2. HOW WAS THIS PERSON
SUCCESSFUL?
The blog that really caught my eye was Alfie Greens blog due to it being
very modern, mature and fun to look at, at the same time. I also feel that
he has taken time in choosing the design and layout for the blog, clearly
taking time to explore Blogger and make it appealing to look at.
I feel the blog I looked at was extremely successful due to the use of
different medias to present different aspects in their work, for example this
person used video, voice, and different media’s to make the blog more
interesting to read and so the viewer does not have to do constant reading.
It also makes the blog look more appealing and professional due to the
amount of skills presented to the examiner.
This person
has used
Sound Cloud to
record his
voice other
than
presenting this
task in writing
He has used
Prezi instead
of
embedding a
PowerPoint to
vary his blog.
Also making
the Prezi
brightly
3. INDIVIDUALITY
Alfie green has made a banner to make his blog more personal to
him, conveying he has taken the time and effort to make his blog
look appealing to the eye and present him as having an eye for
design. This being the first thing the viewer of his blog sees, he has
purposely made it eye catching to the viewer, including his own
photography to convey his skills further, and also the actual skill of
working the programme to make the banner. The banner also follows
his housing style of the whole blog to make it more professional
appearing and neat. Furthermore, you can see that Alfie has put
unique tabs below the banner rather than labels to be unique and
stand out, adding to the point of showing of his skills to the
examiner.
4. LABELS
Alfie has included labels to divide his work and work as if it was a
contents page, including links to different pages and posts. This is
very accessible to viewers and readers due to them finding pages
easier and knowing what category each post falls under.
5. RESEARCH LABEL
You can tell that Alfie takes interest around the
subject in his research label due to his creative post
of actually going into Whsmith to view magazines and
see what they look like inside. By doing this he is
proving that he wants to do well with the making of
his magazine, like I would like to accomplish with my
blog. It was not compulsory or asked by anyone to do
this in his blog which also conveys that he is
dedicated to the subject which is what I hope to
convey within my blog.
Alfie has presented screenshots of his Survey task to
give a visual interpretation to the reader of what the
Survey looked like and what questions where included
within the survey. By setting tasks out like this, it
shows that it is appealing to the eye and enjoyable to
read.
6. Alfie Green has included different kinds of social media. Twitter being
one of them, he has dedicated a twitter account to Media to convey
different kinds of branding to audiences. This is extremely unique
and creative due to taking the time outside of class to produce this.
Again, it really emphasizes the fact that he is passionate about the
subject and is interested in developing new ideas in which I would
also like to prove within my blog. And posts.
7. PRODUCTION LOGS LABEL
In the high majority of Alfie’s production logs he constantly includes
pictures with in them to give a visual image of what he has done in
class that day. This makes the logs look less intimidating and easier
to read and understand. The screenshots include the details of what
programme he has been using in that lesson. Also, scrolling down,
you can tell that Alfie takes a lot of time on his logs, due to them
being very long and detailed to make it clear to the reader exactly
what he has been doing through text which I hope to achieve. He has
dated his production logs so it gives viewers an idea of when it was
handed in etc.
However, in Alfie’s production logs he has not used a range of media,
e.g. voice/video. He has only used text. I hope to use various
amounts of media in my production logs to give further individuality
and to convey more skills used.
8. PRELIMINARY TASK LABEL
On this section of Alfie’s blog he has kept it simple and tidy by only
including the actual final task and the evaluation. I have noticed that
he has not completed any planning in this section such as the process
it took, fonts, pictures etc. whereas I would include all of this so
viewers get an insight of exactly how I completed it and what steps
had been taken to get to the finished product.
However, Alfie has included dates that it was posted and descriptions
of each post and why they have posted it on their blog which I would
like to achieve.
9. PLANNING LABEL
On the planning label, Alfie has included a lot of detail and each
process he had taken to complete the final product. This thorough
page conveys every last bit of planning detail to clearly convey to the
viewer the steps he has been through. For example Alfie has
produced a contact sheet with the pictures from his photo-shoot
included to convey the process taken to produce the most important
aspect of the magazine which are photo’s, I will definitely do this to
show of my photography skills and convey professional photos. Also,
Alfie has been creative yet again by photo shopping his logo on to a
bus stop sign to convey what promotional methods he is hoping to
use in a visual way. I hope to use this kind of creativity with in my
Planning section to insure my blog is unique. Alfie’s mood board is
also very creative due to having a modern, artistic, professional
layout to it with unique pictures. He has also circled the images that
he likes the most to convey the most important bits and show the
most important bits of inspiration included.
10. EVALUATION LABEL
Alfie has presented his magazine in another form of media to make
his magazine look presentable. As you can see, his layout of the
magazine matches the title of the finished product and housing style
due to Alfie keeping this unique aspect throughout this blog to stand
out. I think that this is an extremely clever way of laying out the blog
due to it reflecting on your own work and your own skills.
Also, you can tell the all Alfie's planning is relevant with the
Evaluation label due to it all coming together and making sense to the
viewer.
11. CONCLUSION
To conclude, I believe that Alfie Green’s blog is a perfect example of
what a successful blog should look like, due to the individual housing
style and also the fact that it conveys that he takes great interest in
and around the subject. He has also included his own ideas such as
using social media to convey ideas.
I think that this blog will inspire me, and reflect on how I present my
work to the examiner and viewers.
