Monday, October 8, 2007

References for War Reporter







The above website is the main source for my website's photo gallery. Go there and have a overall look on all images regarding on Iraq war.









As we can see from its home page, it is a website about war because of the picture of a soldier and the title itself. This mode is the one that I am looking for. The typefont should be Stencil font. Overall, it applies masking effects.




From here, we can see that it does not only concentrate on one war story, there are many war stories, up to 7 war stories. Inside each story, it contains three labels which is coverage, reporting and technology, where user can further look in. The information is very well organized, user can easily select the story that he/she interested to go through.




Finally, this website has many information that are very useful for my assignment. Like the video camera and camera that a war reporter uses to report during the war, some details also included. One thing bad about it is that we cannot right-click to download the picture and copy paste the text. We can only print screen.















The background is using picture and add in effects from Photoshop. The body text is seperated by gradiant grey, it gives a effective contrast. It applies very nice shadow and good sound effect.





It rotate the background but using the same picture while changing to another page. The arrangement of the navigation bar is clear and simple. The spacing with navigation and the background are well done.









From the body text, we can see that some part of the background of the text are using transparency. It does not have to be a box with colour fill in, we can play with the capacity.







The art diretion of using picture with graphic is the direction that I want to appy for my website. I can study the style and make a little aninimation, but not following the entire color mode. The colour mode is not suitable for my occupation.