Fanzine proposal for Muse.

1. Fanzine proposal
By Joe Holman

2. Intro
What is my chosen subject?
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Muse are a 3 man progressive rock band from Teignmouth, Devon.
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They have produced 6 studio albums which vary quite a lot
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They have won a total of 37 awards such as Brit, Grammy and NME awards.
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(Most notably for their live performaces)
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They have a massive and dedicated fanbase
What will my website offer & what are its goals?
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Biography
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Trivia
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News
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Fan pictures
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Live / music videos
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Album playlist
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Tour dates
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Useful links
What I already know
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Spry
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Marquee
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Gif
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Embed MP3
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Embed Youtube video
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Alt text
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Rollover image

3. What will I learn and how?
What will I learn?
• Flash slide show
• Twitter feed
• Playlist(s)
How will I learn?
• Websites with step by step guides
• Youtube tutorials
• Ask Karen or Andy Mac

4. Target Audience
• Any age, preferably younger generation
• Younger generation will regularly attend gigs, maybe play an
instrument themselves and collect albums
• Music fanatics, particularly those into a rock or progressive
rock genre
• They will want to know the bands background, music they
have produced, where they have toured
• Website will be visually appealing
• Easy to navigate
• Interactive (videos, mp3 files, rollover imagery)
• Yet to see a website with dedicated trivia

5. Mood board

6. Assets
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Image gallery
Flash slide show
Gifs
Videos
MP3 files
Twitter feed
Rollover images
Alt text
Marquee
Spry

7. Site map

8. Navigation methods
Navigation bar with on click drop
down menus
Hyperlinks
Vertical navigation bar
Search navigation
Tabbed navigation
Footer navigation

9. Template
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Purple, Blue, White Black
Image background
Dimensions 1024 x 768 px

10. Home page

11. Album page(x6): Absolution

12. Feedback page

13. Tour dates page

14. Trivia page

15. Links page

16. Meta data
Keywords to include are:
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Muse
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Matt Bellamy
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Dom Howard
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Chris Wolstenholme
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Progressive rock
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NME
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Q Magazine
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Manson guitars
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Reading festival
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Glastonbury festival
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Wembley Stadium
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New album
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Influences
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Band
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Large fanbase
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Multi-award winning
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Best live act
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Tour
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Arena
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Hullabaloo
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B-sides
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Rocket Baby Dolls
Gothic plague
Fixed penalty
Teignmouth
Devon
Showbiz
Origin of Symmetry
Absolution
Blackholes and revelations
The resistance
2nd Law
Knights of Cydonnia
Starlight
Plug in Baby
Stockholm Syndrome
Map of the Problematique
Uprising
Supermassive black hole
Follow me
Madness
Panic station
The small print
Thoughts of a Dying Athiest
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Fury
Hyper music
Dead star
Mark Beaumont
Cave
Overdue
Uno
Sober
Fillip
Morgan Nichols
Kate Hudson
Bingham Hawn Bellamy
New Born
HAARP
Undisclosed desires
Survival
Animals
Unnatural selection
Exogenesis symphony