Evaluation of As Blog

Throughout year 12, our group had to carry out a large amount of research. Research that ranged from finding pictures on the internet to studying in detail films and programmes that related to our thriller. This Research would then be added onto the blog. Some of our research was very easy to add to the blog such as pictures and videos. We would download them from google and them move them to the blog. Other pieces of research such as finding out about related films and studying certain thrilling charcters was alot harder to blog. This led the group to the decision that for tricky pieces of research we would write into a small evaluation and post onto the blog. This made it easier for us to record all of our research which meant that the Blog was full of interesting and important information.

Throughout the planning of our thriller we were asked to make a textual analysis on a number of different thrillers. Our chosen thrillers consisted of the films se7en, Casino Royale and Cape Fear. These textual anlysis were key to our group achieving top marks. We knew this straight away because of the detail that was needed in each analysis and how important it was for us to gather an understanding of what a thriller should be and how they should be portrayed. This knowledge that we gathered from the analysis of the films played an important role in the filming of the thriller and helped us create the mood and atmosphere that made our thriller so successful.

One thing we learnt from year 12 and something we have a fair bit of experience in are Storyboards. We understand fully the importance of Storyboards because of how they were a big factor in the success of our thriller. We have just recently finished our stroryboards and being one of the earliest groups to have finished it gave us the time to re-do the storyboards on coloured sugarpaper with exact drawings and a clearer evaluation of each scene. This made the stroyboards more attractive and encouraged us to take a picture and post it on the blog. This gave the blog a splash of colour which made it stand it out compared to the pother blogs that we had previously written.

An important part of making any thriller is finding out your target Audience so you know exactly how you should carry out your advertising campaign. The target audience for our thriller was at first very tricky to make a decision. This was due to the fact that thriller's are often very clever films which are aimed to thrill the watcher. For this reason we were sure that are target Audience was eighteen years and above until our teacher at the time opened our eyes to the fact that all the characters in the film were under eighteen, meaning that this would attract other people under the age of eighteen to watch the film.

When it came to the layout of the blog, our group had a good understanding of how different media forms such as powerpoints, videos, pictures etc were the key way of gaining marks when it came to presentation. We used a huge variety of these different media forms in the blog not just for presentation purposes but also because of how it makes it more interesting for people to read. Pages and pages of text would of made the blog not just boring and tedious for the reader but also for us, the different powerpoints and videos we created made the whole experience alot more fun.

The organistaion of our blog was also very important when it came to achieving the higher grades. This was because of how the blogs had to fit into a certain order so the examiner would find it easier to track our progress throughout our time in Year 12. This made it possible for the examiner not just to mark our work, but also to mark us on how well we improved throughout the year. The technique that we used to make sure the blogs were in the right order was very simple, we kept track of the dates that we finished our blogs and then added them to the blog so that they kept a very precise and correct order. This also made the clarity and structure of the Blog very successful. It made the blog very easy to understand and also made it more interesting for the reader because all the blogs linked together. This made it very similar to a book in some ways because of how it made the reader want to read on.

All the credit for the balance of the blog goes to our teacher at the time, Mr Sheriff. He gave us a set of clear guidelines to make sure that we constantly mixed the blog up. An example of this is, when you look at our blog, it is very rare to see two of the same media forms one after the other. This was because of how Mr Sheriff drilled it into us that by using too much of one media form, for instance using only powerpoints to conduct our work, was a certain way of showing the examiner that we had little knowledge of the different media forms that could have been used throughout the blog.

You can probably tell from the way I have described our Blog, we were very happy with the way it went and the work that each member of the group put towards it. We stuck to the strict guidelines set by our teacher adding at times glints of our own humour and personalities making the blog a little bit lighter. Although the Blog was successful, there are still parts of it that could have been improved. We aimed to achieve the highest amount of Blogs compared to all the other groups in our class but we failed to do that because of how we lost our rythm towards the middle of the year. This is something that needs to be improved so our new blog that we are making this year can be even better than the one created last year