After this weeks Tutorial, and we all went away and did our own research, I first looked through Google, the locations of various 'Live Gigs in and around the Brisbane CBD'
The image below shows locations of places around the Brisbane CBD that offer live music and various gigs including Comedy and other Theatrical events;
The Orange Pins show the locations of Bars that requarly offer music performances; E.g. The HiFi & Tivoli Hotel
The Orange Circles show other locations of Bars that are so well publicized mainstream; along with reviews regarding the locations; E.g. Tempo Resaurant & Pink Piano.
This gave me a rough idea or where many live gigs are held in Brisbane and their locations associated to each other. As well as having this generalization I looked at a number of websites that offered information regarding up and coming music gigs and other forms of entertainment. Below are the links to 3 websites I looked into in particular;
Below is a print-screen taken from Rave Magazines homepage; on the homepage various amounts of news are shown to the viewer, some information shown includes;
Featured interviews
Gig Reviews
Album Reviews
Tour Announcements
Most Popular Articles
This next screenshot shows how a user (from the shown hyperlinks on the top bar) discovers up and coming gigs via searching;
Selecting a date
Keywords (band name, artist name)
Locations
Categories (genres etc)
The image below shows a screenshot of the 'Event Finder' websites homepage;
This next image below shows a screenshot of the 'Live Guide' websites homepage;
From visiting these above websites I drew general conclusions as to what they offered, how easy it was to navigate around the site and find the information I was after and whether there were alternative entertainment options offered a long with ticket and Gig offers.
My favourite website in terms of navigating the website and the information in which was offered to the visitor was Live Guide. From the homepage the visitor is able to easily to choose from;
Tours/Music/Arts&Theatre/Festivals/Community&Lifestyle/Bars/Pubs/Resaurants/Cafes
These options covered a large variety of interests for an individual and what they may be after. The information was easy to obtain and navigate around. The visitor could select a gig, find the time, date and location of said selected gig as well as the ticket price - and then purchase a ticket all within a few clicks and scrolls of the mouse and a few taps on the keyboard.
In combination with this, the website also runs their own social media pages on Facebook and Twitter. This offers users and followers the ability to share and discuss and even get excited about up coming events and festivals.
From all this generalized research, I have been able to conclude that one of the only things this site is missing is a corresponding iPhone App to provide this information for 'on-the-go' users.
Having all this is mind, I feel if we take this option further forward and continue to research and potentially design for this context, then we should take note of what existing websites offer already and try to work off what they are missing. However, in this case, the only thing they are missing is the one thing we want to avoid designing, an iPhone App.
Based on other points discussed above and my own personal feeling surrounding this topic, I feel it would be in our best interest as a group to move away from providing an product to express news regarding gigs and events for this project. Mainly due to the fact multiple Websites, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and countless Online Blogs and Forums already exist and are already successful in doing so, which in turn, would be a hard act to follow, and certainly a harder act to be original in doing so.
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