The document discusses ways in which the media product, a website, conforms to and challenges conventions of real music artist websites. It conforms by using open and minimalist designs inspired by deadmau5, featuring a large introductory video, store page, news page, gallery of pictures, and contact page. However, it also challenges conventions by having a unique banner, quirky color scheme, mixing of information on the homepage inspired by Beck, and inclusion of a blog which is uncommon for this music genre. The goal was to create a genre-fitting website that also had an independent style.

1. Evaluation question 1 : in what ways
does your media product use
develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?

2. website
I liked the open feel of deadmau5s website with lots of space and so I chose to use
this site as my main inspiration. As you can see I also used a very open minimalist
design without too many buttons and features to overcrowd the user. I also used the
huge single video on the home page as deadmau5 and also the prodigy has done to
make it very easy for users to see a video and bring it forward. However I also
subverted with a more independent style banner in the repeated image of the album
cover across the top along with a more quirky style colour code subverting the genre.
Overall I used wix to the best of my ability to try and create a suitable genre fitting
website with seemingly not a lot of information but in fact contains many different
buttons such as a youtube,blogger,facebook,twitter and many other application links
on the site.

3. Website
I used elements of becks FrontPage also, as he has a very blog feel
to his home page with a mish-mash of information across the
screen I did this by using my header repeatedly and having
several images on the gallery page. I also conformed by having a
store page on my website to sell band merchandise a common
feature seen on most artists webpage of my genre.

4. Website
One way I conformed was having a news page. A common feature it displays decent
reviews of the band and information about upcoming projects and releases.
I also conformed to deadmau5s website by having a social media bar although I
refined mine including only the largest social media sites, I also subverted by having a
different background to every page this is rarely seen.

5. Website
Another way I conformed and used deadmau5s website was in having a gallery section
showing the artists most recent pictures and performances. However I subverted this
by having a wider spectrum of pictures that not only concerned the artistic featuring
more artistic shots.

6. website
I conformed to genre by having a contact page that shows how you can get in
contact with the band. This is common feature of EDM(alternative) genre and
most music genres as it shows the audience how to reach out and communicate
with the artist they want to communicate with.

7. website
A different feature I didn’t find on any of the artists websites I looked at was
a blog feature. This feature subverts the genre as not many artists use blogs.
I edited the blogger on my website to fit in with its colour scheme and look
more appropriate as the blogger features don’t fit well with a website.