Media Coursework Essay

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I chose brief 3 and wanted to make a website and a poster of my artist. I chose brief 3 because i am quite passionate about music since a very small age. I also did the music as my GCSE option in Year 9 which gave me a lot of ideas about the music industry and how things function there. I took these skills and knowledge that I have learnt as an advantage. Also, being fans of various artists and visiting concerts inspired me to use my all-time dream to create my own singer and make it realistic.
I set out to make a website which consisted of 3-4 different pages for the fans to view. I had to do a lot of research on various artists such as Taylor Swifts and others who were of the same genre. This is because my artist was also going to be part of the same genre. I then researched and found out that my audiences were mainly young teenage who were unable to get jobs or have good jobs to pay for the magazines or biography of the artist and therefore they turned to website instead. Taking this factor into consideration, I decided to create a website. Also, many young teenage girls who are of the age 13+ prefer the website as it’s quite interactive with social networking sites being available for them to interact on with the artist. I set out to make a website that looked more of a blog page written by the artist. This was done so it looked realistic and helped the audience engage with the artist. Nevertheless, I also wanted a page with all the tour dates so the fans were able to attend and know where she would be performing.
I also created a tour poster, followed by an advert of my artist’s album and an interview in print. I analysed tour posters of various different artists who do country music. This was done so that it would give me a ...

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...es and making posters as I was able to carry out this task without the help of the teacher purely because of the past experience I have been open to and my passion. This therefore meant that I was able to work at a continuous pace. However, I don’t think I was quite successful at making my website turn out to be the way I wanted due to technology not working properly and my lack of ability to use the software adequately. My products haven’t met my expectation completely because something’s didn’t work out well for example the website due to lack of knowledge in certain area and lack of resources. However, If I was going to recreate my products again, I think I would organise my time more wisely and do a lot more research than I did in the first round. I would also try and use other varieties of resources like using Photoshop instead of PowerPoint to edit pictures.

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