Website Analysis EG:1 Adam Ant

In order to create our own website for our band, we need to first look at examples of other websites from different artists, to both gain inspiration and understand what works/what does not work, and therefore what we will be including in our own website. 






Adam Ant 


There are 6 top links on the website. 
1 of these includes 'Home' however, it is possible to create a home button.

It is very important to be careful in the language used, as here, 'Features' is quite hard to understand what it includes, as it's a very broad term. 

There are many different ways in which something can be named. For example, Merchandise can be Merch/ Store/ Shop. 

BANNER should be link in to newest release, not effective, not eye-catching, doesn't stand out. font is not effective. 

Overall, the website is quite hard to navigate as many of the links are unclear. I also do not like the colour scheme very much as it isn't eyecatching and i don't think that the colors are very complimentary.

Podcast 6

This weeks Podcast:

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MISE-EN-SCENE 2: Narrative Costume

For our music video, we wanted the girl in our narrative to have a skull painted on half of her face. This is because in our narrative we have a male character (the lead singer) who is upset and fustrated at a girl. We want her makeup to represent the 'death' of their relationship. however, it will only cover half her face as she is not actually dead, just dead to him. 
I was inspired by a character called Tate in the show American Horror Story. 
I used white concealer for the base and then 2 different kind of eyeliners to create the shadows and details. 
I had to do this very quickly as we didn't have much time while filming. It was also raining so it didn't turn out as good as i'd hoped.

SR: Production Schedule UPDATE 2

Today, I updated our production schedule (update 2) after we have filmed some footage. Unfortunately our female protagonist wasn't able to make it and so we weren't able to finish filming the entire narrative. We have also decided to choose another female protagonist, which we will be talking about in our 4th podcast. 

Production schedule update 2 from Sophie2401

MISE-EN-SCENE 3: Tattoos

 

As tattoos are a very common feature of rock bands, and as we wanted to achieve verisimilitude, we decided to have tattoos on the band members.

When first designing the tattoos, I took a lot of inspiration from the lead singer of Bring Me The Horizon, Oli Sykes. There were a few tattoos that i saw very often on singers or band members such as: 
- Roses
- Crosses
- Skulls
- Instruments/something music themed.

I also took the lyrics of the song we are using (Follow You) and found some phrases that I could base a tattoo of. 

I immediately saw the word heart and was inspired by that to draw a realistic heart. I drew the designs in biro as it allows small detail and creates a similar effect to that of a tattoo.

After having designed all of these tattoos and drawn them out, i began testing the paper we had bought to make the tattoos temporary, as my previous attempts had not worked properly. 
I drew a very simple sun design on word, and then printed it out 5 times onto the paper. I tried a few different methods, the one I found on the internet, and one that was on the packet of the paper. 
This was moderately successful, although there was still a strange plastic texture to the tattoo. I tried again a couple of times and found that if i used hot water, and dampened the tattoo often it worked fine. 
I then took all of my designs and printed them out.

On the day of the shoot, i brought along hot water and tried to place the tattoos on our band members. 
However it didn't work and we had to go without. 
I ended up drawing the tattoos on with an eyeliner pen. 
 
  
I drew words such as 'hate' 'love' 'life 'death' on the knuckles of 2 band members and on the other 2 i drew crosses. 
I also drew a lightning bolt on anothers arm. 


 

Podcast 5

This weeks podcast was recorded by Kristian. We decided to share recording the podcasts among us, as it enabled the other members of the group to focus on another aspect of our coursework while someone was recording. (The title of the podcast should be Podcast 5)



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INSTAGRAM

I decided to set up an instagram account for our band, as most bands and artists have instagram accounts, so that they can interact with fans and share news and new music.

I posted images that I took whilst we were filming and also some screenshots from our video. I also posted 2 boomerangs, but I will go into more detail on those in a separate post. 

I also posted some of our merchandise.

The theme that i decided to keep to is black and white. However i did post some in colour, but with very little saturation, so they still fit well. I think that the theme works well with the branding of our band and also the genre of music that they produce.