Photoshoot Camera Practice

 For my website background, I used the photoshoot opportunity in class in order to capture my glitter. I learnt how to use and handle a Digital SLR camera. Here is my first shot where I was trying to focus the lens and balance the zoom:

These were the shots I ended up with, including the focus and zoom balanced with the correct lighting:

Additional Research

 I have been looking at a few more indie band websites to see which elements I would like to include aside from that of my other textual analyses. 

When designing my website, I realised it was missing something. - Having looked at a few more websites I realised I needed a band logo in the header to fill it out but also to act as a link to my home page from my other linked page, rather than a button. I have taken inspiration from the Wolf Alice website with this design:

I have then also looked further at the presentation of my album covers and have managed to include a similar effect to that of the Catfish and the Bottlemen website, where the albums flip covers when the mouse hovers over. This has enabled me to show off my photoshop and design skills in terms of creativity and consistency of brand image:

Inhaler have also just dropped the music video for their latest single 'It won't always be like this' of which combines animation with colours popping at certain points, lip syncing, band footage both live and of showing their fun sides and some clever intertextuality. It prompted me to think about the use of intertextuality in my video and how I could incorporate it as such. They used signs to incorporate lyrics adhering to Goodwin's theory, and also band t-shirts of which I will be trying to also incorporate in mine.