Research Into Website

For our last ancillery task we decided that we were going to make a website, this was because i have done a2 ICT and we feel as though i have the skills to make the website to the best of my ability.

Before i began making the website we had to research into other websites of other girl bands to see what the conventions are and to see what skills i needed to use to make the website look professional and as if it was the website of a famous girl band.

I researched into the Pussycat Dolls website this was because throughout our music project we have tried to emulate them a lot.

As you can see from the print screen above the main image on the website is of one of the main members of the Pussycat Dolls. We are going to try and emulate this by using an image of us as the main focus of our website.

From this image you can see that the name of the band is also a main feature of the website. This is one of the main features on the home page. I feel as though this will be a very good thing to emulate so that the viewers of our website will know what the name of our band is from the very first glance at the home page.

I also researched into the website of Girlicious this was because we have also emulated some of the features of the music video from the Girlicious videos, some of these being the use of a bar in the video, and also the basic walk forward in formation.

From this image you can see that the same conventions are used in the Girlicious website also, the features of the image being the main focus of the website and also the name of the band being in bold and big writing i what we are going to try and emulate.

Both of the websites that i researched these being The Pussycat Dolls and Girlicious have both used colours that stand out and do not clash, this then makes the website look professional. Also we are going to use more girly colours so that it looks like a girls website however we are still going to make it look professional.

Also i researched into Lady Gagas website this was because this is the artist that we are trying to emulate as it is Lady Gagas song that we are using. Lady Gagas website website was a massive contrast to the other websites that i researched. This was because Lady Gaga used a lot of dark colours and based her website around the colour black. This was a lot different to that of the Saturdays which used a light blue background and a lot of girly colours that made it look a lot more femanine. Although we were trying to emulate Lady Gaga we decided that our website would be a lot better if we tryed to make it look more girly as were were not a single artist, we were a girlband. So we decided that using the colour pink would make our website look more girly and girl band -ish. However because we were emulating Lady Gaga we decided that we were going to use a black background to make it so that we were sticking to the conventions of Lady Gaga.