- Memes
- Band Members
- Videos
- Interviews/News
I will include memes because they are a prime example of New Media and variability. Variability is the principle Manovich explains as taking a simple image or text and adding your own variation to it. Fleetwood Mac fans have done this well with song lyrics, most of the time by taking the lyric and changing it to fit the picture they are using in their meme. Memes are also a good example of the principle viralness. If you create a meme that people can relate to, they can then reblog, repost, and share this meme making it gain popularity. I don't think that any Fleetwood Mac memes have gone viral, but it is still an important principle to discuss.
Band Members:
On this page I would like to give a biography of each band member including pictures and videos if necessary. Each band member has a different background and when they put those differences together they were able to make great music. In order to apply a Manovich principle to this page I will include photos of the band members. Photos are a good representation of the art in the digital age. I am going to strive to find pictures of the band members that are either edited or fan made in order to show how you can use new media to make a photo.
Videos:
This is probably the most important page for my site, Fleetwood Mac is a band so it is necessary to show their music. Videos are a great way to display music, whether it be an actual music video or a fan made video. I intended to include both on this page. Videos are a representation of the principle the medium as the message. When Fleetwood Mac writes a song they have a message they want people to hear. In order to spread that message they have to produce a medium, a song. Music videos can then be used to further portray the message they were trying to send through their song.
Interviews/News:
On this page I would like to include videos of interviews, news reports, blog updates about Fleetwood Mac. They are currently on tour so there is a lot of buzz about them on the web. I think this page would be a good spot to talk about the principle transcoding. Transcoding is basically taking something like an interview or a news article and putting it on the web, making it available to more people via the internet.
Band members is a very cool idea that applies particularly to topics like yours, it will definitely make your site unique in many ways. Couldn't you also use music as a form of digital representation? You could use an tag in order to create buttons which would play the music.
ReplyDeleteAn < audio > tag that is, it doesn't show up in my first post because it is code I guess.
DeleteI agree that video is very important especially since you are doing Fleetwood Mac for your subject. It's difficult to know what they do and how they do it without having some knowledge about what their concerts are like. I agree that video is an example of media as the message. I like the different sections you are going to have on your website. I think it will work great for your topic.
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