Deconstruction

Disturbia website deconstruction

When clicking onto the disturbia website you are initially led to a page where you can either ‘enter the site’, watch the trailer, buy the DVD, ‘scare your friends with disturbia’ or scroll down to see the synopsis and other bits of information. 


Disturbia Webpage

 The image on the first page of the website shows the main character looking over the top of a pair of binoculars, where in both lenses an image of a woman and a males silhouette is shown against an orange background, which contrasts against the black and white photo. Above the image is the title of the film ‘disturbia’ and the films tag line ‘Every killer lives next door to someone. When clicking on ‘enter the site’ you are taken to the characters room where the male is sitting on a chair in the centre screen. When scrolling your mouse across the screen the editors have added a setting where you are able to look 180 degrees around the room, with some of the items being hyperlinked to another page within the site.

The hyperlinks include photo gallery, about the dvd, disturbia suburbia, about the film, videos, downloads, registration and dark secrets. Each of these hyperlinks leads you to another page which all have different images as their background, giving the audiences the knowledge of all the major playing characters. When opening ‘dark secret’ the website opens another window where the makers of the film have allowed space for people to tell their own scary stories which happen in their neighbourhood. On these comments you can rate them out of five and also send their story on to a friend.

In the photo gallery are a range of screenshots from the film which are shown again through the lenses of the binoculars, which continues the theme of the first webpage. The audience can also see how important the binoculars are in this particular film as it is a pivotal part of the design of the website and can be seen in both major photos, on the first webpage and the 190 degree photograph.