The Internet Compared to Film Elements
             The web site I chose to critique and compare was puma.com. Puma is an international company with production and distribution in more than 45 countries worldwide. This facts lends itself to the inciting incident that opens their website. Puma uses a flash based introduction that takes advantage of digital imaging, juxtaposing a tiger onto a European soccer field. Because the images are constantly moving, it brings the visitor's attention not only to the company's logo but also the headlines surrounding the images. The site I chose to identify as the worst website was geocities/siliconvalley/WW, standing for Worst Website. This site serves as a guide for webmasters of exactly what not to do when designing a site.
             The worst website holds true to it's name. It is little more than a black page, containing white text that identifies where you are at the time. For example, one of the links says "home page" and next to it says "do not click, you are here". Underneath of this highly technical explanation is other links, which are nothing more than text saying exactly what they are. There are no characters or rollover buttons, each page is simply white text on a black background. Therefore, relating this site to acts, scenes, and beats is impossible besides saying that the entire web page could be described as one act, containing four scenes (the total number of links) with positively no beats, or changes in each of the four scenes. The canonical is a boring, blank, black page and tempo is almost non-existent because there is no transitional effects from page to page. All in all the lack of contrasting colors, and the boring, blank page composition make the pages in this site just as entertaining as reading a term paper.
             The canonical of the Puma web site is an easily navigated layout with a permanent title bar, containing the same navigational options on ...