For my second review, upon browsing onepagelove.com, I stumbled across a website based upon one of my favorite tv shows. The website is whoismrrobot.com, a site that is based upon the TV Show Mr. Robot. Now, to understand the websites structure, you must understand the basics of the show. It follows a young man who is a cybersecurity engineer for a company by day and is a hacker for the most elite hacking group in the world by night. As such, the main layout is based upon a command line, or terminal, that navigates you through the website. After a brief introduction to the site is typed out for you, it gives you a list of commands to do that will continue your journey through the site. Unfortunately, after typing in the first two commands it just did some self promoting like asking you to like their Facebook page. The third command though, “inform”, brought up another terminal like page humorously making fun of the NFL deflategate scandal, which had nothing to do with the show at all, but brought themes from the show in it. Upon further investigation of the site, I figured out there were actually multiple real news related stories, all that had a connected comment from “<mrrobot>” himself, which actually brought some cool insight into that character some more. The next command, “question”, brought up a slideshow of different graffiti propaganda like images of how the american dream is a lie and other things of that nature. The other commands just brought up things like a video clip from the show and other things that were directly in the show, but the last command, “join”, brought up a command prompt from someone who says he has been watching you and wants you to join him and to enter your email address. I curiously entered my address, but have not received an email of any sort.
As far as the style of the webpage, it’s very basic but is made to look that way since it is a command prompt. It has the block to tell you where you’re at on the command line, it has a simple Serif font with just green and white text on a black background, and nothing that incredibly pops out at you. One thing I did notice was the sound design is a little messed up. I had my headphones in while navigating the command line, and all of the sound of the keystrokes and entering a new command only came out of the right side of my headphones. There isn’t a lot of texture that you can analyze from the site though, as there is no shapes or shadows or gradients that make it stand out. Just generic, but it’s obvious that’s how the site was supposed to be setup.
Overall, I think this site did a good job of achieving it’s purpose. It’s target audience is obviously for fans of the show, and I feel as it’s goal is to bring fans into the real world of the show, which it successfully did for me. The only thing I wish is that there was more commands to go through, perhaps a more interactive part to the site besides just entering commands that take you places. More typing in the command line to do more in depth things would’ve really helped, but it still successfully did what it was supposed to do.