website inspiration

WEBSITE INITIAL INSPIRATION 

Although not a music magazine website I like the layout of vogue and they do cover music so I want to use them as a starting point as many 16-25 audiences interact with vogue, Vogue creates good research for my age range target and the type of things that would appeal to that audience.

NME has a nice categories layout that I would like to incorporate into my final website design I also like the one big image idea, that is seen in several websites. they break the three colours however, opting for one solid colour so I will not be following their theme. 

I like the three column layout with different variety of articles in text and image. the masthead is also classic and I like the simplistic yet timeless feeling to the page. I also like that although their audience is for music, they report on all stories showing a variety of ideas and news. I want to create a website that has similar breaks using lines and sections.

Billboards website uses nice colours and layout again sticking to the three colours and incorporating different coloured backgrounds within the site to show the different sections visually. I like the modern look the website has and all of the individual boxes with the images.

Codes and conventions of websites

INITIAL RESEARCH:

I looked at MOJO, rolling stone, SPIN and billboard and these were initial conventions I found. 

-vartiation in text boxes/ styles some longer stand firsts

When scrolling down the menu collapses and continues to show the logo, this helps to display brand identity throughout the website, I want to try to make something similar.

Websites use images to keep eyes on the pages and gain visual interest, they are all a variety of shots and cover a range of articles from celebrities to hard news.

The colour scheme is consistent across magazine and website, making sure to keep a consistent identity across all media platforms to be identifiable to audiences.

Adverts are a large parts of website monetisation the adverts are targeted towards the music audience meaning my adverts will be in line with the interests of 16-25 year olds.

Other conventions:

one focus image in the centre of stories

Websites usually have a main story where a large image is used I found this to be the case to help with visuals interest in the story, the story was either breaking news in the world or a large music event such as the recent Met Gala.

three columns of news

many websites arrange their website to have three main columns of news with the centre column being the largest and the one with the most photos.

Specific analysis:

FADER ANALYSIS:

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