Blogging and Research

Before staring this course I had never previously used WordPress to create a blog. However, due to the simple layout of the dashboard, I quickly learnt how to do upload multiple different materials to help with research and planning.

One of the key things I needed to learn to do was how to upload YouTube clips onto my blog. This was important as that was where we would access our preliminary and final task once they were finished, as well as clips to help with my research I quickly learnt how to use embed plus to insert a YouTube clip, at the right size, into my blog.

The other key feature of WordPress that I used was custom fields. It was important to use the field ‘iframe’, so that I could upload the Prezi’s, PosterMyWall’s and PowerPoints etc. to my blog, to help with the creative presentation of my research.

WordPress

Research Sites IMDb: I had already used IMDb before, so I was

also familiar with how to find out general information. I often used this site to find out specific information about a film for my research, such as what age rating it is, or what its budget was.

YouTube: I used YouTube to find clips of films, or their opening sequences. Since I had used this site before, it made navigating the site and finding the specific videos or clips that I wanted much easier.

Box Office Mojo: This was a site that I found out about when collecting my research. I used it extensively when researching distributors, as it allowed me to easily find out a films distributor and what other films they have distributed. I felt it was more simple to find out this information on this site than IMDb