Student analysis (Sarah McAllister)

Organization of Blog/ Production diaries• Sarah McAllister kept her work organised and on one screen. Her first

diary consisted of only 200-300 words however it was detailed to the point where you could imagine her in her lesson herself. She didn’t portray her work in a video diary, however kept it simple with many paragraphs, the detail and amount of writing in each video diary increasing consecutively until it reached roughly around 900+ words.

Research posts• Sarah McAllister kept all her work organised and detailed in various

posts consisting of power points. She kept various detailed paragraphs about what she did and about the research that she collected, including how long it took her to do the work and what she did to put it together. This proved quite effective as she had a written explanation and then also had a visual portrayal of what she did.

Planning Posts• With Sarah McAllister's Planning Post, her first subcategory was that

of Her music magazine proposal. She wrote this and had it roughly consist of 700+ words, giving us a good detailed explanation of what she must do. Her next sub-category was her costume and props, including a rendered image of a grey dress that he model would’ve worn during their photo-shoot. This gave us a visual representation of what the dress would’ve looked like along with a written version. Her next post included of a picture of what her magazine roughly would’ve looked like, alone with a written interpretation of it. From then on during the rest of her sub-categories, she included various pictures and written pieces of work.

Drafting Posts• With Her drafting posts, Sarah McAllister first included several

pictures of her models, giving us an idea of what her magazine would’ve looked like first of all. From then on, she included a written descriptionof what she had to do during said photo-shoot. Her next sub-category of planning was her article sketches, where she showed us pictures of her sketch and then what he magazine would’ve looked like at the end of the production. After that she gave u s a PowerPoint presentation of a rough Magazine draft of what it’d look like.

Final Magazine• Her final product consists of 11 pages. During all of these pages there

are various different pictures of models, along with written descriptions and short paragraphs entailing what the magazine is about. She kept her opening page quite plain and blank,. Before introducing the reader to a vast quality of description and colour. Her magazine was based more of a music band theme, something that more of a band or a woman going on tour, and focused an entire magazine on her.

Evaluation• Sarah McAllister’s Evaluation consisted of 7 different questions, along

with an audience feedback. She answered her first question with an unknown image(Deleted because the connection was reset – out of date) however proceeded to answer her question in several long detailed paragraphs.