Website- Research (Choir)

I looked at 2 choir's websites because I want to be able to study the style they used in comparison to the mainstream ones I've researched and find a middle ground that'll be able to use for the website I'm making for Scala to show their progression as artists. 


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This choir is related with a church so its a religious choir. There is only one page dedicated to the band, there is no social networking icons or advertisement of the bands recent albums. This shows that the choir wasn't created for a profit or national or international success they just want to sing in the representation of their religion.

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The style is classic with dark colours and patterns with a splash of colour. The site also lacks social networking icons which the mainstream websites do this to me is a clear indication of a non-mainstream genre's website with a lack of promotion and artists image being shown. 

This research showed me the lack of new media technology these choirs use. There is no clear style as it must depend on the meaning behind the choir. 

I've decided due to lack of more mainstream choirs to look at Scala's current website to see how up to date they're and what changes I can make with my website which will make them more mainstream. 

The first screen shown is alike to blink 182's with a black background too, but instead of it just being used to show off a logo it enable people who are speak different languages besides English to choose the site for them. The album shown on the front is the 2010 album which needs to be updated with the new 2011 or the very best CD they have recently released. 

They mainstream success through the trailer of Social Network and the trailer of Downton Abbey shows through there use of social networking icons, interactive instant messaging for fans and the use of You Tube video's. The choir are shown from the picture at the top of the screen. Personally I think the basic layout of the homepage is good and the page menu is well placed bu the news feed looks messy and there needs to be more structure within the news feed. 

The website is very comprehensive and this will help me in creating the website and collecting the information. The biography seems too long and not many fans would sit through and read the whole article. 

The style of the website is black and grey very much like the rock website I looked at and also the choir website I looked at used black as there main colour scheme. For the website i'm going to create i'm going to try and add a burst of colour in an indie style to change the look of the band.