Keeping a Production Log with Blogger
In Media Studies, production logs are a vital part of coursework.
This is because when you come to write your analysis of the production, you’ll want to refer back to what you’ve been up to. Thinks like why you’ve made choices and when you’ve done them are important at this stage, and analysing them properly can earn your important marks.
Most of the time this kind of log is kept on paper, usually in an A4 folder. It’s simple enough to just write down what you’ve been up to and just refer back to your notes.
But if you’re a Media Studies student, why not make use of all of the high tech media tools available to you?
Blogs, Blogging, Blogger
Blogger is one such tool. It enables you to write formatted posts (with bullet points, bold text, etc.) and keep track of them all very easily. It’s free, too.
New posts you make to your blog are added on top of all of the rest, and so you can look back over these posts with ease. They can be accessed by month, week or even by day in the form of archive pages, which can be a lot of help.
Although most blogs are diaries or journals of some sort, yours doesn’t have to be, and there are no rules starting that it should. You don’t even have to make it public.
However, if you do choose to accept the possibility of people taking a look at what you’ve written (perhaps these could be teachers or classmates who have accessed the blog directly by typing in the URL, which might be something like mscw.blogspot.com), you’ll have one great extra feature at your disposal. Search.
The search is powered by Google. With this great feature you’ll be able to search only your log for specific keywords. This can be of great use when it comes to analysing your production later on.
So there you have it. Blogs, blogging and Blogger can be rather helpful when it comes to Media Studies productions. A great tool, but be sure to be careful how you use it, and inform your teacher, too. They might know about some kind of rule about publishing your work.