I have been rethinking my approach to the website aspect of my project. I agree with Rod in his thinking that there is no need for my website to function as a 'music news/reviews' site, in the same vein as NME.com's layout. Instead it could be even more minimalistic than its current form, mimicing a gallery. I have been looking for inspiration online, and have come across the Saatchi Gallery website.
I love the way the website is simplistic yet striking, no-nonsense and straight to the point. If I can hone my Flash skills, I would love to make a similar looking website. Simplistic but sleek and futuristic. 3D graphics buttons and the like.
As I've mentioned on here before, I also really like Kill Pixie's online gallery. The only danger in taking an approach like this is that then, the work becomes far more about whether or not the 'artwork' is good or not, and less about what each image can achieve as a translation. When approaching my pilot, I felt that I needed to put it in a contemporary journalistic context, because what I was aiming for was a replacement for the current format. The images are reviews in themselves, and the way you display reviews on the internet is on music websites like Pitchfork or the NME, who both utilise this blog-like, rolling, up to the minute layout, in chronological order of events.
As far as my pilot is concerned, it was a little disjointed in that I tried to incorporate the 'news' aspect by just using an RSS feed (which I thought was rather clever in that it was upto date as of whenever the viewer saw it) and keeping the 'reviews' separate in a kind of gallery-esque medium. So I think I need to decide on one or the other. At the moment I think it's more likely to echo a gallery. I would like a sense of chronology involved though, otherwise it becomes too static, which isn't particularly reflective of the industry I am critiquing.
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