A2 Media: January 2013

Evaluation Q1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Below I have shown my answer to question one through a Youtube video:

Photograph Plans

Below is all the photograph preparations that I have created for the website.

Rough Design Sketches

To begin with I created a number of design sketches for each of the pages of my website. My ideas were influenced from my own general knowledge and what I throught would look good.

About Page & News Page

Music Page & Connect Page

Gallery Page

Lyrics & Connect Page

Store Page

Final Design Sketches

These are all my final design sketches for my website. Whilst some are similar to my rough design sketches, others contrast greatly because of the influence I had from other websites. Next to each picture, I have disclosed briefly what each page features.

Enter Page

This page includes the following:
- Enter Button
- Artist Logo
- Picture of Big Quan
- His Name

Home Page

This page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar
Advertisement of his newsletter, tumblr, pinterest new debut album and single
- Latest News
- Music Playlist
- Connect Section to numerous social networks
- Various Links to Buy the single and tickets for the tour

Biography Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar
- Information about Big Quan
- Pictures of Big Quan
(relating to everything written on the page)

News Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar
- Advertisement of his Brand New Album
- Current and previous News
- Future Events Section - Tour, New Single and music video
- Various Links to Buy the single and tickets for the tour
- Connect Section to numerous social networks

Music Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar

- Advertisement of his brand new album

- Listing of all his albums & single as well as Exclusive songs

- Link to Buy the Music Online

- Playlist of the album

- Pictures of artists he's worked with

- Connect section to numerous social networks

Gallery Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar

- A number of pictures of Big Quan whereby he is shown at interivews, backstage of shows, photo shoot, performances, concerts and in the studio. There is also edited pictures of him.

Videos Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar

- Pictures of Big Quan

- Music Video of his hit new single 'Always on my mind'

- A number of videos such as his music videos, interviews, performances, concerts, on the radio, backstage footage and behind the scenes of his new hit single.

Connect Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar

- Picturs of Big Quan

- Connect section to numerous social networks

- Online Blog

- Advertisement of his brand new album, upcoming tour and newsletter

Store Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar

- Advertisement of the release of his Brand New Album

- Connect section to numerous social networks

- Titles of all the different merchandise he sells

- Pictures of all of his merchandise and the prices

Lyrics Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar

- Advertisement of his brand new album, newsletter, tumblr and Pinterest

- Lyrics to his new hit single 'Always on my mind'

- Listing of all his albums and songs

- His new album picture and the tracklist

- Connect section to numerous social networks

Newsletter Page

This Page includes the following:

- Header: His Name and Menu Bar

- Advertisement to sign up to his News Letter

- Sign Up section to his newsletter

- Advertisement of his brand new album and merchandise

- Connect section to numerous social networks

Page Flow Diagram

This is the Page Flow Diagram that I produced to show what pages will link to one another on the web page.

Colour Scheme & Font Ideas

This is the colour scheme and font that we have on our digipak. We also intend to have these same plans used for our website.

Font and colour from clwp_cloe06

Ideas Brainstorm

Below are all the plans I have for the website. However, as I go along some ideas may be developed or changed.

Websites of My Genre

Another research task, I had to undergo was researching into websites of my own genre. Below is a presentation showing two artists websites that I have analysed.

Website Research - Analysis of Genre Websites from LarelleShay

I found this task highly beneficial because it broaden my imagination in terms of ideas, for the website.

Evaluation of A2 Students Website

Whilst researching into existing artists websites, I also had to evaluate other A2 students website. I think it was good that I researched this because it allowed me to see what other students who are doing the same course as me were doing, their ideas and the capabilities of producing a website. The website creator they used was called Wix and was really effective. Therefore,I'm going to use the same software becuase I've seen how advanced it is. It also will allow me to show my creative skills that has developed throughout my media course.

Evaluation of a2 students media website from LarelleShay

Note - Due to the downloading process of my file, some pages have duplicated by accident. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Website Analysis & Explanation

Below are my findings, after researching into numerous websites that vary in genre.

Website Research from LarelleShay

Construction Steps

Below is a presentation of the construction steps of our digipak.

Digipak Construction Steps by clwp_cloe06

Test Photographs

Here is another contact sheet of the test photographs we done of our artist. We intend to use a number of these photographs on our website.

Test Photos by shannontiana

Photograph Plans

Below is a number of pictures that we have taken to be used for our ancillary tasks.

My group and I choose the best photographs to put on a contact sheet and as you can see we have used a range of shots and angles of our artist. This gives us a variety to choose from when creating our digipak to begin with.

FINAL PICTURES by clwp_cloe06

Here is the photo plans that we have made for our digipak.