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Wednesday, 5 October 2016

R + P Post 11: Artist websites that have inspired and influenced my ideas

After researching a few artist and band websites I have come up with a list of conventions they mostly follow:
  • Banner/Logo
  • Menu Bar
  • Search Engine
  • Record Label Logo
  • Sign-In and Register
  • Shop-March and Music 
  • Tour info including the option to buy tickets
  • Press coverage
  • Images and Videos
  • Tour footage
  • Behind the scenes
  • Quizzes/games for the consumer 
  • Background about the artists
  • 'Contact us'
  • social media links for the band/artist
  • subscription options
Websites provide a synergised, technologically converged platform where everything is provided for the consumer via one central hub. The artist/record label is able to promote and market their product (the artist) and sell them as a brand along with their music, merchandise etc. 

Rihanna:









Rihanna's website and brand is evidently very focused on image and fashion. This comes across in her very visual website featuring a hoard of pictures on the home page of her wearing her FentyXPuma collection and images from her concerts.

The website is very easy to navigate around as the left-hand-side bar stays visible on every page. There is a consistent black and white color scheme which keeps the atmosphere sheek and ordered.

One feature of the website that I hadn't seen before on other websites, was the 'Rihanna now' tab. By clicking on this tab, it brings up a calendar of all every event Rihanna-related happening right now or in the future. I think this is a very interesting idea which we could take inspiration from for our website.
I also really like how every social media page is listed on the side bar; this makes it so quick and easy to get to these pages and will therefore get more people involved.

               

After our research, we now know we want our artist/band website to do the following:

  • sell the artist as a brand
  • sell their music
  • be very visual - photos AND videos
  • be informative - tour dates, music release dates, clothing lines, interviews, new partnerships
  • credit the institution
  • be very interactive and easily accessible 
  • sell merch

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