Q.1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge

forms and conventions of real media products?

Our own website

Twitter feed

The navigation bar at the top of the page, allows the viewers to view pages easily.

Ed SheeranThe use of the links to various social networking sites reflects how this website is high in profession than ours .

They have included photos and contact links along with a ‘videos’ page, which we have also done on our own music video, which shows the similarities in construction from our own website to a professional website .

As this is the original artists website, has a twitter feed located in the centre of the page. Which we also have in our own website.

Twitter follow button for fan base.

The twitter feed is in the centre of the website homepage. This shows that it is quite significant. As it takes up a lot of space on the page, further this targets the audience directly. The Twitter feed allows Ed Sheeran to see his fans comments and possibly to reply to some.

On our website we have also included a Twitter feed, however our twitter feed on the bottom right hand side, for fans of Andrew to look at if they would like and our target audience. As Twitter is a big social networking site this aims at our target audience and allows our artist to become known to others that may not know of him.

This shows that we have included the target audience and this enhances the image of the artist. As Twitter is worldwide and is a well known social network used by celebrities and many people of different ages.

On the left hand side the use of having a news feed, allows fans and the public to always be up to date with the artists events. On the right hand side is our own website with a news feed, which we included to update fans and the public on Andrews performances and what he has been doing with his time, by us having a news feed, it has given our website a professional element and meets real website conventions.

We have included a gallery for our artist on our website, this is for fans and to keep fans update on his latest The gallery indicates real media conventions, as we are aiming to keep the fans and public up to date with the artist. In order for the artist to be known we wanted to use images to get people to be more interested.

The element of the contact page, makes the website appear professional and this allows companies who would like to know about the artist the opportunity to speak to the artists manger and team. By us including a ‘contact’ page we have met the real media conventions through our research and media technologies.

This shows the dates of the ‘tours’ page this allows fans and the public to know when the artist will be performing. Further by the use of the ‘Buy tickets’ button this allows the public to have access to buying tickets easily, also this then gives the element of a professional appearance. The real website page in comparison to our ‘Andrew Manning’ tour page shows that we have used the same elements of real media conventions.

Ben Howard official website

The official ‘Ben Howard’ website has very similar features to the home page of our artists home page. The features are ‘news’ and dates to show when the news was updated. This then shows that we have used real media conventions on our own website , making it look as professional as a real artists website.

The ‘Ben Howard’ website features a gallery page and our own ‘Andrew Manning’ website features a gallery. By including a gallery in a website this shows the artists progress and allows the public to see the artists style, in terms of clothing and latest hair styles.

The use of having a page where fans and the public can buy tickets and view the vital information of dates and venues of where the artist will be performing, makes the website professional. Through the screen shots of the real artists website ‘Ben Howard’ in comparison to our own artists website ‘Andrew Manning’ we show that we have successfully shown real media conventions and successfully enabled our audience to be involved with the artist.

Through the use of the comparisons to real music artists website, we have shown our own website, and we have shown various similarities. Through this we have shown that we successfully used real media conventions in our own music website.

Tafadzwa Msipa and Lauren Greene.