Analysis of Ciaran Davis blog

By Simon Cheshire

Design and Layout

Ciaran Davis blog’s design is very simple but is also very clever, this is because of the colour schemes which are used. The colours of black, grey and white is important as it follows the main conventions of his short film which is a black and white film. Furthermore the font which is used is also very basic however it doesn’t take the effect away from the video and if the internet existed in the 1930’s it would probably looked familiar to this blog.

Furthermore it also flows in the sense that all the research and planning comes first which is then followed by the film posters and advertisement's which is then lastly followed by the short film its self which is important because when you go on to Ciaran’s blog it will show his film first which is the most important.

Use of Media’s

Ciaran’s blog has a wide of use of different media’s which is very important for him to have a successful blog. The constant use of videos is important because it gives the reader of his blog a lot more insight to how and why he made his short film in this particular way. He has a good use of pictures and a caption with each one which helps explains what they are and how important they are to his film.

Furthermore he has also used a good range of other software's and programmes, for example he has used Issuu, Vimeo, Prezi and Celtx all to display many different aspects of his coursework however doing this lead to him making a successful video because of how good his research and planning aspects of his coursework was.

Research and Planning

Research: Overall Ciaran’s research section is very good in the sense that

it is in a lot of detail and would have given him a really good idea about the codes and conventions for a short film and gave him a really good idea of the short film industry. For example his post which researches the film noir target audiences is a video with a huge amount of writing explaining it in more detail. This is important as it would have given him a better understanding about who he should aim his music video at.

Planning: In this section he has gone into great detail explaining what the

script is going to be and how he can constantly improve, furthermore it also has many posts about the camera shots which he is going to be using to make the most effective music video possible.

Construction and Final product Construction: This includes many different videos

showing the film as it continues to be made and when each different scene is filmed it has been uploaded which gives the reader a lot more of a insight into his video and how it was made.

Final Product: This particular posts has the final film

video, the films article, the poster and there is a explanation to them all and what importance they are.

Evaluation

Ciaran's evaluation has been made on the programme InDesign the same way I did last year at AS, this is hugely effective as it displays all the appropriate information in the right way and the use of the pictures in the magazine is again more interesting to read than if it was just plain writing. However I feel to make it even better he could have used more media’s in the evaluation. For example he could have links going off to other web pages which would make it a even more interesting read.