Website final Piece

Here is the snapshot of our FINAL piece for the website, we're happy with how it's turned out, after adding the last finishing touches by putting more pictures onto the backgrounds, and making them blend in more. Also, we've added the music video onto the website.

-Sophie.

Website progress

Today whilst looking at the final website design, we came to the conclusion that the format is very similar to a poster. So, to fix this we decided to create a background to go on either side of the template. This way it will make the website look less like a poster. This is what we have created today, although we are going to make a few touches, we would like to add more pictures from the photo shoot that we did. Here's what we've got so far. -

-Sophie

Website Design final

Today we have just about finished the website design, maybe to make a few touches. We aim to have the video on the page somewhere, at the bottom but as we have not yet completed that we cannot add that as yet. Here's a snapshot of the design.

- Sophie.

Website Design

In todays lesson we had a go at making the original website design more our own by using a photo from our shoot at the second filming as the background as its dark and mysterious. We got the band name to fit along the hedge but may change the colour, font and caps. 


-Rebecca

Evaluation of Film Shoot.

Yesterday, we filmed the footage for our first location. Looking back on the shoot, it was very stressful, but we feel accomplished almost all of the footage, that we required to shoot.. we do intend to re-shoot a few scenes, as the lighting/ composition isn't quite right. All throughout the shoot we also took still photos, and before the film shoot we did a camera shoot, to gain the images for the website/Digipack.

-All Group

Website Design Attempt

This is our second idea for a website to represent Arctic Monkeys in the time they released This House is a Circus.  


The logo at the top is fairly playful to show they can be upbeat and cheerful but it contrasts with the image of the dark circus tent which represents the songs darker nature. The background behind the logo is of moons in daylight which is something we are also incorporating into the CD pack designs by having a circus tent in day and one at night. 


I chose big red writing to show a release of the track we are doing so it catches peoples eye and lets them know as soon as they look at the site.


The boxes are a faint purple as it goes well with black and white and makes things stand out. We will try and keep the home-page fairly clean looking and will probably include:


A latest News Box
A music player
An image of the band 
This House is a Circus video


Underneath the boxes and main space we have five buttons linking to places you can buy their music and social network sites as well as one to the record label they're on 'Domino'.


Overall this is a good guideline to continue our website design with, however the background may change so that it is our own image rather than one found off the internet. 


- Rebecca

First Idea

Today we created a very basic design of our idea for the website. This will just but the background, and we will think about links, artist name, etc. We hope to use an art tablet, with photoshop to draw better onto photshop, rather than the mouse. It's supposed to be a circus tent, with house features, doors and windows. When we create the final piece, we will take photos of our own windows and doors, so as not to replicate images from the internet.

- Sophie.

The Strokes Website Analysis

The Strokes

I chose to look at The Strokes website because nearly all the bands we have looked at so far for research are British so I thought it would be good to look at an american band in the same genre as the Arctic Monkeys which The Strokes are.




-Rebecca

Website Analysis & Research

Mystery Jets

Images and Logo The image at the very top changes around every 5 seconds showing a different interesting insight to the band each time. For example there is an image of one of the band members shaving in a bathroom which fits into the theme of their latest album where all the band members are in a bathroom. This emphasises the fact that these people are just like everyone else and do everyday things.	Genre The indie genre in known for being a little bit edgy which is what this website promotes. The initial design is slightly plain but the changing random images add an edge to the website. There is no emphasis on the lead singer; it’s less about image and more about the music.
New Technology and Links There are links to Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. These are mainstream social network sites and advertise the band in more ways. Videos from Youtube are posted on the website advertising the bands new video.	Colour and Style Overall the colour of the website is slightly plain; mostly black and white colours are used. This makes the website seem basic but also looks quite professional.
Written Content The written content is very informal; from the twitter post we get a very informal direct message from one of the band members, “and thank you for the pink knickers that rained onto the stage...more for my collection.” This brings personality to the website as well as humor and reinforces the idea of them being “real” in comparison to Lady Gaga’s “put on” act.	Font and Layout The initial title “Mystery Jets” is in the same font as all the albums which subtly advertisers the albums. The font and layout is also very simple reinforcing this “ordinary” representation.
Target Audience ·         The artist is represented in an ordinary way which targets the audience as they can relate to the band. ·         The direct language also targets the audience as we’re not getting a fake voice.	Advertisements ·         New album “Serotonin” ·         ITunes ·         Tour dates ·         New single “show me the light” and the video for it.

-Katie

Rebecca's Website Research

Blur

This is my analysis of Blurs website. I chose to analyze Blur because they are an older indie style band who were mainly big in the nineties and in rival to other brit-pop indie band Oasis. 

Arctic Monkeys are still in their prime for this generation so I thought it would be interesting to look at an indie band less active now to compare. 

 - Rebecca

Web Research-

Website Analysis and Research-


The Libertines-

The Libertines are of the same genre as Arctic Monkeys. So this examples gives us a good insight into the generic conventions of an indie website. 

-SOPHIE & KATIE

The Last Shadow Puppets-

The Last Shadow Puppets are a band made up of Miles Kane, ogrinally from The Rascals, and Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. I thought it would be interesting to analyse the website of The Last Shadow Puppets as it will show another side to Alex Turner. This band already have quite a mainstream audience as both The Rascals and Arctic Monkeys have a large fanbase already established, so they don't need to promote themselves as much as a fresh and brand new band would have to.

- Sophie.