How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts - Evaluation Question 2

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

Website - FINAL

http://daniellejoshua.wix.com/media

This is the link to my website. 
The first thing I did whilst making my website was focus on images. I wanted to create links between the music video, website and digipak. So I chose to use screen shots from the music video as the header and background for my website homepage. 

I chose this image as the header as a way for the audience to identify the music video with this website. I feel as if the dolls have become a logo for the band and is now a way for their fans to recognise if a product belongs to the band or not. I also think that the dolls reflect the dark and mysterious image I have chosen to portray the band.

I chose to use this picture as the background for my website as it is showing the main character and his love obsession. This is also a way of connecting the narrative of the music video and the website.

The next thing I did when making the music video was think about convergence and promotion of the band. I decided to connect the website with the bands twitter, facebook, youtube and soundcloud pages, this would further promote the band's music and keep them interacting with their fans. As well as this it would help the band to be found by people who weren't fans of them previously, but had just happened to stumble across the band whilst browsing these social network sites. I feel that this is perhaps the most important element of the website as new media is definitely very important in helping to promote a band as well as helping with the exchange of their products.

I advertised the "new single" Two Devils on the side of the homepage and ticked the box [show on every page] and linked it to itunes where you could purchase the single. I also posted an embedded link onto the website with the music video. This creates a link with my music video and my ancillary tasks.

Another thing I decided to do whilst making my website was to post dates of where and when the band was performing and again ticked the box [show on every page] so that fans are up to date with the band. I think this is very important when thinking about target audience. The target audience of the band are late teens, who do not want to be spending hours on one website. So information needs to be quick and easy to follow and digest. By creating links between social networks and giving them all the information they need as soon as they get onto the website allows them to get the information they want and also know that if they need to check new dates of the band touring they can do so through the website or any of the other social medias.

I created a second page for the website "News and Blog" which had all the news from the band themselves. This is very important as the fans will feel a sense of relationship between them and the band and are therefore more likely to keep coming back to the website to check up on recent news. 

Two Devils - FINAL