Piracy Myths

Okay so here is a list of the myths I intend to bust:

• Pirates only want free stuff
• Downloading music damages the artist
• No artists support piracy
• Piracy is stealing
• Piracy will kill the creative arts
• Digital piracy costs the industry billions
• Piracy is illegal, and therefore wrong
• Pirates are all young people who don't understand how society really works
• Using pay services is much easier anyway
• It isn't expensive to just pay for stuff
• You don't support the band by pirating their music

Most of these statements are claims made by anti-piracy groups, or are just common misconceptions. All that stuff about you wouldn't steal a handbag, and it's not even stealing...

Schedule

Here is a Gantt Chart showing my schedule for the Simulated Client project.

Simulated Client Project

The Brief:

Produce a short multimedia piece that informs about or illustrates Digital Piracy.

Proposal:

To answer this brief I propose to create a pro-piracy website informing about myths within anti-piracy campaigns. It will mostly focus around digital piracy within the music industry, but also touching upon the film industry.Through research of digital piracy I have discovered that there are many points argued by anti-piracy groups that can be disputed and sometimes proven wrong. Some examples are –

• Digital piracy costs the industry billions every year
• Piracy is stealing
• Pirates are all young people who don’t understand how society really works
• No artists support piracy
• You don’t support bands by pirating their music

I intend the website to be very simple but also focused on aesthetic design, with a clean, modern look conforming to current design trends. It will be created using HTML and CSS, with JavaScript being used for certain elements.

I have taken inspiration from the website' WTF Should I Make For Dinner?' with regards to how my piracy website will work.

On this website a link to a different recipe is displayed each time the page is refreshed or the user clicks the link to display a new one. I would like my piracy website to work in the same way, with a different myth displayed on each page. Using large type to state the myth, I will then give the user the option to read more information using a link. When clicked, I plan on having more text appear explaining why it is untrue. There are examples below demonstrating this.

Piracy

THIS IS A NEW YEAR

From this point everything is fresh.

I would like to make a new fancy blog on my own website, but then I know I'd get caught up in designing it when I'm actually supposed to be doing work.

So I won't.

I'll just write a big message like this saying that from this point the work will be GOOD.

Title Ideas

Final Wireframe

After experimenting in Photoshop with some of the layout used in the previous wireframes, I found none of them were really very effective. I've created a new one like this which is working much better as a design.