Dear Moderator,

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blogs, I hope you like them! My group blog is linked to my individual blog, you will find the group blog link on the right. There is also a link to the blogs for the other students in my group and a link back to the Latymer Teachers central blog, called ‘Main Blog’ in my useful links section on the right. This has links to all the student and group blogs.

On my individual blog, you will find my individual research and initial ideas and planning, mainly from the early stages of the project before I got together with my group. You will also find my reflections on the development of the project as it progressed and the answers to the evaluation questions, which are in the form of video discussions we completed as a group. These have been posted to the group blog in their entirety as well.

On my group blog, you will find evidence of my group’s planning and project development work, and any research we did together that influenced and inspired our project.

My group chose to produce an album cover and a MySpace website homepage as a well as a music video – these are all linked to both of my blogs.

I hope you find it easy to navigate my blogs. Everything is organised in date order from the start of the project in June 2009 until we finished in December 2009. I have used labels to identify all the research, planning and evaluation work I have completed on my individual blog. On the group blog, we have used the same system and any posts that I contributed to, or were individually responsible for, are labelled with my name.

Thanks for your time,

Benjamin Tucker - 5845

THIS BLOG IS CLOSED

After a rollicking thrill ride of a blogging experience, in which I spent blood, sweat and tears, I'm sad to say this blog will now be closed. I hope you enjoy the Benjamin Tucker blogging experience.

Farewell!

Evaluation Question 4

This is a collection of my best contributions to Question 4. I feel I did fairly well in answering this question, and despite it being quite short also, I think we exhausted everything we had to say.

The full evaluation footage is found on the group blog.


Here are some photos of us with all the technology we used in the course of the project

Evaluation Question 3

This is a video of our answer to Question 3, in comparison to the other questions, we said little, and such to put up a video of my contributions would be silly, so here it is in its entirity. I definitely think we could have answered the question in much more depth, and gone into issues such as how our demographics split more thoroughly, and how we aimed to appeal to all our various target audiences.

Here are some pictures of our audience screening.

Evaluation Question 2

This is a collection of my best contributions to Question 2. I feel this question was my best, and I took command of the discussion here. However I feel we possibly went into way too much detail and could have condensed what we had to say considerably.

Evaluation Question 1

This is a collection of my best contributions to Question 1. I feel with this question, I was a little nervous, and this showed in parts, I could have said a little more but I think I answered the question quite well in the end.

Final Album Cover

Our Album Cover is complete, click to enlarge

Final MySpace

Our final MySpace is live, click to visit!

Evaluation Reflections

Having now completed our recorded evaluation, I am pleased with how it went, and it was a lot less daunting than I imagined it would be. It was fresh and exciting using new technologies in evaluating, and it made the whole process a lot easier.

I feel I contributed to the discussion quite well, although I started quite shakily, I found myself getting more into the rhythm of things as time went on. I felt I could have contributed more at the start and possibly gone into more detail on a lot of subjects. I also think it was difficult not to just sit back and at times we would all talk over each other or dominate on certain points.

All in all, its very relieving to have another stage of the project done :)

Evaluation Question 1, 3 and 4 Notes

Here are some scans of notes we used as cues, to help us remember the key things we had to say in our evaluation, they proved useful, however, we sometimes got mixed up on points, or did them in a more freeform order, but I feel this didn't harm our evaluation too much.