This document discusses the key features and pages that should be included on a band's website. It analyzes the official website of the band "Jet" and identifies elements such as: a masthead with the band's name and album art, links to other pages, photos of the band, a discography, blog, social media links, a video of a live performance, information about upcoming shows and ticket sales. The document recommends including these same standard features on a website for another band to effectively promote the band, share their music/history, and connect with fans.
2. Jet official website
This is the home page of the website.
It features:
• Masthead
• An album cover
• Lack of text
• Links to their other pages
• Bright colours
• Login and register buttons to the page
info
• Fire is featured with graphite on the
Possible ideas used for my own website
van to suggest a rebellious young
culture
The use of graffiti in this piece, is
representative of youth so I would want to
use that in my final project because it
represents rebellion in young people
3. The bands name takes up a vast amount of
the framing on the home page. This is
because it promotes the band name and
franchise
Therefore I will want my masthead of the
website to take up a vast amount of the
frame to emphasise the bands name.
4. These links show all the different links on the website so I want to include all of
these on my website because it then shares all the same feature of really
websites.
5. This bio is important for the bands website because it gives background information on
all the band members and it informs the audience about what they do in the band.
Also it has a picture of the band on this so it can show visuals on the band as the
audience reads about them.
Therefore I will want to use this in my website because it will help me give lots of
background information on my band for the audience.
6. This is the discography of Jets website. Over their entire career they made only five
albums which are all shown here, so the function of this page is to show the audience
about all the different albums they have made as a band.
A discography is present on nearly every bands website which means on my website I
need to have one that shows all my bands albums.
7. This is the bands official blogging system which is used to inform the
audience about all the different activities the band are doing but also so
that their audience can send them messages and feedback.
This is a very useful feature so I will include one on my page so that I can
get feedback from the audience.
8. This is jets twitter page. They use it because there are millions of
people that use twitter so it is a great way for their band to
advertise themselves on the web, so they can get more followers
and so fundamentally get more publicity which means more
money.
Therefore because I will also include a twitter and Facebook page
on my website because it is a modern way of communication
through technology which it very modern (like my band) and also
because it is a very good way to publicise our band
9. This is a video of the band performing one of their songs which informs
people who don’t know about the band, about what their sort of genre is
and their style as a band. But it is also used to keep the audience they
already have interested and up to date.
Therefore I will have a video of my band on the website performing to
entertain my audience and to inform them about all the above.
10. The band also has a community page which shows a picture of all the people who
are fans of the band and a all the people that are associated to the band in some
way. I.e. a band member, or part of the roadie crew. This page is also important
because it helps the band to know how many followers they have which means
they will get feedback from them.
Therefore I will include a similar fan page on my website so that my band know
what the audience are like and if they follow the image of the band.
11. This is arguably one of the band most important pages because it is the first place
people will see if the band is gigging or not. If so, where and what time and the
price of the tickets. This is an important way of insuring that the band have sales.
This page must therefore be included on my website because it is the most
important way of informing the audience about gigs they are doing which is also
one of the most valuable ways to make money ion the band.
12. This is an important page on the website because it shows the audience
about all the recent activity in the band. i.e. interviews with the press and
gigs they have played.
This is a useful page to have on my website because it informs the audience
about all the recent activity that my band has just gone through.
13. This page shows the audience
about available tickets for sale
and how you can apply for
them.
Therefore I will include this on
my page because the audience
need to be able the purchase
the tickets on the site and this
page will allow that.