Artist Response 10

I wanted to talk about another website for my Artist Response that was also made in flash. This site is made to advertise for the Zune Media player. After the loading screen the viewer is greeting with soft sounding music and a vector graphic of the Zune media player radiating from a black background. The site gives the option to click 6 sections: music, pictures, radio, videos, social and podcast. Each link brings the user to a colorful world fill with animation unique to its designated section. The website shifts through different songs as one song ends then another begins. It creates a world the user can travel in while listening to varying genres of music.

The clickable arrow acts like a ship sailing across different worlds.This site is similar to Madeforeachother.com because they share the similarities of multiple characters in an imaginary world. However the viewer traveled throughs the worlds in madeforeach other by scrolling up and down. The zune site goes through the different pages in a format reminiscent to a vortex. All the characters are made out of animated vector graphics. As the viewer moves through space, the characters in the space adjust to the viewer's vantage point while continuing their animation.

Unfortunately, the internet connection and the processing power of the computer can hinder the site's perfomance if it cannot handle all the graphics on the page. There are a lot of things on screen. It is hard to focus on each page because there is so much on screen. Traveling through the site can also be naseating because of it's format and the constant shift in perspective and vantage point.

Overall, it's a cool site with an interesting interface but I believe the site concetrates more on being flashy than informative.