Thursday, 17 November 2011

Survey Results

I created a survey to find out what type of websites and tv channels are most popular so I know what audience I should aim my tv channel towards. Here are some of my results I have found out from my tv channel survey results.


I asked this question because I wanted to find out what tv channels were most popular. I have found out from this question that the most popular genre channel that people watch are soaps, dramas and comedy genres. And 33.33% of people who took my survey were under 21 years of age. This was the highest % of my audience survey viewers. This means that I will defiantly be aiming my survey towards an audience based towards teenage and people under 21 years of age. This will be very useful for me as this is the audience I was planning on targeting and also the audience age that I am currently in. 


I have decided to go for a Urban music and dance theme for my tv channel towards a teenage audience. MTV was voted as the most popular music channel which is good for my music channel research as I also watch this channel and they play the sort of music I am basing my channel on. As you can see I have also asked do they watch any sports channels because I am also going to have a sports theme running through my channel also but mainly towards urban sports such as breakdancing, bmx'ing and parkour. Although the most popular channel for the sporting channels shows sky sports 1 which is based around international football and horse racing I am still basing my tv channel on the extreme channel because it is sports that I find exciting and I know will go well which the Urban theme I have chosen. 


Urban music is based around modern music such as pop, r&b and dance. As you can see by my results these three music styles have been chosen as the most popular which means I can include the Urban music theme easily onto my website and run through my tv channel. Out of a total number of 15 people who viewed my survey 6 people chose that pop was their favourite music genre. This as given me the decision that I am going to include a downloading section on my website where my audience can download the most recent pop music. 


I have asked the question, What features would you like to be available on a website? Because I wanted to find out what features would be best to include on my website for my target audience. One feature I will defiantly be adding onto my website is a gallery because 7 people have said they would like this feature to be available. This is because people rather looking at pictures than reading information of the page. Another popular feature people like to see on a website is news so I will be updating my website with the latest news in the urban world. 



I will not be including many adverts on my website or on my tv channel because clearly in my results people are really not interested in viewing them. People I have also asked publicly have stated them to be annoying and they do not see the point in them at all. 


Things I need to take into consideration when planning my website, double page spread and my advert for a newspaper are images, colours and the layout. These are the three main things that people say that attracts them to adverts so I need to take this into great consideration when producing them. 

Overall these results will help me greatly when planning and producing my coursework because they have helped me to make a final decision on the theme of my tv channel, which is Urban music and dance. It was also helped me gather ideas for the structure of my coursework stating that the layout, colours and images need to be eye catching and attractive if I am going to attract the right audience. I am now going to get started on planning my website, double page spread and newspaper advert. I was surprised at the amount of people that said they don't watch sports programmes because I thought sport was rather popular but 61% said they don't watch sports channels. Even though these results show a lack of sporting channel views I am still going to have a hint of Urban sport running through my channel. 






Logo Ideas




I have be looking on a website www.dafont.com which gives me examples of many different fonts I could use for my website. Here are some examples I have found and liked as possible logo fonts: 




Here are some symbols that I am hopefully going to include in my logo for my Urban music and Dance themed channel. 



All of the images and fonts above that were taken of the dafont.com and the policy on all the ones i am using states that they are free for personal use. 








Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Planning My Double Page Spread


This is a basic drawing of my double page spread. I have gone for a basic layout to start me off as i have never designed one before. As i gain more experience and progress in the designing stage I will add more effects and use a more complicated layout when using kompozer. At the top I am going to have my logo in large bold font across the two pages because I want my name to stand out and attract people to view my channel. The layout I have gone for at the moment I have split into three sections, on the left I am going to place images that I have taken that relate to what my channel is going to be about which is urban music and dance. In the centre I am going to put a text box which inside has a synopsis of my channel, this will be very creative and use typical teenage slang to try and attract the audience my channel is aimed at. On the right and page going vertically downwards I am going to have my tv channel schedule showing what channels are going to be on at what times of the day. 

Friday, 4 November 2011

Planning My Newspaper Ad


This is a basic drawing of the first possible idea for my newspaper advertising. I have chosen this basic layout because I think it will stand out a lot clearer for the audience reading the newspaper. Clearly this is on a basic drawing because this is only planning. The logo will be bright and colourful and appealing to the audience and the image will be relevant to my channel following the theme of teenage urban music and dance. The text will be basic information that is useful and easy to understand telling information about my TV channel. 

Possible Titles For Channel

My channel will have the theme and genre of Urban Music and dancing. The audience it will be aimed towards is the teenage population as I feel they will relate to this sort of channel most.

Title Ideas:

Urban
Beat Box
Decks
Urban Dex
Hiphop-unorthodox
BFAB (born from a boom box)

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Website Ideas (PAGES)

Some of the pages I am going to include on my website are:
Homepage - My home page will link up all my other pages together and will be the navigation page of my website. It will also have a brief synopsis of my website telling the teenage audience I am aiming it at what they can find on my website.

News - This page will show news of latest releases by artist in the modern music charts and also what they have been up to recently. It will also have some images and possibly a video clip.

Gallery - This page will be mainly images that I have taken for my website. It will have picture of celbribies and events that have happened recently displaying, model shots, action shots and hiden camera shots.

Download - This page you will be able to download the latest music and listen in on the songs you want to listen to.

Competition - This page will be my competiton page and on here you will be able to enter in on competitons to win some spectaular prizes.

Entertainment - This page you will be able to interact fully with the websute, downloading, watching video clips and looking at the latest images taken of the stars.
Events - This page will tell you about up coming events such as gigs, festivals and sporting events.

Contact - Contact page will supply easy information on how to contact the website creators if you have any questions to ask.

Most of the pages above I will include in my website as they are commonly found on websites that my teenage population audience are interested in viewing. I will fully link all my pages with the theme I have chosen to use which is Urban music and dance. I will also make my pages very easy to navigate as I am going for the use of a navigation bar at the top of may page. I will also have on my homepage a small box of each page so that you can click straight to the page you want to view as well as having the navigation bar at the top underneath my logo/title.

Website Ideas (CONTENT)

I am basing my website on the modern theme of Urban music and dance. I have chosen this theme because it interests me and i have many ideas for the content. Some of the music I will include on my website will be up to date in the charts and I will also include some other Urban music artists such as Skrillex. Dancing as become a lot more popular in the last year than it ever has been before due to more Urban style dancing is being released. Breakdance, Hiphop, Street, Shuffle and Hardstyle dance has become very popular within the teenage population so this theme of dancing will run strongly through my website. My content will include a number of images, videos and text sections to keep the audience interested and involved with my website. My website will be aimed at a teenage audience as I think the theme and genre of my idea is very modern towards a sterotypical teenager today. Looking at my survey results and taking fellow friends and pupils into consideration, genrally the websites they visit are music or social networking sites. This is another reason why I am basing my website around this theme and genre aswell as it intresting me.

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Planning My Website


The photo above is of my pencil drawing of an idea for the layout for my website. This is only basic and I may change this when producing it in kompozer. I am going to use a variety of texts, images and colours on my homepage to make it attractive and appealing to my teenage audience.