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

The media product I have created is basically a normal HTML website that works normally and is linked to everything also. The website I have created isn’t really anything special but it works perfectly and is easy to use.

The layout, which I have created, is a normal layout with is easy to create but it also looks good and professional. I have taken the conventions from the website ‘Talk To Frank’. I have basically followed the layout, so where the links on the page are, and then the layout of the page itself. One of the main things I have followed is a donate page. I also looked at other websites and they to have a donate page. Having this will raise and help the charity bring money in and help the cause it’s helping out.

The background, which we have used, was our idea. We went around the school and we looked at things which looked warn and where messy. We were going for the messy theme seeing as other drug information websites had gone for this. Once we had got the images which we needed we went back onto the computers, copied the images onto them and then loaded them onto the website and made them fill out the backing of the pages. We played around so that the colours of the images would fit the information on the page, so seeing as marijuana is known as ‘green’, we used an image with green in it.

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Website brief

The website which I am aiming to produce will be focused on a main charity website. The charity website which I am looking at is ‘www.talktofrank.com’ this websites aims its information on people who have drug additions and therefore the information which it carries out is to help and explain what the drugs do. This website is a worldwide website aimed at anyone with a drug addiction, therefore it is a worldwide charity website.

I like the idea of this website because it doesn’t aim at one problem, it is aimed at a number of people with many different problems. Also it isn’t only posted online, this website has television adverts to advertise the website and what it does to help people.

The audience I think that ‘talktofrank.com’ is aiming at are people from their teenage years around to the age of up to 30-40 years old, but then again the majority of the public can get something out of this website if needs be.

For my website I will aim to do this aswell. This is because it will have information carried out across the website and also it will have images, videos to help explain and give people the information which they are looking for.

The website will have information and also a donate page so people could give money to the charity and then expand the information they have and use it for a good cause.

Also there will be information on how to get in touch with the charity and therefore be able to ask any questions which they have and any enquires which they have also.

Industry research

What is web hosting?

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows you to create your own website accessible via the World Wide Web.

Web host are companies that create space for people to make their own websites for others to view. It is giving people the space to provide connectivity in a data centre.

What is a domain name?

A domain name is an identification label which is at the end of a website name. This could be a .com, .net, .org and more.

Domain name are used in various contexts and addressing purposes, registering you to the website you want to look at.

How do u register a domain name?

To register a domain name you would have to go onto a website which lets you create your own website, then you would need to check the availability of the website name and then if it is available you would have to pay.

For me I checked is www.chattocharlie.com was available which it was, and then I found out that it would cost £19.98 for it to run for 2 years.

Blogspot review.

Starting the year with the subject of media, I came into the subject with not knowing a lot about the subject. Within these first couple of weeks we have reviewed a fair few clips from Hollyoaks and also the new James Bond film, Casino Royal.

My perceptions at the start of the year where to do as well as I could and understand what we would be doing as soon as possible. From looking at these clips from Hollyoaks and the James Bond film, we have looked at the camera angles which we have used and also the lighting which they would have used to create the scene.

My perceptions from the start of the year and from now haven’t changed as I still want to learn about the angles and still would like to carry on learning as quickly as possible.

What has gone well for me is that I have learnt about the camera angles, the lighting and how they create the scene well and understood about the ways in which they do this. The small pieces of written work which we have had to do I believe have gone well as I have mostly understood the work as hopefully I have done the work to a good standard.

From watching the James Bond DVD I have learnt about the camera angles and also the lighting which they use to create the movie. At the beginning of the year I wouldn’t have known about this type of editing for movies and now looking at it more in depth I do understand about the lighting and the angles of the camera which they use.

Also we have looked at a short video clip, which is called ‘gone fishing’. This short clip has won various amounts of awards around the world, and watching it gave me more of an insite to the media world, using many different camera angles, lighting and also a very interesting story line aimed at the audience in mind.