Website Contribution

Even though myself and Katie had decided on who was doing the Digipak, and who was doing the Website, we still contributed to both.  I worked on many different pages, and either improved, or changed some aspects that could use it. Every decision I made sure it was okay with Katie too.

 On the homepage, I started off by changing the title and making it fit in better with the them, as it was originally red. I then changed the background to a photo I had taken last year on my phone, and edited it so that the skies were amber instead of blue. 
After I uploaded it as the background, I added photos of the band into a slider, so that when the curser goes over them, the pictures get bigger and can slide along. 
I then added a photo of the front cover of the digipak, to advertise it being out in a couple of weeks, and telling the audience to pre-order. 

After I had finished on the homepage, I moved on to the pages that Katie had created, one of these was 'Meet the Band' as I am the original band's photographer, I have many photos of them, so I uploaded these straight off of my camera. 

 Katie had also made a 'Store' tab. I opened this, and saw she had created a jumper for the  bands merchandise. I took the idea and developed it. I created two other t-shirts with band lyrics on them and put them on the page. I added the descriptions of them underneath with the prices. And uploaded the album for pre-order only,as well as this, on wix.com there is a selection of 'buy now' buttons, I added this next to them to make it look more professional 

 T-shirt Design 1
From the song 'Halfway Home'


























T-shirt Design 2
From the song 'Your Hearts on the Floor'

This is what I recreated the title as, as before it was red and in the font 'American Typewriter' which didn't fit in with the theme of our website and digipak. 

Further Digipak Development

After finishing the front and back cover of our digipak, I started on thelast page our digipak and this was going to be pictures of the band, this was the first arrangement, the background was originally black, but against the pictures it looked too bland. I then experimented with the colour, but myself and katie then agreed that this was too colourful and didn't fit in with the rest of the digipak, and also, the arrangement of the photos didn't look professional. 

 I then had the idea of using a photo of Eynsford Castle that I had taken, I experimented with some different filters and saw this one, I thought it would look good if the red was changed to Amber, to fit in with the name of our band. 

I found an amber texture and put it on top of our image, I put the opacity down and it made this, I then used the magnetic lasso tool on Photoshop so that it was just the sky that was amber. 

 I then put the original band photos back into Photoshop and put a Black and White filter over it, I then used the 'Multiply' tool to make it almost see through, so that you could see the background. 

I then realized that one of the designs I had created, of the boy and girl logos, didn't really fit in with the rest of the digipaks design, and plus not all of our band photos fitted on the same page, so I decided to stretch them over two, and then incorporate the band members names on to it so that the use of the other page that was scraped was still incorporated in some way.

I got the idea for the arrangement of photos from the band Asking Alexandria's most recent album, 'Reckless and Relentless' inside, they have photos of the band in a similar style. 

The middle slide is the one most similar in terms of arrangement to mine, but the filters over all of it are the same.