Level 4 Blog for Planning and Research

http://www.a2coalition.blogspot.co.uk/

This is a high quality blog in almost every regard.

Something about the content of the blog:

Note the frequent use of visual references both still and moving; screen grabs, audio references, links to other clips, related webpages etc. All of these posted with a comment which identifies (and where appropriate analyses) their relevance and relation to the group's media product.

Something about the layout of the blog:

Note how, down the right hand side of the page there is the BLOG ARCHIVE, which list all posts by date of entry, month-by-month.

Once you click on the respective month another menu drops down listing individual posts.
If you have given a post a title then it is clearly displayed here.
YOU MUST GIVE YOUR POSTS A TITLE because this provides much easier navigation for the viewer (me and the moderator).

If you want to make it super user friendly then use the LABEL function just below the post window (where you write your entries).

Give each post one of the following labels:

PRELIMINARY TASK
PLANNING
RESEARCH
CONSTRUCTION (when you're making it)
EVALUATION (to be covered by the answering of 7 specific questions - 4 for A2)

Dating your posts:
What you don't want is to have 40 posts all made in the last two weeks of April. You can do this but it won't look good - after all, you don't RESEARCH and PLAN after you've made the film. However, help is at hand. Using "post options" located just below "labels" you can reset the dates on your posts. Doing so will at least make it look, like you've been organised and followed a process to get to your finished product.