What I found most imaginitive about this website was the
attempt to combine more than one media form. More specifically,
the website tries to render the content of a traditional movie
(albeit a short one) with the benefits of the web's
electronic multi-window non-linear format.
Their efforts are hindered by requiring users to use extra software
of Microsoft's infamous quality, sadly, but the site does
allow the user to view the movie in multiple ways, including
viewing the movie and following in the screenplay at the same
time.
As a secondary note, questions of accessibility to the means
of producing such web-movies are raised by the other major
section of the page, which informs users of the site that
they too can make advertising money off of creating a
popular web-movie. With full-length theater movie
productions, there's little question that I'm not going to
go out into my back yard with a camera and produce a
blockbuster. The webmovies site tries to present the internet
as a more level environment for anyone to put out their
creations for fun and profit.
Jeffrey Howard
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