Website drafts

I played around with different effects for my background, I decided to do three different images and tile them as a background. On Ellie's Goulding's website, she has added colour and dual tones, to make it more exciting. I thought this was a good idea and decided to do a similar theme for mine.

These are the three different edits I did, by using Pixlr.

I like this one, as it is vibrant and bright, but I thought it might make it look more youthful, also it is more significant of a dance pop genre than an indie pop genre.

I also liked this once, as it is girly, and has a subtle mixed tone, however, as it is a pink, blue and slightly purple, I thought this would look too much like Ellie Goulding's as she uses similar colours.

I chose to use this one, as it is quite bright, it doesn't hide any of my features. It is something that people will remember.

Filming 15/1/14

We attempted to correct some of our mistakes in our video. We wanted to make sure our videos were more stable, as this was a criticism given to us by other members of the class. Therefore, we got a tripod, we spent time trying to make sure it was straight and not at an angle. We were able to practice with the tripod and see what we could use, a d learned how to assemble it ourselves, which is a good thing. We enjoyed learning how to use new equipment, and we understand how this will make our video look much better.

Digipak image

In today's photoshoot I was able to get the image I wanted for my digipak.
I like this as I am using direct gaze. In media studies and our research, when looking at audience theory, you want your artist to connect with their audience, by staring at them directly it acts as though you are creating a personal relationship and attracting them to buy your product. This is what I want to come across within my digipak. I like it being on the bed, as I think our album will be called, 'Wake me up' and in the 'Everytime you go' video it is based in a bedroom. Therefore I felt this would be the most appropriate setting for my picture.

Digipak Photoshoot

Digipak Photo's

To link our digipaks and websites together, we used the same outfit, to show that it is all connected and will be associated with the artist at this period of time. We wanted to link our digipak image to the title of our album and the music video. Therefore, we used the bed, and used me laying down, as it is called 'Wake Me Up' and most of our scenes in Every Time You Go is set in the bedroom.

Website photoshoot

Website photoshoot

Here are the images that we took that we will use for our websites. At the moment, we're not entirely sure on which one each of us wants for our background. However, we made sure we had a variety to chose from opposed to all of them looking the same. From our research we learned that most websites do use their artist as the background, but they always look dressed up and posed. This is something we paid attention to, as in our video our outfits are everyday and normal, so we used a dress and emphasised hair and makeup to make it all look professional.

Website ideas

Here is a prezi of some of our ideas on what we want to include on our website. These are just generalised as although we are working together, we will have our own interpretations of it.  By putting together collective ideas, it benefits our final pieces, as it means our ancillary tasks and music video will link. We may also decided to make each of our websites look like they each link with one another like they are part of a set.

 

Website - Getting used to the software

We found a photo on the mac that we was using to help us get some ideas before our photo-shoot for our website, this has influenced some of the ideas we want. By doing this we have got used to the software, as we know how to move, edit and add things onto it. This will benefit us in creating our final website, as it means we understand what tools do what, how to add pages and give us an idea of what we want our final piece to look like