animated site for theatrical production

[Kingman]

Greetings,

Here is an animation that I am working on for a magician's theatrical production. The production is a re-enactment of an early 1900's seance. I tried to give the same type of feeling to the site.
The entire site is 599 kb's. This number includes the three .swf files that make up the entire movie. I am wondering if this is about right or if I should be able to lower that number. When testing with the bandwith profiler. I have one tall-pole at 128kb and the next tallest is at 32k. everything else is below the line. That was testing for 56k dial-up

Thanks for any comments or advice.

http://www.magicofkingman.com/manifestations1.html

Kingman

[Timmee_3Styler]

defintely lower that number
take out the morphing of images...thats a few kb u could cut down rigth there

speed up the animation tooo
no way this site with the 2 sections i saw is worth a 500 kb download...... =/

[Zarathustra]

I'm wondering if you are asking for a review of just the file size (i.e, load time) or just improvements in general.
Going with the latter:
I didn't experience any load time problems, but I am using a cable modem. 500k is big, and you could also try setting the sound compression withing flash a bit lower (and mp3 as well, if you didn't already). I'm not suggesting sacrificing sound quality for size, mind you. Also, you could perhaps reduce the files size a bit by creating your own vector artwork for the animations, since using the trace command in Flash (note: it is the best raster to vector trace utiltiy I've ever seen, including Corel's and Adobe's) will still dither some areas, creating more angles and hence, more data.
Also, there is no indicator of any kind as to which objects are clickable, and which are not. I had to feel around to find the hotspots, and that can get bothersome.
Good job overall, I found it educational.