Website so far....

I am working on a website with my group member May, because during one of our lessons whilst discussing website planning, we were coming up with the same kind of ideas and have the same overall idea for a website.

This first picture is our 'Opening' page, showing a big picture of our main star Diamond Clark and at the top showing all the pages available to the viewer. 





This is our 'Gallery' page. We made the pictures significantly large to promote the image and entice the fans into admiring our stars image. When hovering over the arrows on either side, the pictures move along the screen slowly. This I feel is a simple layout that is hopefully easy to use. 

This image is of our 'home' page. When looking at artists examples of home pages it was clear that the traditional home page offered a whole load of information that you could click on that would take you straight to the page. May and I have decided to also follow this format and this is what we have done so far. 

Overall, I feel that so far our website is going quite well and I believe it looks very professional! 

I got my Mother to 'Preview' the website and have a look around to see if she could easily navigate around the website. She said that she found it fairly easy to navigate around and her computer skills aren't amazing! So this gives me hope that our website will be successful!

Examples of Artists Websites.

Taylor Swift Official Website. 

This is her opening page and I really like the idea of an opening page with just a picture and a few minor details of the star and their album. I want to use this format on my website as I feel it will be quite effective as it was when I saw this particular one. 

This is her gallery page.

This is her merchandise/store page which is a completely different style to the rest of the website. When you click on this it also opens a new tab. 

News and events page - Showing latest happenings about the stars life. This is very informative for the fans and they know that any information on this website is legit. 

Examples of Artists Websites.

Rihanna Official Website

Tour Dates- Simple displayed so easy for the fans to choose a date!

Home page which again shows a bit of everything that the website has to offer. 

I really like Rihanna's website because I feel the overall look is very simple and easy to follow. When making my website I want to add this simple layout and structure to mine as I feel it is easier to follow and has a more professional look. 

Examples of Artists Websites.

Ed Sheeran Official Website

When first opening up the website a window came up advertising and offering to buy Ed Sheerans new album to entice fans to buy his album. This is an excellent example of promotion!

This is a page promoting merchandise which is called the 'Store'. This again is a good way to entice fans into not only buying into the music but also extra merchandise which expands their interest in the star artist. 

Tour dates on show again to entice people to buy a ticket to see his concert further selling his music and image. 

Home page with a mixture of everything form the other pages!

I especially like this home page and i want to use the same idea where everything is accessible from one page as well as clicking on the links. 

Group Meeting

The meeting today occurred during a filming session.
Today as a group we realised that our narrative worked better with just a single male and female lead characters. We have changed our narrative so that the male and female lead characters are in a relationship with each other, but they argue a lot and it turns out is can be quite an abusive and violent relationship.
As a group we still decided to keep the idea of the girl ending up pregnant. This provides a twist so the story isn't so obvious and un-original.

Editing the pictures.

After the photo shoot my group did I went home and decided on the pictures from the shoot that I wanted to use for my ancillary products. I used my iPhone to edit some of them using an app called 'Insta-Editor'. Here are some examples of the original and edited version.

Photoshoot Pictures....

The pictures we took on this photoshoot will help us when creating our websites and digi packs!

Photoshoot!

Today my group decided to do our photo shoot to use in our websites and digital packs. We found a pretty spot in the centre of school and decided that this was a suitable location. This photo shoot went very well as we managed to get a wide variety of different shots of our main star Josie. 
For this photoshoot, Josie wore edgy clothing that portrayed her relatable character. 

Factfile of Main start Diamond Clark!

This is a factfile of our main star Diamond Clark, performed by Josie Crandley. As you will be able to see, we have made sure that our starts image is quite different to that of Taylor Swift's.

Filmling location 4!

This day of filming was again filmed at the lovely but freezing Richmond Park. Here we captured the majority of our footage of Josie singing the song. But we also managed to get many filler shots throughout the filming session. The sunshine on this beautiful day worked in our favor as it is different to the snowy scenes we see before which represents a change in time. 

When filming on this day we were determined to get all the shots correct and get as many as possible. We planned out what shots to do with the teacher before we left for filming. 

We did manage to stick to this plan and got lots of footage to put towards our music video.

THE LOCATION SHOTS...

Again I think that Richmond Park was a lovely place to film as the atmosphere and mise-en-scene seems romantic and fresh, which would be enjoyed by our target audience.