Ancillary tasks ideas and research

As part of the project I have to create two other tasks, I have whittled down the options to either a digipack or a poster for the band and a working website homepage for the band.

Here you will see that I have collected examples of all three types of band documents and have noted of what I like and do not like about these documents and what I would do similarly or differently.                        


                                  

                                                             Here are some examples of a band poster to advertise their latest gigs or album release, I really like the colour scheme for all the posters as they all follow the same sort of idea a black or very dark background with white or light grey text and tag lines like on The Pretty Reckless posters (the first two images to the left). I ideally like the idea of the main image aligned in the centre of the poster with the name of the band either above or below, as it shows the authority of the band (if the name is placed above the image) or shows that the band members themselves rather than just the band name (if the name is placed below the image of the band).
I like that the colour scheme of each band and the photo colours go well together, for example the Black Veil Brides advert (3rd image down) fits really well with the stage makeup of the band as they are famous to have over dramatic black stage makeup all over their bodies. I feel if I were to do this task myself I would incorporate a link between the outfit and mood of my main model (who will be the same guy as my main protagonist) to match the decided colours of the rest of the poster as I feel this coordination within the poster gives a more professional look to the poster.

Here with the Black Veil Brides poster they have the image spread across the centre of the poster with the black background blending into the black of the band members hair. I feel that the use of vibrant colours on the website and the dates allows the audiences attention to be instantly drawn to the key information, I feel that this works well to entice the reader of the poster to buy a ticket, I will be using this method in my own poster as I feel it would work well with the genre stereotype of black and dark colours and to contradict and contrast that can sometimes work really well to possibly widen the target audience of the band.

Here are some examples of digipack's and how they work with the album artwork and the functionality of the digipack to ensure that the CD within it stays safe.

Personally I really like the Linkin Park digipack as it uses a monochrome/black and white filter on the images used within the pack. I also really like the idea that the inside images within the digipack is the same image spread across the three different folds of the digipack. I also like the idea of having inserts within the digipack so the user or recent purchaser of the digipack gets a little surprise as they open the pack for the first time.
The Pretty Reckless digipack differs as they use three different images on one pack, one for the front cover, one for the back cover and one for the CD and the inside of the pack, personally I am not too keen on the use of so many images on one small product so I doubt I will use this technique in my design.

Here are two examples of band website homepages. From having personal experience of creating many websites I knew I was going to create this product first as I am very comfortable with the process and the software to create the website.

The first website for Asking Alexandria had to be zoomed out so you could actually see the majority of the homepage, I do like the content of the website having interactive image hyperlinks on the homepage to guide the user through the website, however I am not too keen on the idea of having to scroll so far down the page to find information, through studies it has been shown that if a user of the website cannot gain information after looking at the page for half a minute they will try another website, and the majority of 'clicks' on a website are at the top where the user is first taken, and through personal use I rarely bother to scroll right down to the bottom of a page, once I have my information I'm done and on to another page. This is why I like the Of Mice And Men home page more despite the large gap at the top of the page (however a recent advert had just been taken down from the website) I feel having a shorter yet wider website shows the reader almost all of the content of the page all in one go, which for lazy users is just what we want, so this is exactly what I will be incorporating into my own website.

My main idea to show that all of these products are linked not only will I use the same actor from my music video yet I will also use the same colour scheme and (hopefully) the same fonts throughout the three different products I will end up creating too.