Ill Manors e-media: website analysis:

1.) 

The Ill Manor's official website screen grab above shows a lot of brand images. Examples include things such as:

• The blatant trend and synergy of #ILL MANORS for social media imprinted above the door
• Ill Manor's promotion, displaying "Ill Manors Buy Now" below the bottom right window
• Several other links about the film, director, etc
• There is also a quite hidden or just hard to see billboard in the background to the right

2.) The website encourages for visitors to interact and buy their products, given that it is a website, therefore on the Internet for anyone to access, so as a result reaching a wide spread of audience. Several links on the left also lead to other links, ultimately creating a synergy, and one product leading to another product, etc.. An example would be the "Ben Drew" and "Albums" links. They can both refer to Ben Drew "Plan B" as an artist, encouraging viewers to buy his albums etc, so the publicity that this film gets, Plan B gets too. 

3.) The main social media used in Plan B's official website is Twitter, given that at the time it was very, very popular, so it would only make sense to use it in order to gain access to a large audience range. However, there are other social medias as listed by their icons on the top right:

• Soundcloud
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook
• YouTube

Content and design wise, videos, tweets regarding Plan B or his film, or any of his work is always displayed on the homepage. It sort of acts like a real time, resents page.  

4.) To a certain extent, the issues outside the origins of the riot cannot be justified, but still only to an extent, but not entirely, given that it is an act of violence/anti-social, criminal behaviour with no good intentions to restore a resolution or any sort. Authoritative statements on very dynamic issues, especially regarding politics should be avoided. Ben Drew "Plan B"'s album song and film may help raise awareness, and as a result create more opinions, insights on the London riots. During the time, teenager's bad reputation were at it's peak, mindless riots, destroying of things, etc, and it truly made their image worse than it already is. Plan B's album and film may help turn things around, seeing that he's grew up in the same areas around today's anti-social, criminal youths, so he feels connected to them in a sense.

5.) Social media overtakes websites, given that the majority of people do in fact use them in the 21st century, Social media has different platforms, therefore allowing access to a wider audience, ultimately creating more publicity, then more publicity for it's 'popularness'; it is a domino effect that happens in social media. This is significant in especially some social medias such as Twitter, the use of hashtags can create trends for anything. YouTube too, knowing that it is the 2nd most visited website in the Internet.