Skills Audit

As I do every Saturday, today I was reflecting on my past blogging for my AS practical work, I was thinking about how far I've come and what a great blog post it would make. So.

As far as research goes, I have improved a lot on my AS skills. Looking at my old blog I had quite a few posts of just written text without any relevant use of ICT. I have improved on this by now adding a relevant use of ICT which illustrates my understanding of the chosen topic. I have also used a more varied selection such as TimeToast, GIFs, MP3s, Youtube, Vimeo etc. This has partly been possible as I learnt more about HTML coding so I was able to learn how to put certain things on the blog, which weren't necessarily designed for it, which I would not have known how to do before.

An example of the relevant use of ICT I now illustrate all my blogs with.

Something I've improved on by going to workshop and generally researching thoroughly into the theories and skills we have been learning this year is making blog posts relevant and full of more detail. I found that some of my blog posts last year seemed to be just there to check off a post on the checklist and hadn't actually been properly researched and seemed to just be gibberish with a few key words and pictures of charts. I avoided this by making sure I fully understood each topic before blogging about it which makes for more substantial and hopefully interesting blogs.

Another blog post I tried at AS was, when writing posts if I had only written three short paragraphs and didn't have anything else to say, I would start a new paragraph and just make things up with key words like synergy, cross media integration, title sequence, final cut pro, thriller, the step father, soundtrack pro, tripod, camera, settings, mise en scene, doc martin, sound, audiences, iconography, vertical integration, intertextuality, editing, 180 degree rule, rule of thirds, fig rig, prelim, group work, pitch, health and safety.

This is the kind of cheap trick I would never try at A2 as it is a waste of everyone's time, carries no marks and will not actually make the post any better.

Here's to quality A2 blogging: