Star Wars in concert (analyse of a multimedia special)

This post is about analysing a multimedia special related to our blog theme so I chose a special I found about the Star Wars tour. It includes an interview to Anthony Daniels, one of the most famous voices of the franchise Star Wars (C-3PO). He has become the narrator of the "Star Wars: in concert", having the chance to work with more than 100 musicians and professionals including the compositor of the soundtrack John Williams.

This special multimedia is just a little part of a one much bigger called "Hero complex: for your inner fanboy", which includes the posibility to navigate and get informed about many franchises and characters of famous films, normally trilogies. You can go any of these sections just clicking on the hypertexts, which lead you to the special report you are interested in. Once you are on one of those reports, in this case "Star Wars:in concert", you have a navigation bar above the news wich let you go to the previous post, the next post, and of course, to Hero Complex Home. It's a very simple navigation bar, but due to this very effective, because you just cannot get lost while browsing.

Below this navigation bar appears the title of the special and its publication date including the hour. The special contains a structure full of hypertexts. Clicking on these hypertexts another window will be opened leading you to the official websites of the subjet. For example, the name of the trilogy, Star Wars, appears in blue and underlined. If you click on it, you will be taken to the official Star Wars site. It's structured in several paragraphs, the first ones related to the Star Wars tour and the next ones to the Anthony Daniels interview.

At the bottom of the report there's an special section to get informed about the dates and how to get tickets, and other section with recent and related links to Star Wars. As a good special multimedia it also gives the posibility to post comments with your opinion.

The special multimedia also includes official pictures of the interviewee and the movie. We have the opportunity to download them just clicking on it. The report offers the chance to see the Star Wars orchestra in action through a promotional video tour (offered by youtube) which invites everybody to attend the event.

So this is an interactive experience which lets users get informed while enjoying the characteristics of Web 2.0. It could also contain timelines, maps or infographics but the website has chosen to do it like this. If you want to live one of these experiences just go to this page to see what a timeline is http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/jacksontimeline/flash.htm

Enjoy.

Elena