Statement of Intent and Cover Sheet

 

Final NEA

Final Website: https://jamesedphil.wixsite.com/2kn4

• 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.

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.

Merch Designs

 

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.

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.

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.