First Draft of website homepage

This is the first draft of my website homepage, this was created using Wix.
http://timothymartini11.wix.com/apposition

Digital Mock-up of website

This is the website that I designed for the summer work and is not representative of the final product. http://slipknot1998.weebly.com/

home page

About

Live Events

Gallery

Videos

Music: Albums

Music: Features

Digital Mock-up of album cover

This was made when we were preparing for our pitch and it is not representative of the final product.

Costume That Our Artists Will Wear (repost)

For brand image

For music video

Photos for ancillary products

Brief overview of the “Do’s and Don’ts” of design work

Short list of fonts, colours, layout and design ideas

Inspiration for ancillary products

Reaction to finishing music video

Hi there, this is my reaction to finally finishing making our music video.

Analysis of Halestorm's website

Website name:  Halestorm Genre: Rock	Url: http://www.halestormrocks.com/
Where do the links and icons take you?	What images are used?
Tour, Store, Lzzy’s Diary (Tumblr Page), Music, Video, Photos, News, Fan club and Social Media	The Halestorm logo, merchandise and the album cover.
Fonts: what styles, colours and sizes of fonts are used?	What is the ratio of image to text?
The text is white and bold throughout, however at some points it larger than other texts.	Slightly more text than image
How does the website speak to its audience? Informal or formal? Examples?	How is costume and other elements of mise-en-scene presented
It speaks very formally. For example: “Halestorm’s own Arejay Hale is nominated for Best Drummer in Music Radar’s 2015 end of year poll! Vote for Arejay (as many times as you’d like) at the link below!”	It is presented only in the album cover.
How does the overall use of colour relate to the genre?
It looks clean, as the rock genre can be soft as well as harsh.

Analysis of Disturbed's website

Website name: Disturbed Genre: Rock	Url: disturbed1.com
Where do the links and icons take you?	What images are used?
News, bio, music, tour, videos, community, merch store, music store and social media.	Album cover and deluxe edition of new album.
Fonts: what styles, colours and sizes of fonts are used?	What is the ratio of image to text?
The band name is the same as the album; however the rest of the text is small and blue.	More text than images.
How does the website speak to its audience? Informal or formal? Examples?	How is costume and other elements of mise-en-scene presented
Speaks in an informal tone. For example it says “My brothers and sister. My blood!” Acting if the audience and the band is part of a huge family.	Does not show other mise-en-scene.
How does the overall use of colour relate to the genre?
The harsh colours reflect the genre.

Website ideas

Group design ideas:
-Logo in centre
-Gallery of images
-Videos
-Social media links
-Soundcloud of main single, Prisoner
-Information on band
-Quite plain
-Merchandise store

Individual ideas:
-links to my own digipak in terms of artwork and style
-Tagline "We will not be prisoners to destiny"
-More detailed info on band

Website planning

Group ideas:

• Logo in centre
• Gallery
• Videos
• Social media
• Soundcloud link
• Merchandise
• Quite basic

Own Ideas:

• Wide shot of Band
• No tagline
• Basic info - Band members

Digipak ideas

Group ideas:

• Shot of my hands tied behind chair
• Blue tint 
• Photo of band in booklet
• Band and title of album
• Black, white and blue colour scheme.
• Dark colours link with hard rock.
• Back cover has tracklist, barcode, record label and institutional information.

Own ideas:

• Text on front will be white
• Tracklist will be white
• Mid-shot of hands tied
• Wide-shot of band on back cover
• CD black and text on it is white.

Digipak ideas

Group ideas:
-Image of Tim (the prisoner) tied in chair
-Photo of band in booklet
-Band and title of album
-Bluish tint
-Band and title of album on CD
-Black white and blue colour scheme - Dark colours link to genre of hard rock/metal
-Back cover includes:  Tracklist, record label, producer, copyright info.

Own ideas:
-Black text on front and back track-listing
-White copyright information
-Quite plain back cover
-Band photo on inside panel

Analysis of Halestorm digipak

Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together album digipak

Artist: Architects
Album Name: Lost Forever // Lost Together
Genre: Metalcore

The central image of the album is the band logo, with artwork behind. The artwork is symmetrical, almost like a flower or a tattoo. The main colours are black and white (as well as grey). This logo, colour scheme and the flower-like artwork is used throughout the website as well as the music video.

