1. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?”

2. Yomade Hundeyin Here is the link to our website. https://getawaynews. wordpress.com

3. Research To craft our website we used an online website called Wordpress. Our teachers advised us to use a website called wix.com. However upon reviewing the website personally and analysing other people reviews online, we felt that Wordpress was a better online web application to create a website on.

4. As a digital native, I have created a few websites for different purposes and I have experimented both with wix.com and Wordpress and I can safely say that Wordpress has better features in order to make a website. It also has a better format and layout and wix.com is prone to having format problems, especially when used by a mac OS (Operating System).

5. Planning At the beginning of the task when creating the news package, we assigned one task to each other. Jordan was responsible for creating the music. I was responsible for directing, filming and editing. Then we all did graphics individually. Jordan sought professional advice before he began to create the website. He knows web programmers personally so he inquired what was the easiest and most efficient software to use. He then carried out some research and checked out other youth travel websites such as STA Travel. He then saw some things he would like to incorporate into ours. Our main focus was to have things that would make people of the youth feel like our website is for them and not for anyone else. They are our target audience and we need to tailor our website to them. The way we achieved this was by having younger people on the website.

6. The Website The website had to consist of two pages. The website has an about page and a page featuring stories. We followed the codes and conventions of most news websites. The website has a page establishing the website then a news page. The website consists of advertisements to give of the feel that we are a real news service. There are two adverts. There is one on the left hand side of the screen and one on the right. The viewers will most likely catch eye to either one as the two adds are on the opposing sides of the colour spectrum. One is red and on is blue. These are seen as opposite. The website visitor will favour either one of the two colours which will draw their attention. This attention adds more revenue for our website as the more trafficking our website leads to, the more money we get from the website.

7. Problems with wordpress One problem I gathered from the get go is that Wordpress began as a blogging website. It’s internal server and software is tailored to be a blogging engine and it appears to be everywhere in the codebase. This we encountered a few issues with coding when trying to create the website. Another problem I incurred was that tutorials tend to be inconsistent and or inadequete. Most of the tutorials are by people who may or may not have an understanding of what they are actually teaching. Luckily for us we know how to use Wordpress and therefore it didn’t serve much of a problems to us

8. Audience Appeal. We added our Twitter and Facebook link to our website. We did this to appeal to younger people. As we are also young we understand that young people use social media. This is one of the many things we did to appeal to our target audience.

9. About Page On our about page we included a summary of who we are, what we are looking to achieve with our news service and job opportunities. We followed the layout of many other news services. Examples of these are BBC, STA travel etc. We did this to follow the codes and conventions of a news website. We also challenged the codes and conventions by using a photo of all three of us to our audience know we are one of them, a young teen who wants to travel.

10. News stories We also included news stories. These stories include young people all the time. We also reported the holidays from relatable destinations such as Malia for example. These stories are very relatable to teens and it gives them things to avoid when they go to their destinations.

11. Main Page On our main page we used a picture of a young person (Youth) to establish ourselves as a news service for young people from the jump. We used a young person holding his passport. This was a shot from our opening sequence but we felt it should be used on our website as it represents what we stand for. Helping teens travel.

12. Here is what our main page looks like Here is an advert Our advice Our about page Our twitter.