FINISHED WEBSITE AND EVALUATION

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

I think our finished website is very affective as a piece of media, it conforms and develops to the typical conventions that would be seen on the web site of a girl band. With use of colour for example we used a black ground and pink and blue writing, also the big central picture being the focus of the website, it is a professional picture taken on a proper camera and the clothes we styled in the picture all being black also conforms to the genre of a girl band website.

The name of the band being at the top on strong yet feminine written across the top is very typical of such a site which we aimed for. Also it conforms to the general setting of a website for all music artists and famous people as it has links to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace across the top. Also the links on the top of the page which would take to other pages such as 'About us' , 'Tour dates' and 'Release Dates' are all very stereotypical of a website such as this as the aim is to promote the girl band and for people to read positive things about them. Also I believe

it serves its purpose as far as a promotion tool for the single release of Beautiful Dirty Rich as there is a paragraph about it on there and links to the video.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

The website adds background story and information about the members of the band and makes everything seem more realistic. Also in the picture we wore clothes that are also in the video so it ties in nicely and there is mention of the video release and single on there so it is an effective combination.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Again similarly to the previous ancillary task mention the magazine, we did not feel we needed to get formal audience feedback as we know that the website serves it purpose, however we did again through form of conversation. Comments included that they liked how all three tasks used similar colours throughout, black pink and blue and the only thing they would change about the website would be more pictures and maybe more adverts for realism on the website. Therefore we learned that more things needed to go on the website, however we didn't want to fill up the page to much and make it look over crowed so we kept it on a minimal look and I personally felt this looked and worked best for us.

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

To create this I used iWeb on the Appel Macs, after researching and trying to create one on online systems such as piczo and freewebs, we found that iWeb worked best and gave more tools that helped it look professional.

For research we used the internet and Safari again on the Appel mac to research in to what other girl band websites looked like so we could find the conventions and decide wether to follow or go agaisnt these.