WEEK 5: Blog Analysis Key Takeaways

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    I've been looking forward to sharing this post with you all the whole week. This week, my media teacher assigned a blog analysis assignment, and I have a lot of takeaways to communicate.

    The assignment basically involved checking out two blogs of our choice from past students in the course who were successful at the end of the entire project. I decided to view two blogs by two students named Ryan and Riley. Their blogs were visually engaging upon opening, which prompted me to select them over the other options.

    I won't dive into an entire analysis of their blogs in this post because that was basically the entire class assignment, but I will add my full analysis at the end of this post in case anybody wants to read more.

    Ryan and Riley's projects showed me what a final product looks like after staying organized from start to finish. Because I have mostly been focused on the production over anything else, this is something I will now take note of and try to better implement for the rest of my blogs, so I am proud of the final product on an aesthetic level, too.

    Something else I really admired from their projects was the use of true emotions and overall mental processes during the production. Although I try to stay as real as possible during these posts, needless to say, I have been juggling many things these last few weeks as a senior in high school. Covid, college of music applications, you name it. This has prompted me to feel a wave of emotions that I have quite frankly not communicated in my blog, and I think it is a fundamental part of this blog to tell about my experiences beyond just creating a film opening. 

    I will start to apply these new takeaways that I received from analyzing these past blogs. See you guys in the next post!

Here is my full analysis response for the class assignment:

        I reviewed Ryan and Riley’s blogs. I really enjoyed that Ryan’s posts captured the most valuable details of the journey of his project. His blog was very to-the-point and that was the element that kept me hooked and gave an overall appeal to his project. Because he remained so organized throughout the whole production process, it translated very well into his posts and they were structured very clearly. I also liked how genuine his attitude was in his writing. If he ran into a flaw, he would blatantly admit it and talk about it on the blog. Riley’s blog was a pleasant experience because of how much visual and informative content was shared on her posts. Almost every post contained some sort of picture or computer screenshot to help the audience visually interpret every step of the process.

        The most engaging kind of post contained genuine internal thoughts and reflections from the producer on certain steps in the process. I really liked Riley’s post titled “Spring Break coming to an end” because she not only updated us with relevant information regarding the project but she also expresses how these decisions relate and affect her life outside of the project. Ryan also had a great post titled “Inner Struggles”. This post was perhaps the most genuine out of both vlogs because Ryan share some real emotions with us regarding his challenge of acting a role on camera, which was an unfamiliar practice to him. These blogs taught me to remain organized and as clear as possible when writing to my audience. Additionally, although it is important for me to communicate the actual components of the project, it is also important to convey my personal thoughts and emotions during this process.

Signing off,

Santiago Rios