Preliminary Task

How I personalised my blog

When personalising my blog, I firstly selected a design for the background. There were various background images to choose from, some that included animals or food etc. After selecting my design, I then went on to choose the template of my blog; this didn't take long as the process was easy to use. When choosing the background, it gave you an idea of how everything works, as you were able to fiddle around with different buttons.
I found my first blog and my first design easy to do as I found that blogger.com was really simple and easy to use, and also very pratical.
It is extremely easy to quickly post something that you have researched or discovered, and is very easy to also post things like pictures and video's.

Induction task (www)

Overall I think that my most successful induction task was the 'donnie darko' filming. I found this to be most successful as this filming process had the best use of lighting and a variety of shots that included; point of view shots, over the shoulder shots and high angle shots. Something that was demonstrated was the variation of the rule of thirds, allowing our scenes to higlight the importance of some detailed filming. Also, when editing our video, all our scenes flowed, therefore it didn't seem as though our scenes had just been thrown together, but blended well and precisely.
Moreover, the process of the filming was more fun, as more people were able to get involved with the filming aswell as the directing. This enabled us a group to work better as we were able to support eachother and advise one another when carryingout this task. Everyone also felt comfortable around one another, and didn't lack confidence when expressing our views or idea's.

Induction task (EBI)

I personally think that my least successful task was the t.v advert filming. I think that my group found it difficult working together and really didn't help eachother to develop our skills very well. Although we completed our task, I don't believe that it was to the best of any of our abilities, even though we used many different filming angles and media filming techniques (such as the 30'C rule and the rule of thirds). When viewing our film my group found that we didn't edit our video very well, and that a lot of it was chopping and the shots cut at the wrong time. However, overall it was not a total disaster, as we did have great idea's to develop, I think it was purely down to the fact that none of us knew eachother very well, and therefore lacked confidence when putting forward our idea's.