How Noticable Are Your Web Effects?
In an interview with Steven Spielberg, Wired notes that there are some 400 special effects in Minority Report, more than any of his movies since Close Encounters. Spielberg downplays the question by saying that many of these effects were required to manipulate the images that Tom Cruise’s character uses to determine where the murders are going to take place.
Most of the effects have to do with images onscreen that we couldn’t photograph live, so we had to do them in postproduction. When I say we have 445 effects shots in the film, more than I have had in any movie in my career, most of those will go unnoticed by the audience.
This made me think about the use of “effects” in Web design, i.e. Flash, SVG, JavaScript, etc, and whether or not they go unnoticed by the user. If they’re noticeable, are they being using for the right purpose? Just something to think about.
- 20 May 02
- flash, interaction design, web design
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