Research Task - Website Analysis
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The National's website features a rotating banner highlighting their latest album and tour, with tabs linking to other sections. The design uses a ripped paper theme fitting their indie genre. Adele's minimalist site focuses on selling her new album through her image and name recognition. Taylor Swift's flashy site targets teens with cluttered tabs, hashtags, and social media links to encourage sharing and drive traffic.
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Research Task - Website Analysis
The National's website URL is derived from the name of their first album, "American Mary". The homepage features a banner cycling through current projects and tabs linking to other sections. All sections are accessible directly from the homepage without scrolling.
Adele's minimalist website focuses only on promoting her latest album "25" and tour through images and purchase links on the homepage. Internal pages display content in full-screen to emphasize her work.
Taylor Swift's flashy website targets teenagers with neon lights, a cluttered tab bar, and emphasis on social media sharing to promote her music and increase recognition. Awards won are also featured to validate her success.
Research Task - Website Analysis
The document analyzes and compares the websites of three musical artists: The National, Adele, and Taylor Swift. It summarizes:
1) The National's website features a banner cycling through current projects and tabs linking to different sections, with a clean black-and-white design centered around a ripped paper theme.
2) Adele's minimalist website focuses on promoting her latest album through its cover art and directing visitors to purchase music or tickets, putting content front and center.
3) Taylor Swift's flashy website emphasizes social media sharing and promotions through hashtags, links, and emphasis on awards, clearly aimed at her target audience of teenage girls.
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The National's website URL is derived from the name of their first album, "American Mary". The homepage features a banner cycling through current projects and tabs linking to other sections. All sections are accessible directly from the homepage without scrolling.
Adele's minimalist website focuses only on promoting her latest album "25" and tour through images and purchase links on the homepage. Internal pages display content in full-screen to emphasize her work.
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2) Adele's minimalist website focuses on promoting her latest album through its cover art and directing visitors to purchase music or tickets, putting content front and center.
3) Taylor Swift's flashy website emphasizes social media sharing and promotions through hashtags, links, and emphasis on awards, clearly aimed at her target audience of teenage girls.
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Artists advert analysis
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Analysis of website
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Website Research
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Website Research
The document discusses the purpose and importance of music websites. Music websites allow artists and bands to promote their music, interact with fans, and keep fans updated on news, tour dates, and releases. They provide credibility for artists and are an important promotional tool. Websites are also cheaper and more flexible than print advertising and allow artists to potentially reach a wider audience.
Website Research
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Music magazine website research
The document provides an analysis of Billboard magazine's website and print magazine. It notes that the website's masthead at the top grabs attention. The website also makes navigation simple through content links and a search bar. Social media links allow interaction. The latest magazine issue can be purchased online. The website provides a variety of entertainment options like music, photos, and charts. Billboard magazine tracks popular songs and albums through charts. It aims to attract both music industry professionals and younger audiences interested in music news. The analysis examines features of the magazine's covers like the masthead, prominent images of celebrities, and consistent color schemes.
Music magazine website research
The document provides an analysis of Billboard magazine's website and print magazine. It notes that the website's masthead at the top grabs attention. The website also makes navigation simple through content links and a search bar. Social media links allow interaction. The latest magazine issue can be purchased online. The website provides a variety of entertainment options like music, photos, and charts. Billboard magazine tracks popular songs and albums through charts. It was originally focused on billboards but specialized in music in the 1950s. The magazine targets both music professionals and younger audiences interested in music news. An analysis of magazine covers notes design elements like mastheads, images of celebrities, and consistent color schemes to appeal to various audiences.
Conventions of website
The document describes several common conventions of artist websites, including:
- Featuring the artist's logo on every page for continuity.
- Including a top navigation bar to easily navigate between pages.
- Displaying a picture of the artist in the center of the page or their album cover.
- Providing links to listen to songs, view music videos, see tour dates, purchase merchandise, read news about the artist, and access social media profiles.
- Placing the record label and copyright at the bottom of each page.
Double page spread
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1) A boy walks down the street late at night and overhears snippets of a conversation from people at a restaurant saying "That boy...What's he doing here? We should have killed him a long time ago."
2) Spooked, the boy walks faster and checks his phone for a signal. Seeing a phone booth, he calls emergency services with shaking hands.
