Overview
Challenge:
With Cinemassacre being the mainstay that it continues to be after so many years, providing film buffs, monster movie lovers, and fellow video game nerds hours of entertainment and a welcoming into a social circle of common interests, the website where most of their content lives, cinemassacre.com, is due a huge overhaul. One of the main issues it has is that it is very ‘archival’ in form, as opposed to being more interactive and dynamic for users.
The homepage isn’t too bad, it serves its purpose by providing you with a video that introduces the site to new visitors, their most recent videos, and an active blog.
However, the same could not be said for each categorical page, which only has a larger window at the top for the most recent video released, and then scrolling down further brings you to the same four columns of square boxes organized to the bottom of the page. Though each box presents itself with nice visuals, all of which are separated evenly and easy to scan through at a glance, I believe it to be difficult to get very far at all down the list when it starts to become a monotonous process of scrolling and looking at the same thing.
With this company producing hundreds, if not thousands of videos/films throughout the years, it is beneficial to have a website that can not only nicely organize all of it, but give users more of a reason to use that site as opposed to immediately going to YouTube because their user interface is more appealing.
Objective:
The goal of this project is to give Cinemassacre Productions a significant update to the design of their website, one that is appealing enough to warrant a visit simply to enjoy being there and entertained at the same time, as opposed to just sifting through their archives for a few minutes only to leave soon after. The aesthetic of the website as it currently is I believe is already on the right track, so I don’t think it needs too much altering, just a nice visual facelift to fit with modern times. The color scheme especially works because it’s based off of the logo and it matches the content of the site. My main focus will be on making it more visually interesting, better organized, and user friendly.