The back of the album has the tracklist, copyright information, barcode and the record label. It keeps with the black and white colour scheme and is the same font throughout (except for the legal information at the bottom). There is more image than text on the front cover, but the image is just the background to the text on the back, in which the text is on the higher ratio. The overall colour of the digipak being mostly black relates to the genre of metal which is associated with dark colours such as black or grey.

Analysis of Disturbed digipak

Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways digipak

Artist: Foo Fighters
Album: Sonic Highways
Genre: Rock

The central image is a collage of cities in the US, which relates to the title of the album, Sonic Highways (possibly saying we are all united through music, well America is at least).

The CD itself is black and white, and looks like an old vinyl. It has the album name, the artist, producers and the record label written on it, as well as the copyright information.

The back of the album is almost a blend of the front cover and the front cover. It has the black and white of the CD but with a slightly brown tint like the front cover. It has the record label, an image of the band, producers, barcode, tracklist and the copyright information. The front cover is entirely an image, however the back of the album has more text than images. The use of colour is dark, the use of blacks and browns relate to the genre as Rock is often associated with things that are dark or gritty.

The music video for In The Clear also has this brownish tint.

The Importance and function of digipaks in the music industry

Digipaks are meant to display the artist's brand image, be recognisable to a fan/listener as a product of the artist. It is meant to be clear who the CD belongs to the artist. It is meant to link to the synergy of all of the other aspects of the promotion of the album, which could be the website, or a music video. It is the final product of the promotion of an album, but the beginning of the album cycle. The first thing you notice about an album, before you hear it, before you listen to it, is the way it looks. IT not only is a promotional feature, but it is the product. People want a product to be attractive, for it to look good. It isn't the most important part of the album, as the music is what an album really is at its core, however to have that product in your hands and for it to be visually impressive makes the experience that much more unforgettable. There can be multiple versions (editions) of an album if needed. There can be multiple additional features which make it more special, such as an album sleeve (as shown in Rihanna's album Loud)

or a second disk with bonus tracks or a DVD, such as with Periphery's album Juggernaut: Omega which has a behind the scenes DVD of the making of the album

Summary of class discussion around the importance and function of digipaks to the music industry

In the lesson we saw digipaks from both Rhianna and Lady Gaga. We saw how they are meant to display the artists' images and entice the target audience to purchase the special editions of the album. The example of this we saw was Lady Gaga's album "Fame The Monster". In this we saw that they had multiple versions of the album. This ranged from the original, plain CD all the way to the Gold edition, which contained the most amount of bonus content.  We saw with Rhianna's album "Loud" that she had a bonus CD that came with the original one, as well as a sleeve to help keep the album nice and clean. The album also had artwork inside which spread across three panels, which kept the same themes of the album which was red roses.

We also looked at Adele's website. In this we saw that the first thing you'd see was her announcement video explaining that she is now going on tour for the first time in her career. Underneath that, there were links to purchase her new album "25". We also looked at Krept and Konan's website. In this all it was, was their album cover and links to external websites. This is normally common in other websites.

Editing 6: Return of Camtasia

Feedback to rough cut

This is some feedback from two other media students.

Logo - Jack

Hi

We will be adding the bands logo at the end of the video, which adds to the link between the album cover and the video.

Here's the logo:

Editing 5 - The Project Strikes Back

Our attempts at adding a wobble effect have been a long and difficult trek. We can only hold on to hope as we try to prove that this is not futile.

Enjoy!

Editing 4 - A New FLOP

Hi

Editing our music video for Apposition's song Prisoner. We seem to encounter a new threat which could end us........ THE WOBBLE/WIGGLE EFFECT!

Enjoy!

Editing 3 - Revenge of the FLIP

Hello again, we have even more editing to show you..... Enjoy!

Editing 2 - Electric Bugaloo

Hi there, we did more editing, so check it out.

Second Rough Cut

Hi there, this is our second rough cut of our music video (at the time this was done we had just finished filming)

Filming Bloopers - Tim

Hi

Here are some bloopers from the filming of our music video for Apposition's Prisoner.

Enjoy! :D