Creating a webpage for 'B Money'

This is the webpage that I created for our artist, B Money. I decided to use MySpace like any artist nowadays as my source; I chose MySpace as it is very user friendly and extremely easy to access as a fan. Also it is great for artists to promote themselves and their music. I created the page and designed into a Hip-Hop style to keep with the theme of B Money.

Websites such as myspace gives artists such as ours the chance to interact and create a fan base, as well as promoting there music, there image and there genera activites, keeping a personal commnicaton with there fans.

Making our Artist Look Like a Star

This is where research into my star model really paid off. To keep our artist, B Money,looking like a star and have a somewhat fame feel towards him, we have give him a specific 'look', just as most artists have in order to differentiate themselves to other artists and in turn start their own trends.. Kid Cudi in particular has his own image and he sticks to it where ever he goes, his style is something we associate with him. An extreme case of this would be Lady Gaga who is very much extreme when it comes to her choice in clothing and her style. We have given our artist a unique style with the clothes he wears, as the song Magic has an indie artist and a Hip-Hop rapper, which gives us freedom on what look we want for him. In this case we wish to keep him looking youthful yet a sense of status in the music industry so he doesn’t have a ‘newcomer’ look but a look that says to the audience he knows what he’s doing and his is no weak character.

My B Money Album Cover - How i created it

I designed my album cover using photoshop.
Firstly i began with a simple image of our artist (B money) as i felt it was important that i built around the main feature of the album. In this case i took a picture that had a look of rebelious behaviour yet controlled to connotate the ideas a emotions of he artist we ar creating. I think this image is extremely striking and would appeal to an audience who desire ground breaking music that deals with such issues in a post modern way,tackling ideas of rebellious behaviour in the music industry.

I then look at enhancing the photo such as adding an outer glow in order to make the image stand out. I also then added promotion of our record label, placing the brand name on the cover twice as i felt in todays music industry this is something that is usual done to promote record labels. So to add to the realism of the cover i felt it was only neccessary. Additionally I have added a parent advisory label, also conventional of controversial music.



I then went on the add text sycronising with the colour scheme, and i felt that by manually enhancing the boldness of the name it made it a dominant feature, however not taking away from the powerful picture that stands behind.



I felt that my album cover was a success and was similar to ones we see in the music industry today. Although kept very minimalistic, i feel the cover connotes a real senseof power about the artist and displays his genre of pop/ hip hop music that is looking to change the industry in the way of the artist personality to rebel.

Artist Website

I decided to create a website for the Artist that we have made. I have chosen to use MySpace as my form of web page in his case, due toits mass use across the world, its accessbility for fans, and its endless ways to interact with fans.
Doing this will require me to have photos of the artist and a theme for the artists page. We have created a'bad boy' image for our artist yet to give him a sense of fame and status i must bare in mind how i put across the artist in the way i design the website down to minor factors such as colour schemes.
For an artist to gain further recognition from fans, they will need a website or a web page. MySpace, Facebook or any social networking website will be suitable; or perhaps even a whole new site for the artist, this is the case with many worldwide artist however it is clear that these social networks prove to be moe beneficial in terms of promotion of the artist. Many artists use Myspace as you can upload photos, videos and music to share with fans.