packaged with some sort of multimedia to enliven the pages of the site.

SanDisk’s company’s website may look very plain and simple, but underneath its uncluttered exterior lies a multitude of multimedia objects. The site’s content is based upon advertising and selling its products, especially its best selling USB flash memory drives. The intended audiences it aims to captivate are college students, business men, and just about everyone who owns a computer.

The multimedia objects upon this website keep the pages simple and clean, uncluttered to the point where the site seems devoid of much information. However, the scrolls down bars conceal a wide array of options and pages to look to, and its sliding images contain a link to its corresponding advertised product. It also contains embedded videos for further advertisement of its products on its site, willing the viewer to purchase its items. The multimedia objects in this site perform their job well as they give the site a straightforward and gimmick free feel, appealing to the more serious adults who own computers.
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