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Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Analysing students' Thriller Blogs Pt.1

Jonathan Hawes 2011

Blog Analysis

As someone who prefers bright colours and interesting design, the first thing I noticed about this blog when I opened it, is the absense of these aspects, frankly it looked boring, however, judging the content by this would be rather unfair and it is rather my personal opinion, and not something the blog's standard should be measured against. I also dislike that formatting of the text as it's alligned to the left, rather than justified, however, this is also up to my own personal taste and I simple prefer my own text to be 'justified' and spread across the page.

The layout of the actual blog is rather organised, and how I would personally organise my own blog myself. For an example, the 'final edit' video is put into a separate post all together called 'Final Edit' which makes it very easy to a. find the video and b. differentiate it from anything else by clearly labelling it.


Another aspect of this blog that I like is the fact that they've provided screenshots of certain tasks they performed to complete their edits etc. For an example, in the above screenshot, Hawes provided a screenshot of how he created the transition between the audio clips so that it runs smoothly. I myself plan to provide screenshots of such methods to use as evidence that Ed and I have used such and such method for the editing of certain aspects of our opening sequence.

Another thing that I noticed while scrolling through this blog, is that a lot of it is text based. There isn't any sort of shift in media or more exciting forms of presentational devices which he could've used. Although the information is concise and accurate such as the example above, it is rather overwhelming and information such as this, I personally would've put into a presentation similar to 'Power Point'.

  Overall response

Overall, this blog is made rather uninteresting, especially due to the absense of a variety of media, however, the information contained is very specific and concise without excess information which may distract the reader from the subject. 

If I were to improve specific posts or include posts in this blog, I would make sure to contain pictures and evidence of filming and editing on specific dates. As well as this, I would ensure to put my information into different presentation formats to make the overall experience of the reader more enjoyable.

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