skins

E4- Skins

The background on the Skins website often chnages to other 'Skins' designs some of which have been created by everyday people from the redesigned the Skins logo competition.

Sponsored by BSM- relates to audience who watch Skins who are teenagers and so will be learning to dive or about to

Us- find out about the characters on Skins and what they like and don’t like- fave TV shows, movies, bands and websites this gives CH4 an opportunity to earn money by advertising certain websites through Skins.

Sign up- join the Skins community to get free downloads; receive exclusive content and the latest updates and it means CH4 will have your email to send you CH4 related info.

Episodes: watch the episodes on MySpace
Unseen Skins only available if you are a Skins member

Competitions: these happened before the launch of Skins which meant audiences got involved with the programme before it even started and this also created word of mouth of the programme. The competitions were redesigning skins: logo, music, fashion styling and short films.

Trailers; watch all the trailers
Forum: interactivity talk about certain Skins topics creating an online community
MySpace

Latest on Skins series 2- get involved
Lots of opportunities, including the chance to visit the set when they start filming in June- lots of interacivity for audinces making them feeling more involved

Wallpaper downloads from the logo re-design winners

Audience: Teenagers as they are the target audience of the show

Theory: Interactivity (competitions), Convergence (merging TV with internet) and reach as the internet provide a larger audience who will look at the website and become m0re intrested in the show.

Insitutions: CH4 may use the emails they receieve from the sign-up to send other information about CH4 shows they could be intrested in.

Lost Fansite

Fansites

They are becoming more and more popular with more people using the internet as it is cheaper and faster than before. Fansites are websites in which fans of a certain something can pursue this interest whether it is a sport, TV programme, actor/actress, band, singer or hobby. Fansites are made by a fan for the fans, and these people aren’t generally out for making profits but for pursuing their interest and a way to find other people like them. The internet has a massive potential reach as it is world wide which means these niche groups can form and come together. Fansites allow more interactivity within these groups than in the past. It has become possible and relatively easy for people to be able to start their own website, this means that anyone can set up a fansite.

I thought looking at fansite for a TV programme would be a good choice as it relates to the technology of television.

http://www.lost-tv.com/

The unofficial Lost Fan site
The main page to the website has a array of links and information

There is a welcome notice which includes:
‘This site is the first unofficial fansite for the show and was launched on 20 March 2004. If you wish to send anything my way - news, articles, pictures, links, wallpaper, etc. - then don't hesitate to email me at xander1600@yahoo.com.’

The main section of the front page is News and Updates, for example
Monday, January 08, 2007LOST Nominated for Producers Guild Award
Lost has been nominated for The Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television - Drama at this year's Producers Guild Awards. Other nominees in the category are Grey's Anatomy, House, The Sopranos, and 24. The winners will be announced on January 20.
(9:05 AM)
In case people wish to look at old updates there is a link to them.

‘Next on Lost’- a paragraph or so which tells fans what will happen next on Lost

There is a bar on the left hand side which is a list of links to other pages of the website for example:
News and updates
Cast: Photos of cast and their real and actor names, with a biography and flexography of them
Crew: Learn info about the creators and producers
Characters: Character information
Episodes: A list of all the episodes and info about them
Media: Downloads
Fan Section: Fan Fiction, Fan Art and Humour
Message Board

Advertisements: Amazon, Make Poverty History and ads powered by Google
Affiliates: LOST-TV Forums, Spoilerfix.com, Lostdaily.com, Stationzero etc
These institutions are using these fansites to advertise adverts and other websites.

This Lost unofficial website is powered by Google

These fansites will generally get viewers to look at their website, but some of these websites may not get many. This Lost website from its appearance and content must get an alright amount of surfers, but the forum with lists of different discussions did not have many posts with most with zero. This could be that people who go on this website do not go into the forum as they would just prefer to read Lost news and this fansite has to compete with other fansites and the official Lost fansite.

Theory
Interactivity- via the website
Diversification-internet allows these niche groups to form
Reach- internet can be reached by all so niche groups can form and setting up fan sites mean there are many potential people which could look at your website

King Kong website

King Kong

King Kong website which has dramatic background music which gives the website atomsphere

Market/ promotion of the film
Watch the trailer online
Cast and crew information: learn more about the cast and crew to become more involved in the film
Clips and more
Interviews: become involved with the actors and actresses themselves
Production notes: learn the more technical side to the making of the film
Special features: this allows the audience to see something extra than the film itself
Link to buy the King Kong itself promoting the game via the website

Attract the audience
Downloads- free to download and attracts the audience more
Wallpapers
Aim icons: can be sent to others on emails therefore word of mouth of the film occurs
Screensavers
Games: fun to do
Photos: can gain photos of the film if they wish so

Theory:
Interactivity- lots to get involved with within the website
Convergence- merging film with the internet
Reach- creating website which can be seen by all via the internet