Isabel Busk A level Media

To prepare for creating my own band website I need to research what makes a good band website, to do this I am going to analyse some existing band websites to see what common features they have. First I am going to analyse Imagine Dragons website. This is the first thing you see when you enter Imagine Dragons website. Straight away it is obvious the website has a set colour scheme of mainly turquoise and white. Two fonts can be seen as well which gives it a professional, clean look because too many fonts can look messy and unorganised. When you scroll down the homepage the first thing you see is the official merch, I think this is key because one of the main reasons people go to band websites nowadays is to look at merch. They no longer need to go to the band's website to access their music because of platforms such as youtube and spotify. On the bar at the top of the homepage underneath the band name you can see the social media icons on the left side, h...

For my music video I am taking inspiration from two music videos from different artists: The 1975 - Love it if we made it The 1975 are an English band from Manchester that started in 2002. Genres of their music includes indie, pop rock and electropop. I am going to analyse their music video for 'Love it if we made it' from their most recent album released this year. Although this music video has many political references I will be drawing more focus to the stylistic motif of the music video instead. The second half of the video is different in terms of its style and colour scheme and creates a contrast. The colour scheme has a cool tone and has more of a realism approach than the first half of the video. This shot is an intertextual reference to the artist Micheal Jackson and his music video for thriller. This shot appears normal until the glitch at the end with the man wearing pink glasses, I want my music video to appear normal with glitches and disori...

Before I began to prepare and film for my music video I had to pitch my idea to my media teacher, I made a page of notes to refer to in the 5-10min pitch describing different aspects of the music video. The song 'Wasteland' is in the punk genre so I researched the typical conventions of this genre, my music video is unlikely to have these typical convention that I listed above. The aim of my music video is to show the toxic relationships in someones life, this includes their relationship and friendships at school. These friendships will be at school because my target audience will be 16-25. The music video will be split into two halves and then come together at the end. I will develop a call list to organise when I will be filming over the next few weeks. My band/artist will be called 'Static Energy' to link to the aesthetic that I am going for throughout my coursework.