analysing another students blog

1. By Ellie Zambakides

2. • I looked through Geeta’s blog to see how she had presented all of the work
she had done to contribute to her final product. I first noticed the amount of
posts she had made (103 posts) which meant that I could immediately tell she
had probably documented everything she had done in the lead up to her
music video.
• Her blog stood out to me because of the amount of detail in her writing and
the different formats used for the posts, she had many videos, images, prezi’s,
powerpoints and much more. As well as writing that showed a lot of effort had
been put into it when she wrote the text.
• I also really liked the layout of her blog, I thought it was very clear and easy to
navigate. Moreover, she presented things in chronological order with her
finished product at the very top of the page.

3. • In addition I really enjoyed her blog as a whole because it is very
visual and easy to read. She has clearly put a lot of effort into her
blog and it show, this also makes it useful for her when she went on to
making the actual music video because she had done so much
detailed planning and there may have been less improvising the
video as everything is well thought-out, from the audience, to the
storyboard, props even background looks into the music industry
videos and her particular genre.
• Overall I would use this blog as a good reference when I start to post
on my own page as if I am struggling I can see how she has done
something and it could inspire me to create better posts and include
different ways of presenting my videos.

4. • When looking through her drafting section I noticed how detailed everything
was. There is a variety of different medias embedded into her blog and a lot
of the posts have a large amount of very descriptive text explaining what that
post is, as well as the actual post itself. There are a lot of images to show the
progression for everything she has created leading up to her final products. I
think she has done this section very well because she shows so many
examples of what she has been creating as well as feedback and much
more, this is very good as having a log of what your product has lead up to
will be very beneficial when evaluation your work.
• I particularly like the post that
shows her 2 drafts and the final
draft of her music video side by
side. It really allows the viewer to
see the progression she has
made and what she changed to
make the video better.

5. • Geeta has clearly put a lot of effort into her research which is a good idea, as
the research is the first thing you do in the process of making the video and if
you don’t research then it may make the time when you have to make your
video harder because you don’t know what to do. She has many many great
blog posts that use lots of colours and pictures. There are a lot of videos and
slideshares, however, I would mention that maybe a couple other things such
as scribd etc would also be a good idea to have.
• When looking through her research and then back at her finished video,
digipaks and advert it is very clear where her inspiration came from.
Moreover, all of the colours that is involved in her research is visibly reflected in
her work. Furthermore, most of her posts are of a high quality.
• My favourite post was the one that
she did on music theory, I really liked
this post because I thought it was very
detailed and covered so many
theories which will be very beneficial
to her when making the video.
Additionally it is helpful to me as I can
refer to her work to make sure I have
covered all of the theories she has
mentioned.

6. • In my opinion one of the strongest sections of her blog was the evaluation
section as it is very detailed and there is different medias on there. Each
question is a different post as well as being presented in a different way. She
used videos, text, images, Issuu etc. More importantly the questions are written
very well as they explain a lot and have a lot of information and detail in
them. It can be of use to me when I have to evaluate my work as now I know
that making videos, and creating different ways to view each question is a
good idea. I particularly like question 2 as it is a video but it has a voice over
and some of her video showing, as well as pictures and labels etc. I will try and
do something like this when it comes to evaluating my magazine.

7. • She had clearly done a lot of work on her blog
posts as they are al very detailed and she has
posted a lot of them. This means that because she
has done very good planning, drafting research
etc, she has a strong foundation to make her video
as there is a lot of structure to create the video.
• Furthermore, it is evident that she understood the
tasks she had to complete and has really thought
through what she wants to create, why she's
creating it, how she will create it and generally
everything that will go into the music video.
• There are lots of videos on her blog which is good
a big walls of texts can be daunting to read and
are less interesting and engaging. Therefore, by
having videos she can present the post in a way
the reader will find more entertaining.
• Her blog also seems very organised as though she
knew what she was doing and was confident in
her posts and what she was putting on her bog.

8. • Geeta’s blog is very helpful to me as I can see the level of detail and
amount of effort I have to put into my posts. Moreover, I know that I
need to use a variety of medias for my posts varying from videos I
made to prezis and anything else I can use. For example, her
evaluations use videos she has made, as well as text and an issuu
document that is available to read. This is very helpful as I know that
when I have to create this, it would be good to try a few different
things out rather then just having walls of text.
• I will also take on board how much detail she has gone into in her
writing, she mentions things throughout that at first glance I would not
have considered to include in my writing. Moreover, she puts a lot of
pictures on her blog to accompany the writing which is very useful
and as it is such a visual blog it makes it more interesting to look at
and read.