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Analysis of Music television also known as MTV website:

Music television website also known as MTV is a website for those who love music and reading about their favourite celebrities in interviews and in articles. The MTV website gives you a variety of choices such as articles on the latest news of celebrities, interviews music videos and more. According to Wysocki the visual presentation of a page or screen gives you an immediate sense of its genre. The website also relates to the famous channel on television which is MTV and this website expands more on what comes on that channel but also to give readers more information about the famous and the rich.

On the website you are bombarded with images of famous celebrities and icons and the impression you may get is that this website is for a younger audience who are more interested in reading stories and watching interviews about celebrities as you get the sense when searching through the page to find that this website has plenty of articles and interviews about musicians, actors, and reality programs that will be aired on their MTV channel. According to Wysocki when you first look at a page or screen, you initially understand its functions and purposes because it follows the visual conventions of a genre. The website is filled with many photos of celebrities with the articles you want to read and that are related to that particular photo.

The website also gives you options if you want to read or watch stories of your favourite celebrities. These are aligned at across the top of the main page which are music videos, full episodes on reality shows, full schedule, artists you can find from A-Z, movie trailers, radio, online games and mobile. These links provide in detail what the specific page is about and what you can read and watch. The layout of the website is very well structured and easy to follow where you can click on specific stories and pages that you want to read about. The layout of the main page is arranged in three sections. The left side contains what will on MTV channel, popular music, top artists and trending topics. The middle section contains information about headlines of the latest news, interviews on celebrities and comments. The right section has stories of news about the rich and famous and browsing through to whichever music video you want to watch.

The main colour that dominates the website is the colour white. The main page of the website generally has the colour white including the fonts and headlines which are also in bold and white colour. The background colour changes consistently but the colours chosen are always bright colours to blend in with the main colour white. The articles are structured like a formal newspaper article with the headline in black and big, bolder writing.

According to Wysocki when a letter or word or sentence or paragraph is placed on a page or screen it is given visual materiality and hence must be given a particular letter shape, style, size and overall shape. The font size are also very simple and kept to 12-14 size, paragraphs can be seen and formal language is used to make the article serious. The amount of colour on the website to be precise is a variety of different bright colours that are carefully chosen in order to blend in with the main colour white and but also not to overpower the whole page.

This website is more for young people who are interested in celebrity gossip and news. This website gives them this type of information they want to read and watch about their favourite celebrities. The appearance of the main page has a lot of colours which you would assume it is not an academic based or literary website where the use of colour is limited. This website is more of a social and entertainment website that wants to give that appearance of an interesting and exciting website where you will not be disappointed but also can become addicted to.

The website has many photographs of famous and rich people. In their articles there is always a photograph of that famous celebrity so that this can grab your attention and want to find out more about the story. The typeface used in the articles are Roman typeface to make it look more formal and also the font size is 12-14 to make the layout seem very formal but also interesting because of the use of their background colours to make it look more appealing to the reader.

The website also allows readers and viewers to share their thoughts and feelings by writing comments underneath an article they read and viewers can also read these and write a comment if they wish to. In other websites the trend of this is also happening where you tend to find that you can write comments on an article if you want to share your view or thoughts about that article. This allows for readers to interact or debate on whether they share the same views or not.

In conclusion the visual elements, size of the page, colours and fonts all work together to make the website interesting for their audience and viewers and designed to make the website to get a lot of people to visit it on a daily basis. The creators of the website have taken into consideration in choosing very carefully the way the website would be structured, the colours that would be appropiate and the audience and anyone in general who are interested in the topics and stories they have on their website. They have a team of people who all produce ideas and create the website so that they can meet the expectations of their audience and anyone who decides to visit their website.