Ancillary Texts

Its important to focus on the whole brief that I've chosen, not just the music video. We had to choose two out of three options:

1. A website homepage for the band

2 A cover for its release on DVD

3. A magazine advertisement for the DVD

I've chosen options 1 and 2. I've  just started to think about the website homepage for the moment. Before I began, I looked at artists of a similar genre home-pages.

For example Daughter's homepage is quite minimalist. I like this simplicity, creating a clean and sharp, professional looking website. I also looked at The XX's homepage, again very simple, yet effective as it is the symbol of their band.

What I noticed about all of the bands homepages was that they all have links, whether to social media such as Facebook or Twitter, also links to buy new music and merchandise. This interactive format allows an easy experience for consumers to learn and purchase from the bands. It is essential that I add these links to my own homepage. 

I have started to make my website using Wix, a free and easy tool to create professional looking website. Here is what I have created so far-

I have linked Blake's Twitter and Facebook, whilst adding a link straight to Itunes, making it easy for consumers to buy his music.  Using another website called Silk I have been able to create these graphic type designs. This makes an interesting and effective design. 

Below is some of the images I have created-

What I need to work on is tying this in with my music video, so that I can create a pack of three works that all correlate to each other. Although there is still a lot of work to be done on all of my projects, I'm really happy with the way its turning out so far.