Commentary on different sites [OCR National]

Date – 02/06/08

New {full} albums to be sold, HMV:

URL: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/home.do

Validity: Effective as it is one of the first search results, the website is organised in a way as to make it easy for the viewer to search for albums and/or singles and buy them. It clearly provides the information that I wanted – which are the names of new music albums, along with pictures and prices.

Trustworthiness: Reliable source as it is a national store, as shown on the website’s ‘store searcher’. The information is regularly updated – for example, I searched for the date that Usher’s ‘Hear I Stand’ album has come out and it came out on May 27th.

Date – 02/06/08

AOL Music

URL: 

Validity: Effective as it is sponsored by one of the world’s biggest ISPs – AOL. It is also reliable as it has provided me with the exact in which the singles have come out on, for some tracks even providing the lyrics. Best of all, it allowed me to listen to the track before choosing to advertise it in order to think about target audience etc.

Trustworthiness: The webpage appears to be updated constantly. On my second visit (15th Feb. 09), for example, the singles have been updated according to date -

Date – 20/06/08

Picture to used on flyer

URL:

Validity: The search was effective via Google Images; I could easily pick out the image that I thought would be best fit for an image to give viewers the idea that Downloadable Tunes is selling music. The image is therefore also reliable as it fits in well with the ‘music theme’ which I had created.

Trustworthiness: Although a foreign site, the article which contains the image seems to be addressing iPods. The page is still on now (15th Feb.09) from the last time that I have visited the page, over 8 months ago (June 2008). Comments page has a lot of input which makes the source even more trustworthy.

Date – 01/02/2008

‘They will understand the implications of copyright’:

URL:

Validity: Effective as it was the one of the first links from Google when I searched for ‘copyright laws in UK’. It is also reliable because it provides dates as to when different laws relating to copyright have passed.

Trustworthiness: It is certified and protected by copyright law which must also mean that is recognised by others as being valid in information, thus making it a trustworthy source.

Date of information – April 2000. This may seem rather outdated but provides the fundamentals of copyright law, which, reading on Wikipedia, appear to have not changed.

Certificates:

Local Media: Graphics from Drawplus gallery:

Pictures that I may used on Flyer/Newsletter –