Nandi Clarke's Media Blog

Website draft idea  Here is a screenshot draft of an idea that i made on "wix" of how we might style our website- https://nandiclarkecouliba.wixsite.com/mysite-3 - on the actual website the background of the skulls is flicking in different colours in a distorted manor.   Here i have taken screenshots of the process of the making of my own website draft , using the website Wix  First i decided on what background i liked and i chose a plane blank skull and made a giphy out of it by adding a distorted glitch effect so the skull almost moves in a fragmented way. Then after i went onto the website wix and added the skull to the website as a background cover were the background would almost move too because i made a giphy out of the plane skull canvas.  Then i added text and a font of my choice to experiment of what type of style of look we are looking for in our website. The website sets the atmosphere and tone of the...

As further research i looked at an example website to gain a clear understanding of what need to the website for our band Here i will be looking at Nirvana as an example  Here Nirvana's website actually has a music video of one of his new releases the background cover of the website. This transfers the message that he is trying to put across to his audience that he wants to be appreciated for his music rather than superficial looks , since in the video once is only features briefly once and the rest is the band playing the music. This a a great way to market their product instantly since the targeted audience is forced to look at their new release on the website since it is more a less in your face which is an eye gripping niche idea because it comes across as more striking. They have all the different social platforms through the use of proliferation hardware content. This is used so that the band is known on other social platforms and easy and accessible to f...

Why Bands ? Artists use websites  It's very valuable for a band/artists to have a website for a wide range of reasons: To share information and content To keep fans and target audiences up to date To share and inform people about the band/artist To promote and sell albums Free distribution To advertise and sell live shows Good advertisement Helps construct an image To advertise and sell merchandise Can update the latest information Free and cheap To get a larger audience Easy for the audience to access Can direct the target audience to the social media To help interact with the audience

Our decided band and album name   Band name - Kings Of The Knight  We had decided on kings of the night because we wanted to find a name that resembles (crown) as a relation to the crown that we will use for the album cover and their music video. We liked kings of the knight because he feel it holds a double meaning, Such as it resembles "night" and "knight" as in knight and charming armur. This creates the star image even further since it allows them to be seen a positive "hero" light to our targeted audience.  Album name - Meridian  we chose this name because we found that this name sounds distinctive and attention grabbing which will make their album noticeable. It also has a correlation with the band name , since Meridian menas peak or( ontop ) witch mimicks the meaning of "crown"

The Decided Album Cover design This design was done by one of my production group member called (Tori). This design is quite similar to mine with the band's faces at the front however we all loved this design because it has a correlation with the music video with the (skull) theme so we thought that the skulls would work nicely. We plan to draw this out professionally on the computer to it looks like a sketch. We also thought that this style of design fitted the bands image and their star image of the genre convention we are following.The band is identified with their own colours in the pictures which resembles their own individual character . Also brings importance to the whole band not just the lead singer.The crowns that are going down the spine of the album artwork is adhering towards a symbolic convention because in the music video he draws a crown to the camera. 

Feedback  In my production group we gave each other feedback on our album sketch , When my production group gave me feedback we realised that our draft digipacks had a lot in common- for example we all put the band at the front and only put the portrait of their faces and essembled there faces in an unusual way, we also had a very similar colour theme for example two of us went for a black and white theme . when i was going through my draft with my production group they had clearly said that i have resembled the "star image" design that i hoped to get across to my audience  - here are some of the feedback notes they gave me.  Maybe change the picture of the models since they are not the main focus  have only one picture as a max with the models since they are only in the music video and we are trying to market the band not the models  not sure about the ivy plant as the spine - doesn't have as much of a correlation with our band theme...

Here is a video i made that reflects the setting and making process of the day befog the shoot day of what we were doing . As a production group we stayed later in the studio to set up the set for our shoot day.

Here is a video made by one of my production group members called Ilana. it is a summary of what went on beg=hind the scenes of the shoot day .

Music Promo - evaluation   of shoot day                                                                                     Me behind the scenes of the shoot day!   To help us be completely equipped for the actual day of the shoot , me and my production group stayed later on Friday in the studio setting up our first set which is the (band). When we were setting up our agreed layout of what we planned it to look like for the band , we were deciding on the choice of the brick wall. Since the brick wall was not a real brick wall it was made out of latex , there were two colours on either side. One in which was a light grey and another which was a dark red fused with the colour of brown. We had decided on the grey brick wall side of the latex sheet , because...

Annotations of my draft album design Here i have done a rough structure of my idea of what our album design could look like. as the from cover I have put an over sized picture of the lead singers face off centre left, And have put the other band member on the right side however it is a close up of a portrait of the side of their faces , as opposed to the lead singer it is still a close up but he is face directly to the camera so therefore revealing his full face. The fact that the lead is the only one who has exposed his full face to the camera and the composition of the photo is enlarged compared to the other three band member , draws immediate focus to the main lead singer and it indicates his importance to the bands consumers. while designing the digipack i had a vision of having the album is black and white since it has a small correlation with the music video since we had used gobo flashing black and white lights on the lead singer and models. However to make it more int...

My first album draft Design  Here i have hand crafted a structure of my initial idea for our album design. i have done a front cover, back cover , inside right cover and inside left cover.

Similar Products that follow the same genre as ours - Indie/Alternative  Here i have picked to albums that resemble the same genre as ours , which is Indie Alternative  1st album - Red Hot Chili Peppers Album - By the way   + 2 album - Nirvana - Nevermind  Below are two album covers of bands that follow the same genre as ours (Indie Alternative) both albums contain the name of the band the , a list of their own songs , the studio and legal information. Both front album covers are showing an artistic abstract image done through editing or painting. For example in Red Hot Chili Peppers they have used an naked outline of a women's figure done creatively in matalic blue , red, purple and light grey colours to resemble their colour theme. As opposed to nirvana they have also used a naked photo of a human figure, however its a baby swimming under water , but the the colours that are used are light blues , dark blue's and turquoise. Bot...