DIGITAL NEWS: 'The Bunker' Website & Trailer

As part of the brief we had to create a website to advertise our channel. Ours is called THE BUNKER, as this is the name of our channel. I created the website on Wix.com with input from Katie and Alex about the content involved and how we wanted the website to look. We speculated for ages about if we wanted the whole video on it or just the trailer, which is another component for the project. My idea was to have the trailer shown on the website and then a link to the youtube channel of the whole video but in the end we put the trailer and full video on the website.

The Bunker website: https://melmoore96.wixsite.com/thebunkermyths

Edit view:

We were able to preview it as we were going to see what it was going to look like once it was published. I was very happy with how it was looking and we just needed the final video uploaded on it and the website is finished.

When we were editing the video, I had a thought about the colour of the website. The video is very loud and boisterous with thick, black lines in the titles, which is what we wanted - quirky, big and bold. However, the website had the peach colour over 'Latest Video' and to me it looked very girly. Therefore, I changed the main colour to red and then Alex suggested the dark red. These colours go better with the theme of our video and makes much more sense to me.

I wanted to make sure the website had just our photos and information on it. So we used the background from the studio shots as the background photo on the website to link it to the myths and misconception theme. Katie and myself decided to put a photo of us on the Suggestions page because if people did write into us then they could see who they would be talking to. It also makes the website look more personal and unique to us as our news channel.

Final website:

Trailer:
Alex edited the trailer together as he had a strong idea of what he wanted it to be like; and he did not disappoint. We were very impressed with the trailer - it was upbeat and very punchy. It made me want to watch the full news video which is good because hopefully our audience will feel the same way and will enjoy our news piece.