Website Development

Using Wix.com I am currently designing a website for Strio which is up to professional standard, i have included the following so far:

Home Page
Information on Strio (Background Info, Future Gigs)
Contact Details and Booking Information
My Blogger (To Keep up tyo date on Strio Activity)
The Latest Music Video Release (Promotion of our Music Video)
Store of Fan Merchandise (For Fans to Buy Strio Designed Products)

There is still a lot of work to do, since it is aesythetically not quite up to standard and I want to make the website more interactive for fans and audience.

Final Digipack design

 Front Cover

 Back Cover

 Inside Right

 Inside Left

Example of finished digipack with spine.

The Finished Music Video

Rough Edit Screen Shot

This is an example of the editing process. This shows how we edit the video and it also shows the long and difficult process editing is.

Digipack Development

So far we have a first draft of our Music Digipack, since it is only black and white we feel that wec need to add some kind of colour to the cover, since we have some lightning strikes on the cover, I think that by adding light blue colour into the cover it will add some atomosphere and eye catching characteristics to the cover. For instance the picture below is both the perfect colour for our cover and since it is a smiley face it also links to our music video. If we do this with light (like the image below) all we need to do is lower the shutter speed on a camera and get someone to draw a smiley face using lights. It is a simple and effective way of creating an interesting and different CD cover. Or we will photoshop a smiley face into the wall on the CD cover. It makes a subtle and effective link between the music video and the Digipack.

Locations

Our Music Video is set in a school, the location is an important aspect to our video since it involves a school orientated plot. Our target audience is also teenagers to young adults. We found the location difficult to find because Hurtwood House doesn't look like a typical school since it in located in the middle of the Surrey Hills. The ideal location would be a large modern college in a town or city. We couldn't find the perfect location for our Music Video so we had to adapt and therefore used Hurtwood House as our school location, with the help of close camera shots I think we were able to hide the fact that Hurtwood House is in a forest. We did this by having close ups of the characters faces near bricks and walls so that the audience do not notice the trees and greenary.