Ill Manors e-media: website analysis

Ill Manors e-media: website analysis

1. Examples of the Ill Manors brand on the website screengrab range from the very logo itself to the appearance of characters that starred in the film and also the same sky that we can find in the poster for the film.
2. The website encourages people to interact with, perhaps through buying, Ill Manors products through not only a 'BUY NOW' section on the website, but also through it saying 'ON BLU-RAY, DVD, DOWNLOAD AND ON-DEMAND NOW' and more simply in the centre of the page below a window on a house: 'ILL MANORS BUY NOW.'
3. Plan B uses elements of social media in the sense that the layout of his website can be said to reflect that of a blog or in fact a social network like Twitter. This can be said especially with the fact that some of the posts on 'The Wall' are set out in a manner akin to Twitter - username up top and tweet below.  To top this off is the fact that there is a section called 'The Wall,' something popularised by social networks like Facebook.
4. This statement links essentially directly to the TEDx lecture in which Plan B discussed the usage of the derogatory term 'chav' by not just members of the public but also newspaper publications. He discusses the exact same thing here while also talking about him not condoning or justifying the riots. I agree with the claim he made in the article about this in the sense that through the Ill Manors products what he attempts to do is display the life that a lot of the participants in the riots went through and establish that as somewhat of a cause/reason they did what they did.
5. Social media is overtaking official websites mainly due to the fact that social media is just a lot more easy to access than them. Pre-installed on people's phones and something predominantly used everyday, the networks are a perfect place for institutions to promote their products on. As well as this is the fact that social networks offer most of the features that an official website would to an institution perhaps bar a few customisation options e.g. video and photo uploads.