As I reflect back on the Multimedia project, I had a very entertaining and informative topic for my taste, so that made the longer analysis easier to deal with. While I focused mainly on athletics, this project was a reminder of the old adage of thinking before one speaks, or I guess to think before one posts in this case. There was a big element of my opinion present in this assignment, but I felt like I presented a strong argument and then followed it up with good analysis. It was also important to be able to link to what I was referring to because sports is certainly not everyone’s favorite subject in the world, so by incorporating the links any readers can go back and read or skim the stories to familiarize themselves with it. I tried to keep a fair mix of scholarly work as well as entertaining writing. I feel that makes each post easier to read and is more engaging for the reader, as opposed to reading a report.
The negative aspect that sticks out the most is that I got tied up in knots on a few occasions. In the post titled, “The internet catching things on and off the field,” I could not seem to find the correct balance between article and text, or video and text. Even to the point that I felt like I was rambling. If I did not incorporate the correct amount of the readings in my project, it was because I had a difficult time relating it to my project.
As for the project itself, I now realize that the topic was a little too big and I could not possibly cover everything that I wanted to. It was a fun topic to do and that is precisely why I decided to do it, but there were just way too many articles and videos to choose from because social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are still so new and are still at the height of their popularity in the media. I worked very hard on it, and I feel like I deserve a good grade because I think I did the topic justice, but it was a larger undertaking than I bargained for.
