When I was looking through my narrative it did occur to me how nice the animation looked on a single page like the one when Lily appears to Hugo. I am now thinking that as I am a little ahead of schedule I have time to add a few more pages with animations. I chose 5 pages that I thought would benefit from some simple animations.
I'm really happy that I decided to put time into adding more animations than I originally planned. It really adds to the narrative and makes the whole thing feel more lively instead of having animations at the beginning and leaving the rest very static. I made each of the animations in my iWeb document play automatically when you load the page so they feel much more like the page is animated and lively rather than separate videos.
Issues I Had When Using iWeb
For the beginning animation, which is much longer and more like a video than just an animated page, I added the option to be able to replay. This was a lot more complicated than I first thought in iWeb. All the controls to move between pages and interact are made using hyperlinks that when you click on them send you to the next or previous page but iWeb wouldn't allow me to make a hyperlink to reload the same page. At first I thought I would have to give up on the option to replay but I had an idea. I made two identical pages both featuring the same video of the opening animation so that when you clicked the 'play again' button to replay the video the hyperlink would send you to the other, identical page. This way I have created the illusion of being able to replay the animation. I was thinking of adding the same option to every animation but I decided it wasn't necessary with the animated pages. I have added hyperlinks to return to the previous page so if the reader wanted to replay the animation they could go back a page and return to the animated page. Also as the page stays visible after the animation has played it's less likely the viewer will miss something, whereas the opening video has a lot of important information in it that could be missed. So I think it's much more important to be able to easily replay it. For this reason I am very glad that I was able to think of a solution to the problem.
I have since edited one of my animations because I felt the timings were off. The scene where the 'negative' Hugo disappears, when I re watched it I realised there wasn't really enough time to read the text before he started to disappear. I was afraid that either the animation would be missed because the reader was too busy reading the text, or that the animation would draw attention from the text.
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