Harry Waters's media blog

As a group we are hoping to try and complete as much as we can before we go away for christmas and if possable be finished completely before we go away. Earlier this week I made my first draft of our website. These photos are the first draft that I've created.

Although at first the tame Impala website doesn't seem that impressive with just the album artwork of all their songs and past albums. However when you notice that the album artwork starts to move.


Once on the website there are a few ways in which they play around with it. We can clearly tell that their hompage is mainly focused on thier artwork and this is what they are trying to show of. This is done in two ways to create a very interactive page. They have first done this by enabling us to move the home page around to see all of thier artwork. They also let us click on the artwork which allows us to see it in more detail. this helps to create a star image for the band as it doesn't show them themselves so there is a greater demand for them when it comes to seeing them live as they are not seen very often in other ways such as on their website.

A website is used by a band for several reasons. -


Firstly they use websites to To inform the fans. This is an effective and free way of advertisement and letting them know of upcoming events. They are also used to  Sell merchandise and promote and sell album which would gain the artists themselves more money. this is also done by selling thier tickets on their website for their live shows. This is also useful especially for smaller artists as people will then be able to contact them and try and talk to them about future signings and performances that they can do. And finaly it is a direct link to the audience going well with Dyers star theory making them easily accessable to see however still not completely accessible.

 Because of the amount of time it took me to do the other parts of the album artwork I decided to draw the inside. Here I drew a close up of the artists face and also what is supposed to be paint dripping down a blue background.


I chose the multi couloured background for my front and back cover as it goes with the genre that our song is based in. This is similar to all of the albums that we have been looking at as well as the patterns that have come from the other albums. I decided to mix in the strage photo that we get of the artist with the pattern as this is the main focus in most of the album artworks that my group and I have looked at. After my group and I looked at my album in comparison to the other we all had reletively similar ideas about the patterns and the photo of the artist however we decided to go with a mix of Guy and Seans design.

Last week we shot our video. We started setting up on Friday afternoon however Sean couldn't be there when setting up the first set that we were going to use as he had an open day to attend. This made it difficult to complete making the set as we had a limited number of people to help with the making of the set and we also had less time as Friday is a shorter day for us and me and Guy couldn't stay later to carry on making it. so this meant that we came in a little earlier on the day and set up the final parts of the set whilst the girls were getting into thier costumes.


We worked on the first set until 12:35 and worked on making sure we got all the shots we needed in this set. We then came back after our lunch break at around 1 o'clock to create our second set. This was also a very basic set and didnt take long to set up. We filmed on this set for about an hour and a half until the ice cream van arrived. Me and sean then went down to the van to have a look and see what shots we might be able to film here and get ready whilst Guy stayed up in the studio to get the last few shots with the artist and the dancers.

 At three we finished completly in the studio and moved on to filming outside with the ice cream van. Here we started by filming the girls in their tracksuits in all black for the start of what our music video would be. We filmed this for about 40 minuits running through the song around 6 or 7 times. We then wanted the characters to then be dressed in thier differnt costumes to link the video together. Whilst the characters were changing my group and I went and shot the cut aways of the van such as the headlights and the signs on the van.