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Leandro Sitemap
www.beard.dialnsa.edu/leandro
Department of Communication, Master of Arts in Media Studies
New School University
12-01-05

1 Resume
1.1 Biography
1.2 Education
1.3 Work Experience
1.4 Skills
1.5 Awards
1.6 References
1.7 Travels

2 Photography
2.1 Subway Series
2.2 Faceless Portrait
2.3 Roscoe

3 Films
3.1 Short Narrative
3.2 Aesop’s Fable
3.3 Editing Exercise
3.3.1 Video Variation
3.3.2 Director’s cut
3.3.3 Saturday FMD Unleased
3.4 Other Projects
3.5 Work in Progress

4 Presentation
4.1 Philip Morris
4.2 Photography Exhibition Review
4.3 Critical Theme in Media Studies
4.4 Editing Scene Analysis

5 Media Log
5.1 Sketches
5.2 Notes

6 Links

7 Contact

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Focus Features.com

1 Now Playing

1.1 The Ice harvest
1.1.1 View Media
1.1.2 Visit Official Site
1.2 Pride & Prejudice
1.2.1 View Media
1.2.2 Visit Official Site
1.3 The Constant Gardener
1.3.1 View Media
1.3.2 Visit Official Site
1.4 Broken Flowers
1.4.1 View Media
1.4.2 Visit Official Media

2 Coming Soon

2.1 Brokeback Mountain
2.1.1 View Media
2.1.2 Visit Official Site
2.2 Something New
2.2.1 View Media
2.2.2 Visit Official Site
2.3 Brick
2.3.1 View Media
2.3.2 Visit Official Site
2.4 On a Clear Day
2.4.1 View Media
2.4.2 Visit Official Site
2.5 Untitled George Reeves Project
2.5.1 View Media
2.5.2 Visit Official Site

3 Vault

3.1 My Summer of Love
3.1.1 Visit Official site
3.1.2 Synopsis
3.1.3 Credits

3.2 Rory O’Shea Was Here
3.2.1 Visit Official site
3.2.2 Synopsis
3.2.3 Credits

3.3 The Motorcycle Diaries
3.3.1 Visit Official site
3.3.2 Synopsis
3.3.3 Credits

3.4 Vanity Fair
3.4.1 Visit Official site
3.4.2 Synopsis
3.4.3 Credits

3.5 The Door in the Floor
3.5.1 Visit Official site
3.5.2 Synopsis
3.5.3 Credits

3.6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3.6.1 Visit Official site
3.6.2 Synopsis
3.6.3 Credits

4 About Focus

5 Awards

5.1 Brokeback Mountain
5.2 Pride & Prejudice
5.3 The Constant Gardener
5.4 Broken Flowers
5.5 My Summer of love
5.6 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5.7 Rory O’Shea Was Here

6 Media

6.1 Brick
6.1.1 Trailer
6.2 Brokeback Mountain
6.2.1 Trailer
6.3 The Ice Harvest
6.3.1 Trailer
6.4 Pride & Prejudice
6.4.1 Trailer
6.5 Broken Flowers
6.5.1 Trailer
6.6 The Constant Gardener
6.6.1 Trailer

7 Register

8 Rogue

Benchmarking analysis

www.hbo.com
www.docurama.com
www.mightypics.tv
www.focusfeatures.com
www.cinematropical.com


I looked at the web sites of documentary production companies such as HBO.com, focusfeatures.com, mightypics.tv and two distribution companies such as docurama.com and cinematropical.com. All of them are easy to navigate and they also seem to anticipate possible requests by the potential users. However, there are clear differences among them. HBO is the most dense website of the abovementioned with all the information very well grouped on the left side and the titles of those groups also appearing along the width of the top side of the site, so you don’t need to scroll down the web to get to what you are looking for. However, that amount of information can be also visually distracting because in the center and right side of the site you have a lot of information about shows, coming shows, interviews and schedule. Everything you need is there but altogether. When you surf the website you find that every page you go is like a whole new site, but simpler than the main page.

On the other end you have cinematropical.com, the dimension of both company can easily explain why the latter is simpler and easier to navigate than the former. This web site organizes its titles that lead you to different parts of the site in the same fashion as the HBO one but it doesn’t have the information grouped on the left side. Therefore, you click on the titles to find out what is in it. In the center of the site you find notes with the most recent events.

Some of them as focusfeatures.com have sound when you open the site and for being movie companies or distribution companies the have links to movie or documentary trailers. All of them but cinematropical.com have a searching window that allows the users to shortcut theirs searchings.

I understand that these are corporate websites but I expected a little more of creativity from these kinds of companies since they are or pretend to be art-related companies.


www.focusfeatures.com

Effectiveness of navigation

It is easy to navigate and pretty straightforward. You can find everything you need in a very simply manner. When you pose the mouse on the link this change color becoming brighter than the others. That allows you to know that you are on the right link.

Information architecture

The titles to navigate the site are organized from left to right on the top and below the name of the company and a banner, which advertises coming attractions and events.
All the links in each sub page are on the left side with its explanation on the right side. The architecture leads you to every part of the site very easily by using simple titles that concentrate the major information.

Quality of design and presentation

I like the design, but I would make same changes to the color blue it is used. It opens with the new of the company fading in and the shows the main movies now playing or coming soon. Everything is framed and centered in a windows which contains almost all the information and differs from the rest of the page by the intensity of the color blue.

Substantive textual, visual, audio, media content

As a company, which deals with music and movies, this part is its best feature. It is very well developed. You have access to all the trails and the site also shows the users what kind of program the need in order to see the trailers. In every page of the site on the bottom right side outside the centered-framed window you can see Flash, Quicktime and Window Media.

Mastering Wabi-Sabi

I read the book about Wabi-Sabi. I liked it. It was a little difficult to get to understand what Wabi-sabi meant, but I guess that it is normal since my friends from Japan couldn’t explain it to me. The closest to a definition I was was “elegant simplicity”. I understand the idea of the arts in the details and the beauty of the ugliness because I believe in that. It doesn’t catch my attention big piece of arts or well-advertised exhibitions. I couple of years ago, I famous Argentine artist broke a glass in TV and said that that was art. I wonder if she wasn’t the Wabi-Sabi master of Argentina.
I have been concerned about my projects for class since I have never deal with any creative activity. Economics is much simple and predictable. However, Wabi-Sabi is part of my philosophy so you can understand why I couldn’t continue working with numbers. I remember when my boss fired me and rehired me 15 days after. He asked why I was working so efficiently after he had fired me and I answered that I was happy to leave the company. He wanted me to stay and I said that the only way I would stay was if he could make me happy. I stayed but he failed to make me happy so I quit, finished my school and came to New York.
At the end of December I will be in Buenos Aires and I may visit him. If he asks me what happened, I will answer:” Wabi-Sabi man, nothing else”.