Thursday, December 11, 2025

Final NEA

  • My selected 2 pages to be marked are the HOME page and the ABOUT page
  • When you hover over the white cutouts of the members they reveal a full image, and when this image is clicked it will redirect you to the respective about section of whatever member is clicked
  • Pressing the play button on the Spotify Web layer at the bottom of the HOME page will play the 'I Want It That Way'
  • Warner Music Group is mentioned on the footer on the website

Intertextuality 

  • White cutouts of members on the HOME page are a reference to the 5 seconds of summer website
  • 2kN4: The use of a capital N is a reference to NSYNC, 4 is a reference to bands like The Jackson 5 having the amount of people in the band in the name

 Final Video: https://youtu.be/ZeZmZGAie44

Goodwin Points

  • Heart transition on lyric "heartache" at 2:18
  • Train showed at 1:56- "No matter the distance"
  • 0:36- "Can't reach to your heart", reaches towards camera and does heart hand gesture
  • "your fire" at 1:10, shows burning transition
  • 0:09 ripple transition matches wah wah of the song

Intertextuality 

  • 0:54- bench shot matches 500 days of summer
  • 0:29- abbey road album cover 

  • 2:05- Intro to Big Enough by Kirin J. Kallinan 
  • 1:50, 1:54- Hard Days Night Film trailer









Editing the final music video

 Here are screenshots of the process of editing the video in DaVinci Resolve.





Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Old TV to showcase the music video

 

I wanted to integrate the music video into the website by having an image of a TV with the video on the screen. To do this I 3D modelled a TV in Blender using images of old TVs as reference. I created textures that looked like the type of bumpy plastic used for the cases of old TVs and used a few different lights to make the lighting interesting. I rendered the image using the cycles engine. I then covered the screen with black in Photopea. On the website I overlayed the video where the screen of the TV is.





General Polishing

 

Here I have made a shape that looks like the silhouette of a plane to add an animated element to the tour section of the home page.

Here I have added some details like the stars to fill in empty space.




Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Christmas Album cover

 

I wanted to include a 3rd release for the band so their discography wouldn't be so bare so I thought I'd make a cover for a christmas album. I took photos I hadn't used of the members already and recoloured their clothing to be red and green (christmas colours); I then cut each member out.

Then in Blender, I 3d modelled a sleigh and some presents. I placed the photos of the band in the sleigh to look like they're sitting in it. I also added motion blur to the presents so they looked like they're flying out of the sleigh.

After I had rendered the sleigh I took it into Photopea and added some snow in the background, lowering the opacity and decreasing the size to add depth, as well as in the foreground. I then added the text using fonts I felt were festive and used festive colours.




Wednesday, November 19, 2025

About Page Formatting

 On the about page of my website I've added a section underneath the character profiles of the members to add some backstory and history for the band.

I started off with adding polaroid photographs of different members of the band by photoshopping photos I had into the frame of a polaroid photo.



Tuesday, November 18, 2025

About Page Photographs

 For the about page I wanted to include some photos of the band members throughout their history to accompany the backstory I have written. To make the photos I have used appear older I have placed them in a frame of a polaroid photograph that i took a picture of and cut out the middle section in Photopea. I then added adjustment layers to the photos I am placing underneath so they look like they belong as a polaroid. The photo filter layers specifically help add a tint of a colour, in this case I used an orange and a purple, to make the photo appear older.

For these photos I had to use a levels adjustment layer to lower the white values as they were too bright compared to the polaroid border.