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Sunday, February 20, 2005

IDD 300- Mean Girls

This weekend my roommates and I watched Mean Girls. Not only was it a pretty good movie, it had a good menu interface. The entire menu and all the subsequent pages had a color pallet of three colors; black, white and pink.
The menu begins with a shot of a pink ‘Burn Book’, a notebook of sorts that holds the gossip of the three main characters. The book opens and it reads, ‘The Plastics’ while there is a picture of the three ‘mean girls’ who are called the plastics. At this time, the menu appears at the bottom of the screen. Options include Play, Special Features, Setup, and Scene Selection. That menu stays the same, at the bottom of the page. The background is constantly changing, as pages changing in a book. The pages rotate from the Plastics, to the Burnouts, to the Asian Nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity Jocks and Art Freaks. The pages don’t just change, but also the camera pans to see different parts of the page. At times it is not just pictures but also very short video clips are played.
Clicking Special Features and a picture of the meanest girl appears. Special Features is shown at the top of the screen. Each letter is a different font and also appears to have been cut up out of a magazine. A faded pink version of a Barbie doll is on the right side. The other menus have pretty much the same lay out with the title of the screen at the top in different letters and a picture of one of the characters on the left side of the screen.
I think that this was a very well thought out menu interface that incorporates the theme of the movie into the menu very well. There is a lot of action going on with the camera pans and the page turning and the background but it never seemed to me to be too busy.

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