My website

This is my screenshot of my website 'pulse'. I have put 6 different tabs they are; home,news,music,what's on,gallery and contact.  I have used the same colour scheme for the tabs as I did the logo. I will now add the content to the rest of the website. 

Creating our websites

Yesterday we started the process of building our websites on KompoZer. We started by creating a table 3x6 then we joined selected cells from the top and bottom rows. The top row was for my logo- Pulse. The middle bar will be for my navigation bar, I have 6 different tabs they are; Home, news, what's on, gallery and contact. The third row is then for all the information and content that I will be including in my website.

Newspaper advert double page spread analysis

The double page spread that i have used it uses images and writing.The title is found on the right page. The article is on the left with. many different pictures. They are used mostly of people who would go to clubs of and people that are dancing, this gives a clear indication of what the magazine is about.
Black is used on the background to give dark club style feeling to the reader and the pictures used are bright and have neon lights that make them stand out against the black. The font used is white this is so the reader can read the writing on the black background. In this article there is no featured band, but the information it give us, connotes the idea that the article is for people who like to go clubbing.
The magazine uses informal language in this article as it uses words like ‘shit’ with phrases like chewing the fat. The words are not blocked out so it connotes the idea that the target audience for this magazine would be 17- 25 year olds as they are the typical ages that would be likely to go clubbing, and also use the phrases and words found in this article.The magazine article is very easy to read it is as though it wants a close relationship with the reader. The images used are of people dancing, this connotes that the article is about clubbing. They use a picture of the world; this is because the title is ‘rave the planet’. Also the picture of a smiley face with two recycling eyes these two images contradict each other. The front cover does match the article as both uses lively bright colours and pictures that are very eye catching, and words used on the front cover relates to the article like ‘party or die’

My logo;

This is my logo for my own website that I have designed, I created this on Photoshop. I find that it's quite simple but affective. I've used gradient circles underneath the lettering, all in different colours for the bold font to stand out more. I then used the line tool to produce pulse waves. 

Here is a screenshot of me designing my logo in photoshop, I used the font Dakota, in size 28 to 30. I  decided to use bold and italic, for the letters to stand out more. I left the colours in black because I wanted the gradient colours behind the lettering, for the single letters to stand out. 

This is another screenshot of half of the logo. This is showing my pulse waves which I created using the line tool to the left and right of the picture. I did this because i feels it gives another affect to the logo.  Originally I was planning on leaving all the gradient colours in red, but I felt that the letters needed to stand out more.   

Codes and conventions of newspapers;

Newspapers Codes and Conventions 
Codes include individual media, such as the type of articles included, prices, the types of advertisements, whether the information is quantitative or quantitative and much more. Conventions are the typical plot elements including conflicts and resolutions of a particular medium.
Each section has its own forms and conventions. Radio, newspapers, television and magazines and the internet have a different look and a different method of communicating and a different codes and conventions. Within a specific medium, you may also find distinct codes and conventions. A good example of this involving newspapers is that different newspaper have more qualitative information with others having quantitative. 'The times' national newspaper's price in the UK is 90p on weekdays and £2.00 on Sunday's, this paper is more qualitative and is generally seen as a serious publication with high standards of journalism. Where as 'the daily mirror', or 'the sun' is not much more than 50p, these are both seen as very cheap compared to 'The times'. The 'sun' and the 'daily mirror' are cheap newspapers with more quantitative information than qualitative. 

Brainstorming logo names;

I have looked at two different names that I would like to use for my website logo. My website will be based on music for teenagers applying for any gender.
The two names I have come up with are;

Pearl music & Pulse. 
When I researched Pearl music, many different websites were shown relating to pearl music. I found one website that was an actually studio which is called; http://www.pearlmusicstudio.co.uk/. I went against the idea of calling my website that, as it was copyrighting. 
Pulse 
I have checked to see if there was any other channels out there called pulse and I found one called pulse which was an entertainment channel focusing on eSports. It was launched on the 16th May 2007 and closed on the 2nd March 2009. The channel was broadcasted in the United Kingdom on British sky broadcasting. For more information on this website here is a link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_(TV_channel). 

The Brief Specifications for Media Studies Advanced Portfolio

A couple of weeks ago I  received the brief for OCR's Media Studies Advanced Portfolio A2 coursework. The main task outlined in the brief, is to design a website. The website that we will also create with be used to advertise our TV channel. My website will include original images, audio and video extract. I have begun my research on a number of different teen channels and there websites that help to promote them, this includes channels and sites that target teens. 

Before being formally given this brief, we were given some time to brainstorm any ideas on what type of TV Channel we were going to base our ideas on. 

I have started to research the TV industry and web-designing industry in some detail, looking at how a website is produced using particular programs, such as looking at typical case study TV websites around today.