Research into movie trailer websites

This section will look at movie trailer web sites that offer the user a preview of new release movies. By researching this an understaning will be gained of the content that will be and won't be needed in an mobile phone movie trailer web site.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/
Characteristics:

• Link to main movie trailers are posters of the movie
• Some trailers can be viewed in high definition
• Upcoming film previews are listed by film studio
• Movie trailers available on ipod
• no option to post opinion on movies
  

http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=genre%3AMOVIE_TRAILER
Characteristics:

• Movie trailers are listed
• Images are not good
• Movies are in no order
  
• Not really sure what movies are new releases
• Movies can be viewd by category
• Does not just cover new releases
• no option to post opinion on movies
  

http://www.imdb.com/nowplaying/
Characteristics:

• Only specific to U.S. cinema listings
• Offers movie showtimes by entering address details (restircted to U.S.)
• Future releases are detailed quite far ahead but there are no images to support them
• no option to post opinion on movies
  

http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/main/movies/movies.jsp?frompage=wb_homepage
Charactersitics:

• Visually more interesting than previous sites
• Trailer search facility
• Interaction is interesting with the navigatgion through the different movie images
• Previews are not just restricted to current movies but movies that will be released in the future aswell
• no option to post opinions on movies