Interactive Media Industry

Subscriptions
Selling things in shops
Paying for downloads
Digital TV package
Online games
Selling things online
Theatres/cinemas
Sales/cutting prices
Letting people advertise on your site/shop - banners
Commissions
Donations – freeware/user input
Affiliates
Franchising – licensing your brand to others
Syndication

Market Trends

Products and Services
Objectives & Plans
Competitors
International and national market trends

Sources

www.brandrepublic.com/revolutions - Digital/interactive
www.developmag.com – Games development
www.nma.co.uk – New Media
www.designweek.co.uk – Design Week

Mags

Wired – US News/review
Computer Arts – General
Net – Web
Creative Review – The Arts
Media Guardian – Weekly Supplement

Product services – what sells, and who buys it etc.

Vision of organisation – what the organization wants to achieve, etc.

Objectives and plans of organisation – what the company plans and aims for, what they want to achieve. (

Competitors – people within a similar market that you are competing against. (TWO PEOPLE STARING IT OUT)

Customers – the buyers (PICTURE OF PERSON WAITING)

International and national market trends – keeping product up to date within either the country’s market trends, or world’s market trends. (WORLD WITH CURRENCIES)

As there are six sections (listed above), we are going to concentrate on 2 ideas each, and do the research for them individually.

We are going to create a website with six different pages, and we are going to create two pages each. We will first create the website layout in class together, and then we will come up with the content for the website individually. This ensures that everything will be finished within the time limit and effectively.

Suite 302
Ashbourne House
334 Wellington Road North
Heaton Chapel
Stockport
SK4 5DA

“Welcome! We are Vanilla Storm and we provide professional and affordable web site design services. Working mainly with small businesses, we help them to gain a web presence and to promote their products and services to a global audience.”

The above message is taken directly from Vanilla Storm’s website, www.vanillastorm.com. Vanilla Storm is a reputable web design company, who are based in Heaton Chapel in South Manchester. They were established in 2004 by Richard and Jenny Hudson. The company has even been nominated for the Big Chip Awards in 2005 and 2006. They have worked with a number of businesses in the creative sector, including fashion designers, artists and jewellery designers. Below are several of the websites Vanilla Storm has created, along with several comments directly from the companies the websites were created for.

Christian & Co.
www.christian-co.co.uk
“We are very impressed with the design and delivery of our new website by Vanilla Storm. Right from the beginning, everything was conducted in a very professional manner, and we were always kept up to date with the progress of the site. The project was finished on time, and already several clients have complemented us on the site look and simplicity of use.”
The Streetfathers
www.thestreetfathers.com
“When we started to look in the very large sea of web design companies, I can honestly say we found a real Pearl in Vanilla Storm, from the initial concept to the finished site, nothing was too much trouble, even when we asked for new ideas to be added to our site, this was all done very swiftly and we are very happy with the finished product! I would strongly recommend Vanilla Storm to anyone!!!!”

Me & My Accessories
www.meandmyaccessories.com
"I highly recommend Vanilla Storm. Both Jenny and Richard have been a total pleasure to work with - top class service and communication, great value for money and superb after care with changes made to the web site in a quick timeframe. They are true champions of going the extra mile, from meeting tight deadlines through to fashion designer recommendations to feature on the Me and My Accessories web site. I have been extremely happy with everything and if you need a web site developing you shouldn’t look anywhere else (especially if you’re in the fashion industry as Jenny & Richard’s knowledge is invaluable)."

Hello!

My name’s Rosie, I’m twenty years old and for the next two years I am doing a BTEC National Diploma in Creative Technology. Before I did this course I spent almost three years working in different offices. It wasn’t an ideal career move but after leaving school I had a crisis of confidence and needed to take some time out to recover. I have always been interested in the media, and have always been creative, although it’s been somewhat dampened due to my lack of confidence. However, when I saw this course in the college booklet, I instantly knew that it would be the right move to take. It included many of the things I have always been interested in but have never tried, so it seemed ideal.

My ideal career choice would be either a web designer or a musician. I have previously taken a web design course and enjoyed it very much, and I have been playing the piano since I was five years old.