Website research

Over the weekend I have been looking at similar artists and their websites to gain influence for ours.

little mix are a very similar band to ours as they are both pop and a girl band.

I like their website becauses the main focus is of them as a band, the background is images of them that change when you hover over them. another thing i really like about their website is that the have a 'The Girls' section allowing the audience to get up close and personal with each of the members. This would be great for us as we all have our own personalities and we are a new band.

The colours of this website home page are subtle and cool. It contains their logo at the bottom center and the links to other pages on their website. when scrolling over the videos link the page changed to this layout...

This is more vibrant and colourful, and goes with our band a lot more. they are also all wearing colour co-ordinated outfits like we do. 

when clicking on the The Girls page you are taken to a page split in to four sections for each member, they look serious and it is in black and white making them look sophisticated. 

when scrolling over each picture it changes revealing the girls name and a more humorous childish photo breaking the the intense feel and showing that they are a fun band, i like this idea and design a lot and think we should do something similar on our website.

         

Another similar band are  they are also a pop girl band. Here is there website. 

This website focuses mainly on the music of the band, after they recently lost one of there members to suicide they made a song in her memory called light house, the music video for this song is hugely influences by the use of lights, this is reflected in the layout and design of the website. i like the way their latest music/videos influence the layout of the website.

Another band similar to ours is the saturdays, I am not really drawn to this website as to me it seems really cluttered and too overpowering it is also hard to navigate. 

The last website i looked at was for the band M.O their website was all on one page and the links just took you to a section further down saving you scrolling, i like this as it is easy to navigate but it feels to much like a blog.

here is a quick mock up design that i created for our website with huge influence from all of the mentioned websites, it contains a large image of us with a white border with our band name a button to our music and links to our social networking.