Progress on Website

I have now finished uploading the edited images onto my 'Gallery' page apart from one which will not upload at this moment in time for some reason. I will give this another go tomorrow and see if it works. I am now moving on to my 'Shop' page and looking at what type of merchandise I can create for the public to buy. I have researched artists merchandise pages http://flotique.florenceandthemachine.net/Store/DisplayFeatured.html    and found that t-shirts are the most common merchandise for sale, along with deluxe edition Cds'. Jewellery, mugs, tote bags and other items also crop up from time to time. I am going to see how many products I can create online with my images and hopefully put them onto my page as merchandise.

Picture Edits

I have edited a few of my images and added them to my site, I now have to more images to add which I will do within the next few days. I have gathered all images the remaining two just need editing and touching up.
Below is a the new images I have edited and added to my gallery.

Some of the images

These a just a few of the images that I took today... all before editing

Photoshoot

Today I organised a time for Stacey to come to my house for some more photos that I could use for my websites gallery. I needed at least 5 more images for my gallery as at the moment it's looking a bit empty, I think I have got at least 8 images I could use I am now just going to edit them and make then look a bit more professional and interesting.

I put Stacey in the dress we used when filming the video for the shoot as it show continuity and can be tagged as a behind the scenes shoot. I also used a hat of my own for the shoot as it is unusual yet very on trend at the moment. I used a variation of backgrounds, using a white wall, landscape wallpaper and the field we used to film in. I am hoping this will add some umph to my images and give them an interesting, variety.

Florence and the Machine Gig

On March the 15th I went to see Florence and the Machine in her first UK Arena tour. As I have previously researched her brand identity and website etc I thought it would be appropriate to take pictures at the gig and show how her brand identity from her first and second album was continued to her tour. I took pitures of the set and noticed how the set was art deco style boards made to look like windows with lights shining through the back changing the colours now and then. Like on her official website the lighting changed through a number of pastel colours continuing the brand identity of her second album and website. I also noticed when Florence performed songs from her first album 'Lungs' the projection onto the art deco window board changed to the image of lungs featured on her first album, the lungs also pulsed as if they were breathing. This was also a continuation of brand identity throughout her albums and websites. Below are the images to show how the set and lighting changed throughout the gig.

 The image below shows the lungs projected onto the windows, this is when Florence performed a song from her previous album 'Lungs'

Art deco design to add some variation

 Pastel colours

Last Lesson

In my last lesson I added another post to my blog on my website writing about the gig that 'Summer Thor' had done the previous night. I am trying to keep updates going on 'Summers' gig to make it look like she is updating her website regularly and interacting with the fans, giving them a sense of closeness with the artist. I have now changed the link to facebook from a link saying 'Official Facebook Page' to just the facebook logo. I think this works a lot better as it is a very well known logo and will catch your eye immediately. 

I now have to arrange a photo shoot with Stacey so I can add some more images to my gallery section of my website and also link in the track to the home page and also the video. I will be uploading the video as the very last thing I do out of all my coursework as I may make some changes right up to the deadline. I also have to finish the interior of my digi pack and try and get the two images to work together, if this doesnt work I will take another image and use the same editing effect for them, making it continuous and neat.

Artist Title

Today I have cut out the text I created on webeden for the font of my artists name and put it onto my digi pack. This will now be the font that is always used for Summer Thors name.