Comparing my website to my research findings

1. Question 1: Website
In what ways does your media product
use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
To evaluate the extent to which I used or challenged codes and conventions of
pop websites, I will compare my research findings and my website

2. Website contents:
3/3 had a news feature
3/3 exhibited Videos and music
3/3 marketed tours
3/3 had a bio feature = CONNECTED TO AUDIENCE
3/3 had stores
I included features marketing the artists videos, and music, as well as tour
information as an effective way to exhibit the work of the artist to the audience. I
also included a Bio feature so as to allow the audience to feel as if they know the
artist well and can relate to her as a person as well as an artist.
I challenged the convention of artist merchandise features as well as news as the
artist is new to the industry, I feel as though she is not yet established enough to
have merchandise other than her music as well as not yet having a big enough
fan base to gain a news following.

3. Website contents:
3/3 were linked to Instagram accounts
3/3 were linked to Facebook accounts
3/3 were linked to twitter accounts
2/3 were linked to Youtube accounts
I fulfilled the convention of linking the artists social media accounts to the
website so as to present her as connected with her fans. Using the
accounts we made on YouTube, twitter, Facebook and Instagram (below)

4. Website design:
2/3 used separate pages
1/3 used continuous scroll
I decided to incorporate both a continuous scroll, so as to allow ease of
navigation, which will allowed the audience to stay engaged with the site and
find what they wanted easily, we however did not end up using separate page
links as we were unable to choose both features on Wix, as far as my partner
could find.

5. Website design:
2/3 used multiple pictures as a background
1/3 used one photo for all page backgrounds
I decided to use a single image as the
background image so as to fit with the
continuous scroll, also so as to label the
website as that of the artist and reinforce the
image of the artist in the audience's mind,
this was also seen in Jessie J’s website, (which
also incorporated continuous scroll)

6. Website design:
each used different numbers of fonts (Jessie J: 3, Rihanna: 2, Ella Eyre: 1)
each sticks to a consistent colour scheme throughout
Finally I used three different fonts, one for titles, one
for subtitle and another for the larger bodies of text,
this allowed the audience to differentiate the titles
from one another and also be more attracted to the
titles than that of the bodies of text. We also stuck to
white and pink as a colour scheme so as not to
differentiate from the continuous scroll and single
background image.