Analysis Of Previous Students Blog.

1. Analysis of
Previous
Students Blog.

2. Ellie Zambakides’ Blog
★ I looked through Ellie’s A2 blog to see how she had presented all of her work
throughout the year. What I initially noticed was the considerable amount of
different posts she had made, which immediately allowed me to realise that she
must have documented everything she had done in the build up to completing
the final product, allowing us to see the full journey her video went through.
★ Her blog really stood out to me due to the fact that all of her blog posts went
into a significant amount of detail, and also how her posts varied in the format
in which they were posted, overall making her blog a lot more interesting.
★ In addition, I also thought her blog was set out in a very organised and pretty
format allowing me to easily navigate through the different pages looking at all
of the different elements of her work whilst making it look appealing!

3. Ellie Zambakides’ Blog
★ Furthermore, I wanted to continue looking at the different posts she had made
on her blog due to there being a large variety of formats used, for example:
some posts were visual (videos/photos) others were written. I also felt as
though she definitely chose each format carefully as they all seemed very
suitable for the different types of posts she had made allowing her blog to not
only be organised but also have a very professional appearance.
★ Overall, I would use this blog as a good reference for when I start to make my
own posts on my page as I feel as though if I begin to struggle I can look back
and see how she had completed whatever I am struggling with, and use her
ideas as some inspiration for my own work as I can see that she put in a lot of
hard work and it clearly must have paid off in the end.

4. When you initially open Ellie’s blog this is the
first thing that we are presented with and
these pictures and headings also enable the
user to navigate around her blog as you can
click on either of them.
Not only is this feature of her blog convenient
for the user, but it also has a very organised
and pretty appearance following a black and
white colour scheme which looks very
sophisticated. Furthermore, the fact that she
has used her own images (possibly
screenshots from her final video) also gives
the user an insight to what her theme/video is
about making them become more intrigued.
As we are able to see, Ellie has
clearly put in a significant amount
of effort into her blog posts, as
there is both a lot of detail that has
been included whilst also including
different visual features to make
the posts look more appealing for
users if a large quantity of text has
been used (for example: the post
on the left hand side.)
As well as this, even if her post has
been formatted in a multi-media
format such as a video (the post on
the right hand side) she has also
chosen to include a written
description below in order to
summarise the post and give the
user an insight to what the post is
about before they watch/listen to it.

5. Planning Page
★ Whilst I was browsing through Ellie’s planning page, I instantly noticed how
detailed everything was. I saw that there was a variation of different medias
that has been embedded into her blog and a lot of her posts also had large
descriptive summaries placed below them allowing the users to get a bit of an
insight to what each post was about before actually reading them. She has also
included a lot of images to not only show her progress along the way but also to
make the posts look a lot more visual and interesting. I think she has completed
this section very well due to the amount of detail she has chosen to include and
the very professional standard in which her posts have been made to.
★ Sometimes during the creation of a new product ‘planning’ can be seen as
messy, however she has been able to present rough drafts as very neat and tidy.

6. To the right hand side are just a few
examples of the posts and features
that have been included and posted on
Ellie’s planning page.
Just from these three pictures we can
clearly see that not only has she used
a good variety of different formats for
her posts as she has used a
photograph of a sketch that she had
drawn, and has also embedded a
word document, but not only this, she
has also managed to make everything
look very organised and tidy
throughout. For example, if a user was
to hover their mouse over the
‘planning’ tab another three tabs would
appear below the main tab, further
separating her work into different
categories making her blog even more
user friendly and easy to navigate
around the blog.
In addition, as I previously mentioned
she has also chosen to include a
typed summary below some of her
posts giving the user of her blog a
quick insight to what each post is
conveying.
Overall, her planning page has
definitely shown the progress she was
able to make along the way of creating
her final product, it has made clear the
amount of skills and confidence she
was able to pick up with the practice

7. Research Page
★ Ellie had clearly put in a lot of effort for her research tasks, which was definitely
a good idea as it meant that she was able to look into pre-existing music videos
and find multiple ideas that would possibly inspire her. She evidently took a lot
of time on her research as she has documented multiple things even if she didn't
use all of her research, she still documented it for her own reference to look
back on if she ever got stuck and needed some assistance.
★ My favourite research post that Ellie made was the ‘research into music labels’
post as although she simply formatted this post on a slide-show the amount of
information and images she included made it a really interesting post and I
myself was able to learn a few things that I did not already know which will now
probably be a help to me when completing my own research tasks.

8. I found this blog post on her research
page to be very interesting even though
it was just simply formatted as a slide
show due to the fact that it included a
large quantity of detailed information
and different images to go with it, tying
all of the information together and
allowing it to look a lot more visual.
As you can see multiple images, logos
and post formats have been used to
make her blog more interactive and
interesting for the users which I think
makes the research section of her blog
definitely look highly successful and as
though she has put in a lot of time in
effort into completing it! Which clearly
paid off as she made a very successful
music video at the end of the project.

9. Evaluation Page
★ In my personal opinion, I feel as though Ellie’s evaluation section is one of the
strongest sections within her blog, as although all of the other sections do
include a lot of detail, this section does include great amounts of detail where
she is also being self critical about her own work and it was interesting to read
what she thought about the whole experience of making a music video from the
start of the course to finishing all of the tasks.
★ She not only formatted some of her evaluation as a magazine using the site
‘issu’ but she also included a very detailed video which was made to be even
more interesting by having visual aspects pop up on screen as she was talking
about them, keeping the video lively, interesting and entertaining. Overall I
thought her evaluation was done to a very high standard!

11. Why Was Her Blog Successful?
★ I believe that Ellie’s blog was successful as she clearly put in a whole lot of effort
into every single post that she had made on her blog. Overall, this means that
she had completed every section of her blog to a great standard including the
planning, drafting, research, evaluation and the final products. She had a very
strong foundation when it came to making her video as not only was all the
planning and research there, but it was all completed to an exceptional
standard, allowing her to have a lot of great work to look back on!
★ Her blog was also successful due to the variation of formats she had included, as
this made her blog that little bit more interesting and different to your ‘typical
written blog.’ As well as this, all of the posts were presented in a very organised
and elegant fashion making her blog look very attractive.

12. What Can I Learn From Her Blog?
★ Ellie’s blog will be very helpful to me as I think I will most definitely go back to
looking at her blog at different stages of my music video creation to look more
elements of inspiration that I could possibly use in my own work. I am now
aware that I will need to use a variation of different medias for my blog posts
varying from slideshows, videos and prezis.
★ I would also like to take on board quite how much detail she has put into each
an everyone of her blog posts, she discusses many great things that I would
probably would have never thought about myself. In addition, she has chosen to
put a lot of pictures on the different pages of her blog to accompany the large
quantities of writing which allows the blog to look a lot more visual and
appealing, allowing the users to find it more interesting altogether.