Music MagazinesPractical Question

Question 4: Creative TaskPLEASE REMEMBER THE ORDER CAN CHANGE

• You will be supplied with an A3 sheet of paper to produce your design. It would be a good idea to draw your webpage leaving room to write annotations around the perimeter of your design. These would explain the decisions that you have made to the examiner.

• Your content needs to be appropriate the brand values. The ideas you came up with for Question 2 and 3 will be a good starting point... Remember it’s states a page, not a homepage so considering how you might include conventional elements such as the title, colour, font, images to link in with the overall aesthetic appeal.

• You must observe the conventions of a webpage - consider how your reader will navigate the page with hyperlinks and where these hyperlinks should be placed. How should your content be arranged on the website? Research existing sites for ideas and good practice.

• Consider the advantages of the webpage format - interactive elements like moving image footage, animations, sound, music, links to other sites - and how these could be used to attract your target audience. You should also explain how these techniques could be used to present information effectively

• Link to social networking sites - how could these be used? You might also consider how to use forums or microsites (blogs) to develop relationship between the text and audience

Q.4 will test your ability of recall, select and communicate knowledge and understanding (AO1)

It will also test the ability to construct and evaluate your own products (AO4)

Title of website and URL (address of website) Search engine

Similar layout/typography/colour schemes to the show. Why?

Hyperlinks easy navigation

Embedded video clips/Streams/Podcasts

Sign in/ Register links/Subscriptions

Synergy, social media, cross media

Institution/ Production company

Appropriate style of writing

Graphics/Logo design in header