The 'Male Gaze' theory- applied to textual analysis

A look at the music video that I talked about in this post:

The development of our band logo:

Today our group completed our band logo which I started by drawing a falcon in Paint (again we got some inspiration from this off of Google images and used a template to get the overall shape of the falcon). 

The reason that we chose to include a falcon as the logos main focus is because as you know, it is a key part of the band name that we chose: 'Firelight Falcons'.

When it came to the colouring that we put into the bird, I first added the natural colours of the bird, but then suggested that we should add oranges, yellows and reds within it, as it fits into the theme of fire (reflecting our bands name and the colour scheme that we have been going with so far.

Here is the complete drawing that I did:

We decided to make it like this as when I first tested out the look of it yesterday, we all said that we liked the look of it (as it looked like a drawn/sketched kind of image).

I then sent this to the rest of my group, and Elsie put her idea onto it, by making it look more like a logo with a red background. She then made this into a circle shape with a yellow outline. 

Here are Elsie's developments:

Finally, we then had to think of the typography that we wanted to put onto our band's logo. To help us get some ideas, Tammy went online and looked for some different fonts, and then sent us ideas of what we could use. Here were some of our options/ones that we were considering:

Choice 1

Choice 2

Choice 3

Choice 4

We all decided that we liked font choice 3 the best (as it fit with our 'drawing style' that we put into the logo, this font fit with this as it looked like writing). Therefore, as we were doing this in paint, Elsie tried to find a font most like what we wanted, and chose Kristen ITC in font size 36. However, then we had to decide on its placement.

Here are all the places we considered putting 'Firelight Falcons' onto our image:
Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:


We came to an agreement that we like the look of the placement when the band name was inside the main red circle at the bottom.
 Finally, here is our final logo:

Developing our merchandise 1

Hi everyone, so as you know, we changed our band name from our previous one 'Firelight Foxes', and our band name is now 'Firelight Falcons'. So, as we have changed our name, we decided that we needed to get going with some new merchandise ideas for our website. Today, we came up with 2 rough draft t-shirt designs that we will later develop and make more professional if we stick with that idea. Here are the 2 t-shirts (They both will be made available in black and white).

Click on the images to make them larger:

 

Today, i also did a quick sketch from some inspiration off of Google Images. We also decided that this might come in handy later on with more merch ideas etc.

Here is a brief look at the sketch I did:

Thanks for reading...

Ancillaries

Today in class, we were talking about what we think we need to show to demonstrate how we develop our ideas for our whole music video/website/band package. 

Here is what we came up with and why:

A change in our band name

Hi everyone, basically today we realised that someone out of our class has already used a fox as their band logo as well was within their band name. 

Therefore, as we want to be more original, Tammy, Elsie, and myself have decided to come up with a new name. However, we are still going to keep 'Firelight' within our name. For our new band name, we have decided to use the name 'Firelight Falcons', instead of 'Firelight Foxes' to make sure that we are different to the other group using a fox as their logo/name.

Therefore, we will also start to develop a logo, some merchandise, and other things for our new band name.

We have already found some inspiration for our logo, as well as some of our merchandise (we found these on Google images):

Here is a bit of inspiration for what sort of thing we might like to use for our band logo. We like how it is simple, yet effective, and also relates to our bands name.

Here are a couple images that we found which we think would look good on a bracelet, which can be something that we sell on our website. The shape of the falcon on these images will also be a good fit horizontally on a bracelet.

We will now be working on maybe sketching some things up from what has inspired us, and we'll also keep updating and developing our ideas.

Being the examiner

Finding a band name and thinking about merchandise

Hi, so today, Elsie, Tammy, and I have been thinking about a band name (as we have decided not to use McFly to make it more of our own) and we decided to settle on the name 'Lightfire Foxes'. We chose this as we believe that it represents the band's genre well and also believe that we could use an intertextual reference to a fox maybe in our final music video (making it more personal to the band that we are creating, as well as their style). As at points in our music video, settings will be more gloomy and dark, therefore, we decided that it would be a good idea to maybe include a fox here).

As I said, we have also been trying to gather some ideas for some merchandise that our band would sell (That we can add onto our website). We also tried to make these so as they would fit with our band's name and the overall concept. 

These are the colours which we have decided to sell the wristbands in:

We decided no to make the colour range to vast as then some colours may not be liked by some audience members. However, we decided we really wanted/needed to add the oranges and the red as it fits in with the idea of the fox.

Here's a look at 3 of the ideas we have so far for our wristbands. As these are rough drafts, they shall later be made to look more professional and more variations should be released (along with other pieces of merchandise).

Thanks for reading, we hope that you enjoyed some of our ideas so far...

Production company/Record Company logo

Hi everyone, so my group and I thought that it would be a good idea to make a production company/record label logo to help make up our overall package. 

We decided to go with the name 'LET Studios', firstly because it's the letters of our first names (Laura, Elsie, Tammy), and because we generally liked how the word 'Let' sounded in the title (it makes us sound productive). 

So here is what we came up with. To make this logo we used https://www.graphicsprings.com/start-your-logo

Hope you enjoy...

Band/Artist website analysis

Hi everyone, as we are later going to make a website for our own band, I have been looking at various artists and bands websites to see what they are like and how they make it good for the audience. This should help us later on when we are in the process of making our own.

I decided to look at Ed Sheeran's website, as he is an artist who is similar to our band (McFly). Because of this, it should help us with what style we want to go for later on in the process.

Making a band website- Why is it needed? What is needed on one?

Hi everyone, as later on me and my group will be making a band website as part of our final production, we will be looking at some ourselves and hopefully be getting some ideas. This post is basically about why it is important for a band or artist to have a website, and what is needed to make a good website. (This will help us when we come to making one ourselves).

Band website tips from LauraKN