Diary 17

I have now finished making the improvements needed to my blog. I had set myself a schedule of what I needed to complete and when I needed to complete it by in order to make sure that i got the work done and that I used my time in an efficient way. I have stayed behind after school a lot for the past two weeks in order to make sure that i met the deadline and I am happy with the final product that I have produced. Also, I believe that the changes to my blog were worthwhile and make the blog look a lot accessible and easy to navigate.

Diary 16

In the past couple of days I have been continuing to work on improving the quality of my evaluation responses and trying to raise the standard of detail in my blog posts overall. I have tried to evident the amount of feedback I recieved on my magazine in a number of different ways because I constantly made sure that my product was up to the standards of members of my target audience to ensure that the contents fulfilled their needs as well as making sure that the images and layout appealed to them. I think that the vast amount of constructive feedbaack that I recieved was very helpful in raising my marks from my first draft. Also, looking back to my preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt a lot in the skills I have needed to employ whilst working on my magazine as well as becoming more familiar with softwares such as Premiere, which I will be using constantly through next year. I intend to add a few more posts as well as make my last two evaluation answers more detailed in the next couple of days to show off these skills I've gained even more.

Target Audience Assessment

This video features two members of my target audience in which they discuss what aspects of my magazine most appeal to them as readers. Doing this assessment really helped me to find out what potential readers would see when fidning the magazine on the shelf. After looking at my magazine for a long time whilst working on it, it was refreshing to hear the opinion from a fresh pair of eyes. This feedback was good because it was reassuring to hear members of my actual target audience share the opinions of my peers and I was able to evaluate the effectiveness of the work I have produced.



Diary 15

Recieving Improvements (on my Final Piece)

Once I'd first completed my first draft of my magazine I asked a peer if they would proof read it and give me any other final improvements to ensure that there were no spelling and grammar mistakes along with looking at the small details of the magazine which I may have not looked at properly. This helped me as they were mistakes that I wasn't able to see for myself and improvements from a member of my target audience. This feedback has helped my magazine to look more professional because there are now no spelling mistakes and it forced me to look carefully at every section of my magazine and I was also able to pick up other, bigger improvements from doing this.

These are the images that I took whilst I was receiving my feedback:

Diary 14

In recent weeks I have been working on improving my blog to a higher standard of detail to ensure I can get the most marks possible out of it. I have dont this my adding more detail or description to the posts I had already, adding more posts to sections such as 'Audience' in which I don't have that many, or making sure that any posts I'm adding from no on make varied use of technologies and softwares that I am capable of using. An example of how I plan on doing this is by taking the answers from my evaluation and making each one in to a separate Adobe Premiere presentation. This way I can gather different pieces of media to illustrate my response to the question as well as presenting it in a way that shows off the skills I have gained when learning how to use it and this method or presenting my post is also different and adds variety to my blog.

Audience Feedback For Second Draft

Even though it wasn't required for me to do so, I went about creating a second draft of my magazine in which I had acted upon some of the improvements that I had received on my first draft. I then asked another set of member from my target audience what they thought and i received further feedback for my work. These are some screen shots that I took of the audience feedback that I received on my second draft. Luckily, the feedback I received was very helpful and I have now taken it into consideration and produced my final piece which I believe is now a significant improvement. The next stage of feedback will be to print off my final piece and get someone to proof read it for any mistakes in grammar or punctuation that I may have made. I will then make these final changes before submitting my final piece.

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