3) A raspy voice on the other end of the line slowly warns "Watch your back" before hanging up, leaving the boy alone and frightened on the street.
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1) A boy walks down the street late at night and overhears snippets of a conversation from people at a restaurant saying "That boy...What's he doing here? We should have killed him a long time ago."
2) The boy becomes panicked and rushes to a phone booth to make a call. When he makes the call, a raspy voice slowly says "Watch...your...back" before hanging up.
3) The boy drops the phone in fear as ambient music and whispers build to a crescendo, leaving the boy feeling paranoid from the strange events of the night.
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3) The film will end on an ambiguous note, with the boy calling emergency services from a phone booth only to hear a threatening message before the call cuts out, leaving the audience unsure of what is real or imagined.
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- 1. Research Task - Website Analysis! The National - americanmary.com ! The URL for The National’s website comes from a song of their first record: ‘American Mary’. Frontman Matt Berninger states: “We never thought of changing the name, although we should have.” This could be seen as bad branding, as the rest of the websites I will be looking at simply use the artist’s name as the URL.! ! The main feature of The National’s homepage is a large image banner that cycles through the band’s current main ventures: their most recent album and their tour documentary. Above this is a tab bar with links to other areas of the website: News, Tour, Media, Releases, People, Forum, Shop, and Follow. Among these are places to consume information about the band’s live appearances, a store to purchase merchandise, and several places to discuss the artist with other fans. The interesting thing about this website design is that all of these different categories are located on the same front page, and clicking on each tab simply jumps you to the relevant part of the page (rather than scrolling).! ! In the ‘News’ section of the website there are various attractions that would be of interest to fans of the band, each with a rollover image (that becomes clearer when hovered over) and anchor text to provide context to the images.! ! The ‘Videos’ section of the website is similarly designed, with a large grid of square thumbnails (depicting live shows, recording sessions and other content) that fills the screen, prompting the user to hover over each rollover image in order to make it clearer.! ! The design of the website is centred around a ripped paper theme, suiting the indie genre of the band while maintaining a clean black-on-white colour pallet for ease of reading (consumption). The rollover images are aesthetically pleasing and there is a nice use of colour in the thumbnails. The website of course is linked in with social media, inviting the user to connect with the band on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with small clickable glyphs in the top right of the front page.! !
- 2. Research Task - Website Analysis! Adele - adele.com ! Adele’s website is very simple in nature. With no scrolling of any sort, the homepage instead shows only the cover art for the artist’s latest much-anticipated record ’25’, with links to various places the album can be purchased. Below this is a bar where users are directed to look at tour information for Adele. Essentially, the front page of the website exists to sell the consumer either music or concert tickets simply through name and image recognition alone, an easy feat for a musician with as much star power as Adele.! ! Once the ‘Enter Website’ hyperlink is clicked the user is brought to another minimalistically skinned page. As the user scrolls through this page, content like live performances and photo shoots are presented in full- screen, sending a clear message that everything Adele does is deserving of an entire screen to display it on.! ! ! The simple design of Adele’s website is (like The National’s) very aesthetically appealing and modern, suiting the classy nature of the ‘Adele’ brand. Opting to hide fluff like social media links and search bars behind a button in the top right, the designers of the website put the content front and centre.! ! !
- 3. Research Task - Website Analysis! Taylor Swift - taylorswift.com The style of Taylor Swift’s website is clear just from looking at the header, with the artist’s name in flashing neon red lights and a cluttered tab bar of links, urging the user to ‘join the mailing list’, ‘buy 1989 now’, ‘connect with Taylor’ etc. This website is evidently aimed at a different audience to the previous two. While The National and Adele are more advertised towards adults, Taylor Swift’s target audience is teenaged girls who can handle a website that throws lots of information at them.! ! ! ! ! As one would expect, Swift’s website places a large emphasis on social media. With eight individual social media glyphs and many hashtags and links scattered throughout the page, it’s clear that the message to Taylor’s teenaged fans is ‘share me’. In the modern pop music world, artists achieve recognition and popularity through hits, so the more traffic is directed to their Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Apple Music, Tumblr, and Instagram pages the more chance they have of becoming increasingly successful.! ! The website also advertises Swift’s recent (slightly controversial) Grammy wins, showing the emphasis placed on winning awards to validate an artist’s success in the industry.