Media Text Similarities

Webpage

Straight away you can see similarities between our website (the left) and the official Justin Timberlake website (the right). Both sites have pictures of the artist in a similar layout and in a similar position on the actual site . Both of the sites also have a picture of the artist in the background, the official Justin Timberlake site has a picture of Justin Timberlake as the whole background where as our website has the picture of the artist faded into it.

Website

Both of our websites have a twitter feed to update his fans on recent news. Having a twitter feed on an artists website is useful as it helps to publicise the artist as more people will recognise he is on twitter and potentially follow him which will help him to promote his new albums or singles.

Website

The two websites also have tour dates on them. This is another promotion technique. This informs fans of when they can go see the music artist near them or if they want to follow him on tour.

CD Cover

The two CD covers have number of similarities, they both have a picture of the artist with a background which relates to the album/single. The Justin Timberlake album is called ‘Justfield’ with an image of a desert behind him; the single for our CD cover is tunnel vision and we have an image of our artist with an image of a tunnel behind him.

Video

Our Music video starts off similar to a number of other music videos, the first shot is an extreme long shot of a city. The purpose of this is to set the scene of the video. One music video which does this is Empire State of Mind by Alicia Keys, however the styling of their extreme longshit is different to ours as our music video has a still long shot of London where Empire state of mind has different flashing images of New York.

Video

Another similarity between our music videos and others is the use of the Green Screen. Green screen is used in nearly every music video which is produced now. Green screen is very effective as it allow to give the appearance that artist is in a setting which they are not actually in. This allows for a lower budget cost of the Music Video. The green screen image which we used in our music video was a tunnel as it relates to the title and chorus of the song.