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Existing Websites for Other Music Artists

 

I looked at some other artists' websites to help me gain an understanding of what the conventions are. I have found that the artist almost always has their name at the top of their hompage in a big bold font and it usually goes with a picture of themselves. Eg, the Example homepage above. This makes the original Crystal Castles website even more unusual as they don't have anything like that. This makes me want to provide a more conventional website for the band when I make mine and I will be taking that into consideration. Other artists such as The Cure and Red Hot Chili Peppers, have a design/style rather on their homepage rather than a picture of the band. I think I prefer this and will be taking the inspiration for my own website. All of the websites I looked at have a menu bar including features such as, home, news, tour, videos etc. Other conventions include updates from the artists via Facebook/Twitter, videos and images of the artist and contact details to the artists record label or managment. All of the websites also had a consistent house style, using the same colours and fonts etc.

Existing Crystal Castles Website

This is the current Crystal Castles website. I find it unusual in the way that it doesn't have a 'Home' page and you are directed immediately to the releases page. This may be a reflection of the band as they are altogether seen as unusual. The website is very minimalist with barely any colour. I think this style completely goes with their style of music as it is very raw and fresh. I would like my website to reflect the music and I am also going to experiment with a casual, minimal style and layout.

Ancillary Texts - Website Planning

Other Changes to Video

After editing our music video, me and Ellie decided not to include the opening quote we had planned at the start. Our video is quite fast paced and we wasn't sure whether the quote would fit in with the mood of the video.

Filming

Me and Ellie filmed the main body of our video on the 11th of March, after already filming some shots for the opening quote in February. Shooting went well and the locations were really fitting for what we wanted to achieve.

Cast Change

Orignally, we had Jack Kendall acting as the leader of the cult in our video but unfortunately he could not film. We have replaced him with Katie Huntsman.

Cast in costume:

 Anya Rawling                                         Katie Huntsman                                       Evie Clegg