Subsidiary Task: Website Construction

For one of our subsidiary tasks we have chosen to create a website for our chosen artist. This is going to be created on wix.com I have used wix before and found it simply and easy to use therefore it seemed the best website generator to use.

We had already analysed other artists websites and had a list of clear conventions of our genre that we feel are best complied with.
We have chosen to use a grey and red colour scheme, this is because on other websites we looked at the background and general fonts were simple colours and there were some bright colours that stood out against the duller colours. We felt that red was a good colour to choose as the narrative to our music video is about love and red connotes love. The grey, black and white colours are basic and create a simplistic design, also the colours are coherent with our other tasks. For example our music video will have a large majority of the clips in black and white, making you concentrate on the storyline and the more important elements of our video.
After analysis of the other music websites we were able to recognise some very common pages to feature in the menu bar of the website and we felt that the most common positioning of the menu bar is generally across the top horizontally. Therefore we chose to position our in a similar place to be placed under the artists name which will be displayed across the top of the page. Also on our home page we intend to include the main task; our music video. We realised after looking at different music website it was conventional to have their latest music video placed on the home page and as we are creating a music video we felt it was probably best to use this on our home page to create continuity between the texts.
The pages that were most common on other existing artists music video were:

• Info page
• Gallery
• Music