1. Q.1 In what ways does your media
product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?

2. Our own website
Twitter feed
The navigation
bar at the top
of the page,
allows the
viewers to
view pages
easily.

3. Ed Sheeran The 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.