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Analysis of Eclipse Creative Website

Before settling on analising www.eclipsecreative.co.uk
I looked at www.atticusmedia.co.uk
and www.no-brake.com as well.
Eclipse Creative deal with Graphic Design, production for television, print, and New Media.
Some of their clients include:

• Channel 4,
  
• S4C,
  
• Wales Quality Centre,
  
• Ladbrokes,
  
• Plumbline,
  
• WDA,
  
• Bafta Cymru,
  
• Wales Screen Commision.

The types of work they have produced are:

• Brand animation ising image packages and after effects
• TV Titles
• Video Editind
• Live action filming
• Music Festival Titles
• Childrens TV Series Titles
• Modelling and Animation
• Promo Videos
• Website Design

Looking at the website your first impression is of a slick contemporarylooking engaging page with plenty of visual emphasive to interest the viewer. My only real problem is with the logo and background animation (still image with ken burns effect), which takes up at the top a good third of the screen easily. This seems like a waste of space but it does get used when you watch videos of work produced. There is text above the logo which is way too small to be legible and is the only text embeddid in Flash so can't even be resized. If you went to the bother of trying to read it, it seems to be in Latin anyway so your unlikely to even understand it.

The good points of the site are: the images in the centre of the site directly relate to videos that they are linked to when you click on them and you get good background desriptions of the work produced and the videos play without a hitch. The page have a visual consitancy in layout but vary the logos background image and main background colour on everypage giving you visual cues that you are moving around the site.

Production Processes (ADM304) Notes

New module started today - Production Processes
Module Value: 2 Module:
Year: 2006-2007
Term: 1 & 2
Tutors: Stuart Neil
Date Issued: 22/11/06

Brief
Part One

Week One: Project Management, Analysis

Following the initial briefing you will be expected to undertake research on the local multimedia production companies. You will need to have a clear understanding of the work that these organisations produce, starting with the company website. You must analyse the CONTEXT as well as the CONTENT of the work. Who is it for? What’s the visual tone of voice?

Then analyse the functional and aesthetic aspects of the design: some things may look great but be difficult to use, others may look dull but be easy to use. Consider whether the visual appearance is appropriate for the intended audience - you may not like the way it looks but it may be exactly right for its particular readership.

A useful directory of new media companies can be found here http://www.sgrin.co.uk/MadeInWales.html

Later on in the brief we take on live/competition briefs
Part Three:
Weeks Four – Eight: Putting ‘production processes’ into practice
Your will be given a number of live briefs and competition briefs. You are required to select ONE and produce an original, creative outcome according to the stated deliverables..

D&AD http://www.dandad.org/studentawards07/briefs/
YCN http://www.ycnonline.com/0607_all.php