Scott Pilgrim vs the media.

Scott Pilgrim is a series of graphic novels that have inspired a film and a video game, both of which take the name of the second graphic novel of Scott Pilgrim vs The World. When the film was released many websites were created to both advertise and admire the film and books.

The first part of the website is currently used to promote sales DVD and Blu-ray copies of the film, but before its release the website was used to show preview clips and hints about the film. A second part of the website is a lot more user interactive. It has a background soundtrack that is taken from the film and multiple menus which allow the user to navigate from everything from character biographies to download links. Using borrowed interest, the character Bios show the life stories of the actors playing the part of each of the characters, so that the fans of individual actors/actresses will find the website and the Scott Pilgrim franchise.

The website also features an "avatar"creator, which enables you to create your own character in the style of the Scott Pilgrim universe. I have created a small movie which is each step of the creation process.


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The Scott Pilgrim franchise started off life as a series of digit sized novels. Each of these novels followed the life of Scott Pilgrim and his relationship with a girl named Ramona Flowers. The books were graphic novels, and were drawn in a style that combined a manga style known as "chibi" (where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads) and normal sized characters. This is to easily show emotion while giving the characters a proper "person" look. The characters are all very stylized which is probably enhanced the story for Scott pilgrim enabling it to become a huge success and create a full feature length movie for the mainstream film industry. 


A lot of revenue was made after the movie through the films sound track. The Character "Scott Pilgrim" is a member of a band (the Sex Bob-ombs) and their songs were released after the movie. a complete list of the music can be found here. Most films create their own soundtrack using one band for the entire film, however, With Scott Pilgrim a multitude of bands/artists were used to create a soundtrack that fits feel of the film. This also enabled the film to use borrowed interest as the Music fans would go to the film to hear their band play, whilst fans of scott pilgrim may look up the bands to hear the sings again after hearing them in the film. 



Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is also the name of the franchise's video game.  The video game incorporates a multitude of references and hints and spoofs of different video games, from being created as a retro game with pixilated sprites, to borrowing sound effects and power-ups from other games. This enabled it to get a wide audience through borrowing interest as it would entertain most types of gamer as it would remind them of the classic console games such as Sonic, Zelda and super Mario. For a review, Please click here.