Analysis of a website

Website Deconstruction

This is a website deconstruction. I am using this to understand how to layout a website, most websites have a simple but slick layout. You should be ale to know what the band is doing, any tour dates and images of the band, both their work and personal lives.

I believe the key to a website is to establish a connection between the audience and the band. It is the main way to reach the artist other than social networking sites.

Rough Edit

This is a rough edit of the music video. We have used this to gather feedback and make changes that would better the video. As you may notice it is still unfinished but we will use suggestions from the feedback to fill in the gaps.

Inspiration: Black & White/Colour

Jake Bugg's Lightning Bolt inspires me because of the style it is filmed. I believe that the visuals match the audio very well as the song is in a 60s/70s folk and country genre, I think the song and video is heavily influenced by Bob Dylan.

 This is an image from Bob Dylan's 'Blood In My Eyes'

This is an image from Jake Bugg's 'Lightning Bolt'

As you can see the images are very similar







I also like the way the video features lots of different locations and random shots of the town. I feel inspired by this music video because the concept is very similar to my own with Jake Bugg on a journey. I am thinking about using some random shots of my town because I can seed it is very effective in establishing the location and letting the audience see places that are familiar to them, which would establish a connection between the artist and the audience. The changing of colour to black and white shows intertextuality between Bob Dylan and Jake Bugg.

Final Logo

This is the final logo for the band. It shows an elephant blowing water out of his trunk in a waterfall fashion. The elephant was selected for many reasons. First it is a peaceful animal and the music fits the same description. The flowing water connotes a flow in the music a melody of sorts. It is a minimalistic design because of the conventions of band logos, for example the 'Red Hot Chile Peppers' their band logo is just a star and 'Queens of the stone age' have a two pronged fork. Because of this reason I have kept the design to minimal detail. Another reason why we chose the elephant was because it is the lead guitarist's/front man's favourite animal and this allows the band to connect with the fans on a personal level as it lets them know more about the bands likes and dislikes.

Making of the Band Logo

Making of the Logo

I was the one who made the logo and this is my step by step on how I designed and and coloured the logo.

My Practice CD cover

This is the CD cover I made, I made this in photoshop. In the lesson we were told to flickr a random image then use wikipedia to get a random band name. We then downloaded a font of our choosing on dafont. Finally I found a random quote and took the last five words and used them as a album title. This is what I came up with.

As you can see I edited the text to fit in with the image. I used drop shadow to create a shadow effect to make them in sync with the image.

This is only quick edit but it has already inspired me on what my digipak will look like.

What is a Digipak?

A Digipak is a special CD/DVD of an album which usually comes with a physical copy of the disc, a case and a booklet. There can also be some other extras in the Digipak for example artwork, postcards, bonus discs etc.

Here are some example's of Digipaks:

This is an example of a simple and minimalistic digipak. As you can see the main colour scheme is black and each bandmate is given a specific colour. The CD in the centre is a combination of all the colours with black stripes going through it. This is a 10 panel digipak, 5 panels each side, this means it is more detailed than most digipaks. Conventional digipaks are either 6 panels or 4 panels.

This digipak on the other hand is very detailed, in the sense that the design is very intricate and it sticks to one concept. It features two CDs which is another feature of a digipak. The colour is a grayish green colour which could connote an erie tone. I prefer this digipak because it is very detailed and the concept is kept through all of the panels.

Digipak Analysis

                

Today we looked at digipaks and analysed one. We looked at the codes and conventions. We found that all digipaks have some sort of bonus content to them whether it be a second CD/DVD or a lyric book or even random post card and other notes or ideas the band originally had. From this analysis you can see that this digipak came with a lyric book along with two other CDs all the as you can see if the CDs are aligned they have an overlapping image I believe I may use this feature for the design of my own digipak.