Website Technologies Used

Media technologies were essential in the construction and research, planning, and evaluation stages of my media products. 

My website required the integration of many technologies to ensure its success. Perhaps the most important was the use of the website building site Wix , as it's one of the easiest website builders to use for free on the Internet. However, this does mean that a few of its features I found restrictive, and there's an annoying advertisement for Wix on the completed site.

This lightbox's flickering TV effect was achieved by using a GIF I found on Giphy.

I used this because a major theme within my music video and CD pack is that of a glitchy, flickering TV, therefore I knew that this would tie the three products together.
Another interesting way I used media technologies throughout the website was this blinking eye GIF I created.

To do this, I used After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Giphy. 

On After Effects, I drew each individual frame of the eye blinking, before using Premiere Pro to reverse the footage of the eye blinking, and create the eye's open and shut effect.

Finally, I exported the footage as a video, and used this video to create my own GIF on Giphy, before uploading the GIF to my website multiple times to create the final effect. Another interesting addition to my website is that if you click on this particular eye:

It brings the user to a separate page, which I did mainly to increase fan interactivity and to provide an immerse experience for the fans.

First and foremost, the text on the page is in reference to the fact that a band member left fairly recently; an issue that has been well-publicised on the band's social media. The pixel images I created on a site named Piskel, where users can create their own pixelated GIFS, and these show the band's leader singer and a character referenced in the CD booklet I created.

Possibly my favourite aspect of the Website I created was the shop page, where I got to design Toxic City's merchandise! 

I really enjoyed this process, taking different elements from the music video and CD pack and incorporating them into the design process. To create each picture, I first sourced images of plain shirts/jackets/etc:

From here, I opened the images in Adobe Photoshop and editing them using my graphics tablet to display the design I wanted.

These are all the different media technologies I used in the building of my website. I tried to vary quite heavily the variety of technologies in order to make my finished product informative, entertaining and interactive for the fan. I feel that I have achieved this effect quite well.