Website Planning - Analysis of different sites

This is a table showing the three different websites that I analysed. I chose artists that were similar to see if there were similarities or differences. Many things ran parallel with each other such as navigation bars and the fact that there were main colours that flowed through the sites. The pink highlights show the things that I would want to put in my own website as this was a recurring theme in all the sites that I had looked at

Website Planning

One of the tasks we had to do to help plan to create our website was to get a model and annotate it. The picture below shows how we did this:

The text in lighter red points out the 'obvious' and the things that mostly stand out. The text in darker red show how and why this is helpful. 

This task helped when designing our own websites as we were able to see how a successful website should be made. We were also able to see the negatives such as if a page was too busy, this might take away the attention from the artist. Pinpointing the negatives made sure that when creating our website, the same mistakes would not be made.

Website Planning

Our next project is to make a website. Prior to when we design it, the class did a research and planning lesson. This allowed us to get a sense of what 'typical' websites look like and could be our basis of when creating our own. I looked a JLS's webpage: http://www.jlsofficial.com/gb/home/ . From analysing this I made a table and then compared and contrasted it with other websites.

Progress Report

I am still currently behind with work, however filming for my music video is now finished and photos and a sketch of my digipak is now complete. This week I hope to have everything completed and on my blog.

Creating digipak

Lunapic is the site that I edited my pictures on. I kept it quite simple as Beyonce's actual CD covers are not that busy. The original front cover looked like this:

After I added text it looked like this:

I decided to make the B different from the rest of the text as this is the logo that Beyonce is famous for.

The back of the digipak originally looked like this:

 

After editing it now looks like this: 

I stuck to my original idea and left the flame in focus while everything else is left blurry

Compared to other digipaks, mine is quite simple. This is simply because I took inspiration from Beyonce's actual CD covers and made mine similar. Most of the time she only has a picture of herself and the title of the album therefore I did the same thing.

Examples of Beyonce's CD covers:

Photos/Intentions for digipak

Now that my music video is recorded, I have decided to progress with my digipak. I did it this way because  while filming, I would get inspired to take a picture of where ever we were filming and then I could decide whether it will fit into my digipak. Here's a picture I have taken for the front cover:

This was taken after doing my first filming session and I found that the red light work well to connote anger. The same sort of image will be for the back of the digipak. The image that I may use for this is:

 

I chose this image as it links with the music video, (there is a scene when she sets fire to some clothes in a bath). however, there is a lot of extra space in the image that I will crop. 

As I decided to use Lunapic for my editing process of the digipak I thought about adding an effect to it, so I may blur the image, but leave the flame in focus. The track listing will be above her head.

For the panels, I will take still images from the music video or take more photographs. 

Digipak Research/Planning

At the beginning of the course, we were shown different digipak templates by our teacher. They all opened out and were appealing to the audiences that they were aimed at. The digipak that was assigned to us was 'The Lemonheads' (shown in posts below). When I was designing my digipak, I referred back to this so I made sure the template was correct and I looked at the text and images to see the positioning of them to make sure that nothing was too obscure. Doing this also allowed me to see what I could make better. One of the ideas that influenced my own digipak was the colour scheme. The digipak for 'The Lemonheads' doesn't use that many colours, this keeps simplicity and doesn't make the digipak look too busy; because of this I have made the main colours of my digipak red, black and white. It is capturing and doesn't make the audience's eyes dart around so much.