Looking at a past blog and seeing what was successful/what i can learn from it

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. • 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.

5. • 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.