Research into website

When researching for this website, we decided it would be best too not only look at Lady Gaga's but also to look at other girl bands that we have taken inspiration from in the making of this video, for instance The Saturdays as we emulated their use of props, and they are the perfect example of what we were trying to portray.



This is Lady Gaga's website, as you can see she uses black and white images of herself, yet colour images of people who she features with. This is to make Gaga different, and also to give her a certain image. The background is black and the writing is white with splashes of red to give it colour. When discussing our website we decided to use black background as we are trying to emulate Lady Gaga's style. However, when we looked at the Saturdays Website, we found a massive difference in the styles:

As you can see here, The Saturdays use a lot more colour in their webpage, as they wish to attract a different audience. Lady Gaga aims more towards the older population, and uses strange images to attract a wider audience, whereas the Saturdays wish to attract younger audience, and are more friendly and warm, the average 'pop band'.
After looking into these two websites we decided on a colour scheme, black background with blue and pink writing. This is a mixture of both Lady Gag's website and the Saturdays, as we liked both ideas, however we wanted more colour than Lady Gaga, as although we are portraying her through our video, we also want to appeal to a younger audience.
We then had to decide on the content for our website. We decided we needed a picture of us at the top of the site with our band name above. This is so everybody knows straight away what the site is about. It also draws the attention to us as a band. We then decided to have links to other artists bands and sites on our page, to promote friendly workings between us and other bands, and highlight to young children that working with other people and not always being in competition with them is sometimes a good life choice. We wanted to have a paragraph about our newly released single, Beautiful Dirty Rich, and for this to be the centre piece of the home page, with links to other pages, however we will not have to make these other pages as the task is to create just a home page.
Now we have researched and decided on the website content, we can create the site.