Creating Homepages

We were asked to create a band website that would help advertise and promote the artist or band to the audience. From my thorough research in my previous posts and pages, my group and myself have decided to find different ways we can represent Kid Cudi as a youthful artist and successfully promote his latest songs, tour, videos and information and show this within the appearance of the websites design.

Wix formally stands for Windows Installer XML which is free software that allows people to build their very own website that they can personalize to the specifications. They can design the layout to represent their requirements of the business or purpose. Once the designer is happy with the design of the site they are eligible to buy a private domain to launch the business or personal use.

Definition in more depth from Wikipedia:

“The Windows Installer XML (WiX, pronounced “wicks”), is a free software toolset that builds Windows Installer (MSI) packages from an XML document. It supports a command-line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages. WiX was the first software released by Microsoft under an open-source license called Common Public License.

The WiX distribution includes Votive, a Visual Studio add-in that allows creating and building WiX setup projects using the Visual Studio IDE. Votive supports syntax highlighting and IntelliSense for .WXS source files and adds a WiX setup project type to Visual Studio.”

This is a screen shot of the Wix homepage which immediately shows the audience was Wix is about bus the main headings, subheadings and screen shots of what to expect within the site.

 

These are a list of what types of themes are available with Wix, as we are creating a band/artist homepage we needed to search through the music themed layouts on Wix which would help us gain more inspiration on layout and web design.

I searched through all the themes in the music section and came across this layout design called Mix.Master which I believed looked the most professional out of all of them.  Once we had the basic layout from Wix.com I customized the layout to suit our artist Kid Cudi. Kid Cudi tends to use dark colours after observing his official website. (See image below)

After looking at Kid Cudi’s official webpage and using our template I decided to use the colour scheme red, grey and black so both Kid Cudi homepage contrast well together showing development.

This was the fist experiment that I did, creating the first visual view of the design. I wanted to use a dark but eye catching red against the black so the colours stand 0ut well against each other. The found a image on Kid Cudi which I placed in the center as a temporary image. Which will be replaced once we gathered correct images of Dom from the filming processes.

Analyzing the editing progress

When we had thought we had nearly completed the music video, we realised when we were editing that some gaps were missing as we under estimated how long the shots were compared to the timing of the music. Therefore to make things much easier for us and more time efficient we began to analyze the editing progress comparing it to the lyrics sheet and found a way of working out where the missing shots are in comparison to the song sheet. By doing this we have successfully worked out what shots are needed to re-film so we can complete the music video for the deadline in time. Modey and I sat in the editing suite and listened to the song lyrics carefully. Looking back at our story board in the planning process we were eligible to figure out what scenes are needed and how long then should roughly last for. This makes it much easier for us to meet up again and tell Dom exactly what to do. In results when it comes to editing the final touches (Editing 4) the editing will be much easier to complete as we have the perfect length shots.

This is a photo that I took of modey on Sony Vegas watching our video and working out the estimate time that we need to complete unitl the music video is finished. He listened to the music and watch the shots and anaylsed the lyrics sheet, creating our lyrics sheet into a story board. So we all can read the song sheet and immediately imagine what shots needs to be repeated and how long for. I helped modey with this process and dicussed what shots we can use and where the next location should be held.

This is the first sheet of the lyrics that we analysed together. As you can see from this image we have highlighed exactly where any animation should be held and agreed that the chorus should have a new location which can be repreated.

As you can tell from this sheet, we decided to use the cloning effect towards the end of the song as we felt this would make an every interesting ending. We have also took our words of this lyrics sheet and made sure our narrative was inspired by the language used within this song. As we wanted the narrative and the music video to match which is called disjuncture and amplification as these are the two types of techniques that we used to generalise our overall music video.