As blog evaluation

The blog was organised well; the posts were in a chronological and easy to follow order which makes it clear for the examiner to read and find particular posts if necessary. The thriller poster was at the top, headlining the page which was also a home screen and the background fit with the final product; it was the starting point of the thriller, the bricks being the abandoned/bombed building; all in black and white for a mysterious effect. The layout was clear and the colours worked well together; the font being easy to read. Each post was detailed and reviewed by all members of the group in case we had more to add, subtract or correct. All the evaluations were different and lengthy.

The entire group was media rich with posts ranging from text, videos, PowerPoint presentations, Sound Cloud (voice notes) and Prezi's; this year in A2 we aim to use all of these again and many more, such as Go Animate and Wordle.

Some of the problems were self-discipline and lack of communication. The amount of blog posts assigned to each individual was dis-proportionate and due to lack of a motivation from some it left more blog posts to be completed by a single person. This is something our new A2 blog has already tackled with posts assigned to each member and they are checked if they're up to date with their posts.

We could improve the depth of our analysis; as while we thought that last year the analysis were okay we want to show that we can really analyse at a higher standard to show the examiner we know what we’re talking about. Along with this we would like to increase how media rich we are as a group; less textual blog posts allowing the group to be creative and enticing. This year we would like connect more with our audience making more use of social media sites such as twitter and Facebook.

There were a lot of complications with filming where we couldn’t organise a day or time to film, we were getting close to the deadline set to finish filming. With no progress, it was taken upon one member to say one day to be there and do all the filming, starting from scratch as there were new actors. A member was left out but it was a necessary decision and we were back on track. The editing was a smooth process except for a couple of videos “breaking” and needing to be uploaded and synced again into the correct format. This made the process longer but in the end it turned out alright apart from a small uploading error which added an unnecessary glitch/pause in the video.