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Houston Halloween Film Festival
Overview:
This client wanted a website that
would not only look great, but allow film makers
to enter the Festival online and streamline the
planning phase of the event. The Festival committee
members were looking for a way to gather, organize
and maintain the filmmakers personal information
as well as the details about their Festival submission.
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It was specified that the site must:
- Contain unique graphic design and programming elements.
- Provide a video and photo gallery of past Festivals.
- Contain a contact form that would be routed to appropriate committee members.
- Allow filmmakers to register for the Festival online.
- Allow filmmakers to create secure accounts.
- Allow filmmakers to upload an image to represent their film.
- Dynamically generated personalized PDF forms.
- Allow filmmakers to pay entry fee online.
- Help the Festival organizers keep track of materials submitted by users.
- Contain a multi-level group/user based security framework.
- Allow the organizers of the Fest to view real time statistics.
- Allow the organizers of the Fest to communicate with users.
- Organize information necessary for Festival program.
Solution:
1. Contain unique graphic design and programming
elements.
One of the key graphic features
of this site is the photo-realistic graveyard scene
on the homepage. This Flash animation is a composite
of a number of custom photographs taken especially
for this site. In contrast to traditional timeline-based
Flash animation, this image was brought to life through
advanced object-oriented Flash programming in ActionScript.
The bats that move about the site were given their
own individual "intelligence," resulting
in a unique and random flight pattern each time the
site is loaded. The lightning strikes are completely
random as well. This approach not only gives the end
user a unique experience each time the site is visited,
but dramatically decreases the overall file size of
the Flash animation, making the load time for the
end user nearly instantaneous and obviating the need
for any sort of special "loader" script.
Incredibly, the entire movie scene occupies under
50 kilobytes, comparable in size to a typical static
image of the same dimensions!
2. Provide a video and photo gallery of past Festivals.
A major goal was to provide a gallery of photos and
videos on the site and present them in a unique and
compelling manner. We designed a virtual "crypt"
using elements derived from actual photographs of
stonework. It provided the perfectly-themed solution
for creating a unique and intuitive interface to browse
galleries grouped by year.
For the videos portion, we integrated a media player
with high-quality streaming video content of selected
film entries from past Festivals. For the photo galleries,
we implemented a Flash solution that shows animated
thumbnails, multiple pagination, and slide fade-in
transitions, all without browser page refreshes. The
code was also optimized for the best possible load
times and most visually appealing display.
3. Contain a contact form that is routed to
appropriate committee members.
Because different Festival committee
members were responsible for different aspects of
the Festival, we created a custom contact form that
will automatically route contact requests to the appropriate
person, based upon the subject matter about which
the web user is inquiring.
4. Allow filmmakers to register for the Festival
online.
A registration feature was developed
enabling moviemakers to register for the Festival
online. The information entered into this section
of the site is verified twice, insuring that all mandatory
fields are filled out and that the format of this
information is correct. For the most common types
of errors, a dialogue box will display prompting the
user for the correct information and the relevant
form-field will be highlighted, all without a page
refresh.
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