Well, the site is boring. If you really are a bunch of beginners, the site doesn't show that. It's - yawn - competent. There isn't any energy or enthusiasm. It isn't tacky or interesting in a badly done way. It doesn't attempt to be daring and exciting in a "non-Kurosawa" way and fail. It just succeeds at being a boring web site.
What are you trying to do with this site? If it represents your group, then I don't want to volunteer, invest, or buy anything from you guys. I'll just move on.
Come on, can't you do better?
Film, as you well know, is a collaborative effort requiring a strong leadership, enormous and varied technical abilities, and a lot of luck. For one thing, your web site doesn't show any strong leadership. Committees make boring movies (that's what usually sucks the worst about student films). No matter what color you use or what font you use, there needs to be the feeling that SOMEBODY said, yes!!!! this is the font I will fight to the death to use!!!!!
And film, being the kind of game it is, requires egos. Where are the pictures of the combatants - er, participants? I can't get a feel for what you're trying to do if I don't know what you look like. Film is ultimately light hitting your eyes, it's visual (with sound - if it were sound first it'd be audio). You gotta get some life into those visuals.
Edit: Forgot to add that if you want your shorts to impress you have to "frame" them - give them a context, an introduction, a challenge, SOMETHING. You don't just hang it out there - you have the director give a 5-minute discussion on the weather of the day of filming, or anything. It's as much a part of the package as putting it together in the first place. In fact, often a "winning" presentation is 99 percent presentation, 1 per cent short film.
