Coursework

 NEA Introduction

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1. NEA stands for non-examined assessment

2. You can not work in groups ✔

3. You can not use any found images ✔

4. The NEA is 30% of your grade ✔

5. For your product to look realistic it has to match codes and conventions

Friday 13 June

Conventions Research

Ani DiFranco- https://anidifranco.com/

The main homepage has a photo of her as well as her album covers.

The main image is taken from a long shot.

The colours give the effect of it being rustic and has a background that looks like old paper.

The icons are along the top. 

The menu bar has: News, about, music, books, videos, tours, patreon, store, contact

She is presented as a solo, confident and independent woman.

It has links to buying her most recent album and tours.

The fonts are in bold and caps for the main statements, then lower case underneath.

About page:

It has the same background and colour palette.

There is photos of herself on the left and a paragraph of text about her on the right, which alternates down the page.

At the bottom there is a collection of photos from her personal life.

There is 6 images which each relate to the paragraph about her and show different stages of her life and career.

It uses the same style and size of font except for the title which is in bold.

The first paragraph is a summery of all her accomplishments, the others go into more detail about what she's done over the years and how her career has progressed.

She is presented as a strong woman advocate as well as being a music artist, but also all of the journeys she has went on to stand up for rights and her beliefs.

Allison Russel- https://allisonrussellmusic.com/

The main homepage has a video of her (which is blocked:) , her recent music, her tour and her merch.

The images are the album covers which are long shorts or medium long shots.

Theres a colour scheme of purple, pink and gold. The background is textured.

Her name is in the top right and in gold with a different font to the rest of the text.

The pages are about, music, videos, tour and shop.

She is represented as a colourful and bold person.

There are links to her music albums and her tour.

The font used for her name is quite modest, the fonts used for her albums is block capitals and a thicker font.

About page:

the colour scheme and the layout is the same. The icons in the top bar also do not change.

there is two paragraphs in the centre of the page.

there are no images used.

there is one font used and under the title in bold saying 'about'

the text is separated into three paragraphs but are the same width on the page, they talk about her success and what awards she has achieved.

the artist is represented as an empowering figure for black people and queer people.

For folk music websites i would expect to see:

imagery- photos of the artists

colour palette- dark colours (beige white grey black)

typography- block capitals, bold fonts

lexis- simple, country, english

mise en scene for artists- instruments (typically holding guitar) , women in old fashioned or casual clothing, men in casual suits

representation of artists- retro, more chill,