Website Homepage Kasabian

This is the link to my website homepage. I created this as part of my preliminary task.
http://mussonjared.wix.com/kasabianmedia

What the preliminary consists of

For my preliminary task I am working with Christian and we are creating a video for a Kasabian song called Eez-Eh. We are also going to make a CD cover and band homepage to go with it. This will give us some good experience before we go into A2 media studies and I will feel more prepared to work by myself next year because that is what I intend to do.

Textual analysis of stereophonics homepage (website)

Band homepage textual analysis

 

There are multiple links on the homepage of stereophonics’ website to things such as ‘discography’, ‘tour’ and ‘shop’. This means that the main things that the marketing team of the bands website will want people to go on is just a single click away when the website is accessed. Also, the first thing that can be seen is the bands logo and multiple pictures taken from the band’s music videos and therefore the website works as a free constant advertisement for the band. This also gives people that are only just discovering the band a useful way to access the bands back catalogue of music.

 The homepage works well for long-time fans as well because they get to see what’s new with the band and can go back to view older work by the band if they want to. 

The band logo is displayed in the corner of the screen no matter where you are on the homepage; this is to show that the website is official and because of this people will know that they’re guaranteed proper information.

Preliminary Task- Filming experience

Lots of close ups are used in media studies to show that the main focus should be on the artist and that the artist/band is a product that need to be sold and by using close-ups it allows people to be under the illusion that they’re connecting with the artist. By watching multiple music videos it allowed me to realise this and it inspired the music video that me and Christian are making. The opening shot for our music video is a close-up of Christian to show that he is the lead singer of the band; this allows us to easily communicate to the audience, the fact that Christian is the main focus of our video as he is the artist. We have aimed to get many different shot types in our video but this proved to be quite difficult as we are only allowed around a minute of our chosen song. The song that we chose was ‘Eez-Eh’ by Kasabian; we selected this song because it is upbeat and allows us to make a fast paced video. This was a good decision in my opinion because the fast pace of the video allows us to get the shots that we wanted even though we found it difficult at points. Also, the song choice was successful because it is a very current song and most people should know it or at least have heard about it and therefore interest will be created within people that view our music video. We got a high angle shot of both me and Christian by having someone help us because it was easier to achieve with someone holding it than it was by using a tripod in this particular scene.