The Finished Digipack

The Album Cover














The Cd
















A Lyrics Page














The Tracklisting











Band Photo












Photo of Lead Vocalist (Tom Cox)

Impact of Technology

Our current generation is the most media lenient generation ever. The digital native will use internet everyday with youtube being one of its modern top hits. YouTube supplies a free streaming service and has become one of the easiest ways for artists to market their music and their unique videos to the world. Music videos have become more accessible than ever and clearly the digital native is making frequent use of this. The website averages nearly 20 million visitors per month, according to Nielsen Net Ratings, where around 44% are female, 56% male, and the 12 to 17 year old age group is dominant. YouTube's pre-eminence in the online video market is substantial.According to the website Hitwise.com, YouTube commands up to 64% of the UK online video market.

Yussra and Marwa

Our Website Review

In order to see if our band website was simple and easy to navigate, we asked a number of people to try out the website and give their opinion about the site, what they liked, what they disliked and what we could have improved on.

Below are our results;

"I thought that the design of the website was well thought out and easy to look at. I think that the white background adds to its simplicity and lets me know where the links are on the website. I would mimprove on the amount of images made available, as there are not that many on the wbesite."

Mr Philip, Media Teacher

"A very impressive website. I enjoyed the band biographies and thought that the tour and review section of the website made it feel very realisitic. However, I would have added more links on the website because I think that fans like interactivity."

Bethany Mossop, Media student

Oerall, we are pleased with the feedback we have been given. I felt that I had put alot of time and effort into designing and creating the site, but I am delighted that the feedback has been constructive.

Tom

THE Music Industry

The four 'major corporate labels' that dominate the music industry are Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI. Space was signed to gut records, an independent record company based in London and owned by Guy Holmes who had previously been working for Island Records. The key role in the record company seems to be the A&R department (artists and repertoire). A&R people work very hands-on with the artists that they "sign." When a record label "signs" an artist, it simply means that the artist makes an exclusive contract with that record label.They do everything from assisting with song selection to choosing the people that will produce the album to deciding where the album will be recorded. The people in this department work as the link between the recording artist and all the other departments of the record company.The diagram below shows a basic power play situation in a record company.

Yussra and Marwa

The Final Website!

I have finally completed the website. Click on the image below to check out the website for yourself.

Tom

A Few Additions to the Site...

In order to make the website more interactive for our users, we have decided to include biographies of each band member in order for fans to find out more about the band and what the members are like. Inlcuded in these biographies is the roots of the musicians and how they began playing music and started out as a band. Below are the screen shots for each page. Click the pictures below in order to see the pages in full.

Tom

Band Website Research

In order to find out how a band is able to promote themselves online, I visited many band websites and drew influence and ideas in order to create an effective and informative webpage for our band, The Motion. What I learnt first is that a band website needs to have its links clearly laid out. The users needs to know what they can and can't click as well as being able to find these links on the website. This means that I need to take into account the layout of our website and try not to inlcude too much information on the main page, therefore, confusing the user and not being able to find the links. As you can see below, the website for popular rock band The Strokes has it links clearly laid out at the top of the page. Also, the links font colour differs from any text and so, people can easily distinguish between what parts of the website are interactive.




I also learnt that I need to choose suitable colours for the website. I personally felt that white would be the msot suitable colour as it is easy on the eyes and is more convenient when trying to find the links on our website. I felt that dark colours such as black and grey would make our webpage look morbid and the user may feel like we had more of an 'emo' rock band, rathern than an alternative and so, I think that white is the best choice. I drew this inspiration from the webpage of We Are Scientists, a band who I believe are very similar to the type of band we are trying to portay.






Lastly, a key aspect of band websites is trying to include as many pictures as possible of the band. Many websites included photos of the band, both on photoshoots and during live performances. In order to be creative, I have included individual web pages for each band memebers, complete with a iography and a picture of the band member. The website for dubstep producers Magnetic Man included a picture of all three band members at at the top of the page.

Tom