Website development 1

Today I have started on developing my website.  Throughout I have made good and bad decisions and changed ideas etc.  I've tried my best to stick to my original plan of what I wanted my website design to be like from when we did our research and planning.  I used websites such as 'picmonkey.com' the photo editing site and 'urbanfonts.com' to search some different fonts to use.  

 my original logo is the image of the close up of an eye.  During the filming process I took various images of the making character to make sure I had a variety of different images for my digi pack and website.  One of those images was a close up of the main characters eye. I used the website 'picmonkey' to edit the eye image. I experimented with the different tools such as 'crop' and 'effects'.  the effects I used were 'cross process' this gave you the option of the colours green, blue or red.  I chose the blue colour as it fit with my colour scheme I chose from when i was doing my planning and research.  The shadow on the eye (right) works as it fit with my idea of what I wanted my character to be shown as when i designed my Frankenstein even though it doesn't make the eye stand out as much.  To try and make the eye stand out more I used the effect 'focal zoom'.  This lets me focus on the eyeball and have a zoom like effect around the eye zooming onto the eye.  

I then used the website 'urbanfonts' to find a font which matches our genre.  I searched the words 'futuristic' and 'electronic' in the search bar to find different fonts to choose from.  I chose the font 'crash scene' as it is in a lightning style font. From our previous research we used noticed that scientific images sometimes represent the genere, therefore the lightning effect works well.

I then noticed that the font I had chosen was very similar to the font The Prodigy used for one of their fonts.  This is good as it shows that I am having the right ideas to suit my genre.  But then  it could also be a bad thing having the same font as The Prodigy.  But I don't think that this is the worst of my problems as it isn't completely the same as my chosen font.

I had a problem with the colour of the font I chose for my website.  As I am using black background on my website I would have to change the colour of the font to a visible colour when it is on the webpage.  To do this is had to use the tool available on the website which allows you to change the colour of the background of the text and the font. So I changed the background colour from white to black and the font colour from black to white 

I began to experiment with the different colours and fonts I could use for a theme throughout my website design.  I have currently stuck to the basic black and white theme but comparing it to my website design and other parts of research and planning I did such as the mood board I think that I will go on to change it to make sure it fits with the genre Electronica. 

With my website design I tried my best to stick to my plan of the webpage design I did a few weeks back in for research and planning.  As I wanted an eye image for the main attraction on the enter page, I used one of the images I took when I was taking pictures for my digi pack.  I used 'picmonkey' to edit it as much as I could to make it fit well with the design and to still fit with the genre of the artist.  I'm not 100% happy with the image so I am going to be editing it again or I will find an image which isn't copyrighted to replace it.