In this evaluation I am going to discuss what we did on our blog, which worked well, and also what we struggled with or could have done better.
The name we chose for the blog ‘Review Tube’ works really well. It sounds good and leaves the blog needing no description as it does exactly what it says in the name. The layout looks good. At the top Fogg made a title banner and we chose colours, which match so it all looks organized and professional. There are features down the right side of the screen, like links and categories, these look really good as they fill up where a lot of white space would be if they were not there, although we thought there were possibly two many categories and it looked a little unorganised. This is something we tidied up a bit. We initially decided to have the video at the top of each post above its review. This has worked well and everyone stuck to this plan.
The style of the writing in each post works well and compliments each writer’s posts. I think we all need to be a bit more careful with typos and grammar, it s important to read through each post several times before publishing. We all used a similar type of humour within our writing, which has worked well and reads easily.
Individually, I need to remember to link within my posts. I tended to link bands to their Myspace page, as this would be familiar for our target group of students and people our own age. I think I could have linked to more relevant videos on you Tube within my posts. I also need to be careful not to repeat myself.
One thing we all struggled with was sourcing videos. There are hundreds of thousands of videos to choose from on You Tube and it’s hard to know where to start looking. Hayley said she found it difficult finding videos she actually found funny and that she could write about. Personally I found it difficult to write about a music video I didn’t like. I did however, make sure all the videos were new, but when searching in the music categories on You Tube none of the popular videos were by artists I felt I could write about. In future I need to be a little more open-minded and not just write about all my favourite bands.
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Good eval - I think your general points about the blog as a whole are good. I think you could have thought a bit more about the categories of video you looked at - perhaps come up with some YouTube-only categories - ie the kind of videos you only find on the site.
I think some sort of larger context about the site, perhaps some general YouTube news might have been good too.
As for your own posts, I think you're right about links in the posts. Also, YouTube is increasingly important for bands and the music business - it would have been good to reflect that in the blog and cover a wider range of bands. Clearly, as a music journalists you need to be passionate about music, but it's a bit of a handicap if you restrict yourself to only covering music you like. You can have a lot of fun slagging off stuff you hate.
Beyond that, it might be interesting to look beyond the standard YouTube demographic and see if music aimed at older audiences is finding its way onto the site.
But overall, a good effort. Well done
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