Brilliant Interactive Website

Jan 8, 2009 by d0rr    No Comments    Posted under: Blog

You are given a chance to photograph Marian Rivera and/or Will Devaughn and publish your very own taken photos on a magazine book. The JAG Studio allows you to take photographs of the well known models, pick the photos you like, publish them, and share the book with your friend.

In the form of digital media, interactivity between the media and the users is the crucial key to success. Two way communication tends to leave stronger impact on the users, with more effective consumer branding.

In order to maximize the impact of interactive digital media and to achieve goals, generally it has to be user friendly, offering what most users will want to interact with, attract users’ attentions, and last but not least to allow easy word of mouth reference. Yes, the power of people network is *very* compelling.

Putting myself in the consumers’ shoes, I gave this website a try and it does not disappoint me much.

Without second thought, I picked Marian Rivera to be photographed.

The flash showed a video clip with Marian posing around, and all you have to do is to zoom in/out and compose your photo(s). It is easy to play, with scrolling your mouse for zooming in/out, moving your mouse to compose and click to release the shutter. I notice that there are possibilities of camera shake too! I may be due to my laggy machine though.

Upon finishing the photography session, you may edit your black book by drag-and-drop. Pick the photos you like, and arrange them with preset layout. Once you’re done, publish and send to your friends. It’s just that simple.

Have a look at The Black Book that I’ve done

(not bad, seeing from the ID sequence, there are already 23214 plays on this interactive media to date)

However, I notice that this website is having the same issue as I had with other flash-based websites. Whenever I load their site, my browser will constantly occupy the CPU to the max and started to slow down my machine. See the screen shot below.

If you look closely, there’s a constant data transferring from their site to your browser, which I suspect the action script was not done properly. Or is it just me? I am running on Firefox 3.0.5 with Flash 10.0.12.36, both on latest version at time of this post.

Nonetheless, this is one of the best interactive microsite I’ve came across. In fact, it is the first for the year of 2009

Hope you enjoy being a magazine photographer, for a while, too.

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