
Never Coming Home is an excellent project by Andrew Lictenstein, hosted by Media Storm.
http://www.mediastorm.org/0006.htm
The project has been presented in the same format that the website uses for all its projects. It is simple and easy to navigate. The representation of the casualties in Iraq along-with the changing dates on the upper right corner of the project screen, in the first chapter, serves as a dynamic pre-loader to the project. The project requires a multimedia platform, as the real impact of the project is the combined effect of the audio interviews and the still images. Just audio or just still images would not have been so powerful as this project is. The layout and the color scheme do fit well with the theme of the project. Another good thing about the project is that the different chapters are visible all the time as thumbnails and can be accessed easily. But what I do not like about the project design is that how the consecutive chapters start playing automatically and the viewer does not have a control on that. Secondly, the screen option on the lower right corner actually does not make the project full screen. It simple makes it a little bigger. I wonder why the full screen option was not considered by Media Storm. Although the audio quality is excellent, the consistent sound of gunshots, fake of course, used as fillers for the project is a bit irritating. From the second project onwards, it really starts annoying.









