Website Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The media cover that i created for one of my ancillery tasks develops and we have tried to conform to the conventions of real media products. This is because we created a girl band in which we wanted to follow the conventions that other girlbands follow, this was so that our band would be professional and look as if it was an already famous band.

We tried to stick to similar fonts that other girl bands used, this was because then it would look professional. Also we researched first into other bands and artists magazine covers. We used a big central picture in the middle of the website, this was so that it would follow the conventions of other girl bands websites.This image that we used was taken on a professional camera, this was so that it was more like a professional girl bands website.

We have put our name in bold writing across the top, this is so that it is one of the main focuses of the website. I have put it in pink femanine writing this is so that it looks more like a professional girl bands website.

I have stuck to the typical conventions that other girl bands have, this is by putting links to social networking sites such as Myspace, Twitter and Facebook along the top. Also there are other links along the top such as About us, About The Band and Tour Dates. This is so that the public will be able to get to know the band and know more about us and feel as though we are a real band and not just made up.

Also i believe that the website serves the purpose that it was made for, this was to promote the single release and promote the video. The paragraph that we have written at the bottom on the home page does this, and the link to the video for beautiful dirty rich also promotes the music video.

How effective is the combination of the main product with the ancillery tasks?

Although we used a different genre for the magazine cover as we have for the music video i think that this works well to compliment the music video. I feel as thought the magazine cover and the finished website make the band seem more realistic and as if the member are real famous people as apposed to just a fake band. I believe that it adds the effect of realism to the band. I believe that the website makes it so that the audience get to know more about the band

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

For this ancillery task we did not gather specific audience feedback in the form of writing, this is because we felt as if a conversation style would be more appropriate. Throughout the feedback that we gathered we found that the audience thought that the website served its purpose and made us seem like a real band. They said that the website looked very girly and we achieved what we wanted to and stuck to the conventions that we said we were going to in the research and planning. The only negative comments that we got was that they said it would have been better if we had included more images, however we did not do this on purpose as we did not want to overload the web page and thought that it looked better and more realistic as plain and simple.

How did you use meida technologies in the constructions, research and evaluation stages?

For the actual creation of the website i used iWeb this was because we tried to use sites such as Piczo, however we found that this did not work well for us. Therefore we found that there were more tools on iWeb and we would be able to create the website to the best of our potential and make it look exactly as we hoped through this software. In the research stages we decided that we would use safari on the apple mac.