Emma Snow 2016
Blog Analysis
Immediately when I look at this blog, I am drawn into it by the graphics which I see. For an example, the first post I see is not a block of text. It does not look dawning, instead I was actually compelled to flick throught the presentation myself because it looked intriguing. The background itself also contributes to the fact that this person obviously put a lot of effort into producing a blog which looked both interesting and thus likely filled with significant information.
As I scrolled through this blog, I also realised that she has a variety of dynamic presentations which make the experience for the viewer much more enjoyable than just reading plain text which often looks daunting.
Furthermore, her titles are very clear which make it easy to find certain posts, especially if you're looking for a specific answer to a specific question. For an example, in the picture on the left, she includes the question which her presentation is about, so if one is looking for the answer for that question in section six of the evalutation task, the reader can easily find it.
So far, my only criticism of this blog is to do with the format (which can be very unpredictable due to the html coding); The right side of this document pokes out of the actual body of the blog. This however, is only a very minor problem which irritates my personal taste and preference in keeping everythign neat and tidy. In fact, I myself will likely make this mistake without realising so I will be sure to carefully check the final look of my blog posts.
Yet another positive point about this blog is to do with uploading information in different media formats; This post being in the format of a YouTube video. I personally find it very helpful to listen to information, especially conducted by a person rather than a series of slides or pictures as it helps to engage my attention. I personally find this specific video difficult to watch and concentrate on due to the images which pop up over the subject. She also misses eye contact, however, I do understand that this video conveys information, bluntly put, much better than my own do due to my own personal dislike of speaking while being recorded.
My last point will be about the fact that Snow included images of herself (and partner) while they filmed to use as evidence of the filming taking place.
In the screenshot on the left, there is an image of the participating filmers who are shown with the camera set up in the filming location. The image is also labelled with a clear explanation on the left, however, looking at the post title, this image appears to be rather out of place as I personally would have inserted an image of myself and Ed editing (as the title implies) rather than an image of us filming.
Lastly, I wish to include evidence images such as Snow's to show the set up we used and to make it easy to evaluate any difficulties we may have and how Ed and I could possibly overcome them.
In conlusion, this blog is very beautiful, with elements that make it interesting, engaging and interractive to read through. The information seems overwhelming, however, relevant and thus I prefer this blog to Jonathan Hawes's.
Perhaps the only downfall is certain points on the format which is up to personal taste and areas where separate paragraphs would have been useful to make the text seem more organised (as in the picture above) and minor misplacement of images (as in the above).
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