Analysis of Previous Student’s Blog

By Ellie Zambakides

Geeta Gohil • 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.

• 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.

Why Her Blog Was Successful

• 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.

• 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.

What Can I Learn From her Blog