1. A2 Media Studies Daniel Morris
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK(Including Possible
Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)
September 2012
(Detailed Monthly Summary)
I have been doing some very basic planning of my entire project,
looking at the general ethos and conventions of the type of
newspaper I would like to create. After looking at some local
British newspaper conventions, I have seen that they are very
patriarchal, showing very strong feelings about kindness and good
will in a community – sometimes acting violently/in a mean fashion
towards those who affect the local community in a negative way.
After deciding on the general idea of what my
Newspaper will be about – A good-willed patriarchal
local British newspaper – I shall research more into the
conventions of this type of paper. Looking at the sort of
stories involved as Main articles.
October 2012
(Detailed Monthly Summary)
I have created a slightly more thorough idea of what I shall be
using in my Newspaper. After doing some research I have found
that key areas of the most popular news articles revolve around
these issues: Political, Environmental, Scandals and
Violence/Death.
I have therefore commenced researching for my Ancillary 1 project
– The Billboard. I have decided that I shall be using a political
themed billboard surrounding what’s best for the British
community. I have looked at and documented some billboard
examples from some of the larger British newspapers.
Unfortunately I could not find any good billboard examples from
local newspapers so that it would suit what I was going to create.
However they were very useful for general design ideas.
I shall commence the actual creation of my billboard.
After some fairly brief planning I have a general Idea on
what I would like to create - Sticking with the political
theme.
November 2012
(Detailed Monthly Summary)
I have completed the first draft my billboard, using inspiration
from my billboard design research + choosing a political theme. It
contains the main political party figures in power at the present
time, with the slogan “Your Country, Your Future. Act Now” I feel
that this brings across the message that I want to send out.
I will touch up and make any amendments to my
billboard.
I shall also complete my analysis of Billboards, analysing
the designs I have previously found.
December 2012
(Detailed Monthly Summary)
I have fully completed my billboard, with a different background
and the new slogan – “Don’t let your country fall into the hands of
others. Act Now.” My Billboard analysis is now complete and
ready to be uploaded to my blog.
I shall finish off any work left over from my Ancillary 1
project.
I will be moving on to my Ancillary 2 research.

2. A2 Media Studies Daniel Morris
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
Mon W/B 07/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have commenced researching Radio Advertisements for my
Ancillary 2 project. I have listened to multiple radio advertisements
and wrote about the history of Radio and its relevance to modern
advertisement. I have also begun to analyse 3 radio adverts, I have
already wrote a fairly brief analysis for one of the three.
I shall complete my analysis on radio advertisements.
I shall plan my Advertisement.
Mon W/B 14/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have completed my analysis of 3 advertisements – This helped me
plan the structure of my radio advert.
I have begun planning my radio advert, mainly focusing on what
type of advert it will be. I have decided that it will be formal, and
include a way for my newspaper to be practical and helpful to the
subject in the advertisement.
I will continue to plan my Radio Advertisements and
hopefully write some potential scripts.
Mon W/B 21/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I was not able to continue with my Ancillary 2 as I had to complete
some other work this week. I have created questionnaires for
research about the Newspaper that I will be creating. Then I have
distributed my questionnaires and now I have them back
completed.
I will put the data obtained from the questionnaire into
a table. Then I shall create a few different methods of
showing the results of my questionnaires, probably
charts or graphs.
Mon W/B 28/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have completed a Word document featuring Graphs, Charts, and
a short summary of the results and what I plan to do with them.
I have based many decisions about what I will be doing with my
Newspaper off these results, such as the name of the paper and
what kind of stories should be involved.
I will be researching and analysing Front page covers of
magazines in order to become better prepared for the
creation of my newspaper.
Mon W/B 04/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have been looking at many different newspaper front covers from
all across England to see what they look like. I have acquired a fair
bit of inspiration and I have a few ideas of what I can do with my
Front Cover. I have begun to analyse one of the front covers I have
found in order to gain a better understanding of how it is
composed.
I plan to complete 3 analyses of newspaper front covers
that I have found.
Mon W/B 11/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have now completed all 3 of my analyses and I am ready to
upload them to the blog.
I will re-visit and start working on my Ancillary 2 Radio
Advertisement Project.

3. A2 Media Studies Daniel Morris
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
Mon W/B 18/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have been working on my Ancillary 2 project, writing the scripts I
am going to use. Personally I have not enjoyed this, creating
something that is purposely cheesy and to sound cheap in order to
catch the audience’s ear isn’t something I find very fun. However I
feel that the script that I have wrote does fit the codes and
conventions of radio advertisements therefore I am happy with
what has been created.
Next week I will need to find an actor or two in order to
record my radio advertisement, hopefully this shouldn’t
take too long and I can commence with editing the
advertisement.
Mon W/B 25/02/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have found an actress in order to record the advert; both herself
and I recorded it within 10 minutes, which left plenty of time for
me to use the program ‘Reaper’ to edit what we had recorded. I
was given a fairly large amount of copyright-free music and jingles
from the college media lab. This enabled me to instantly start work
on the project.
Complete what I have already worked on and prepare it
to be uploaded to my blog, hopefully this shouldn’t take
too long so I should be able to start work on my main
project. (Newspaper)
Mon W/B 04/03/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have finished my Ancillary 2 Radio Advert on Reaper and
exported it as a Waveform Audio File Format (.wav) so that it can
be played easily and uploaded onto my blog when I am ready to
put it on with the rest of my Ancillary 2 work. I have begun
designing very basic outlines for my Newspaper; so far I have
completed two designs for my Front Page using Photoshop.
I shall complete three designs for both my Front Page
and Page 2 of my newspaper on Photoshop. If I can I
shall then pick one design from each to carry through
for my main project.
Mon W/B 11/03/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have completed all of my designs for both my Front Page and
Page 2, for each design I have exported it as a JPEG image so that it
can be viewed easily on any computer and so it is ready to be
uploaded to my blog. I have also completed the design for my
Masthead, ready for use when I start work on the project.
I have chosen my favourite designs, copied them into appropriate
working folders ready for next week.
I shall commence work on my chosen designs, hopefully
to create a more advanced template for both designs.
I shall also start work on writing the content for my
newspaper, eg: the main articles, competitions,
freebies, contents etc
Mon W/B 18/03/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have been writing all of the stories that I will be using for both my
Front Page and my Page 2 of the newspaper. I have tried to include
a variety of subjects to centre the stories around, eg Environment,
Government/Police scandals, Local attacks etc
I have also worked on my initial templates so that they should be
ready for content to be inserted into them.
I will need images to go with my articles + general
content. So I will have to go out with a good quality
camera and take some fairly professional/formal-
looking photographs for use.
I will then try to insert both my stories and images into
my templates to create a basic first draft.

4. A2 Media Studies Daniel Morris
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
Mon W/B 01/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have entered all of my stories into the newspaper pages,
including their Titles and borders/underlines. I have set a
consistent font and font size, also making sure the text paragraphs
are equally aligned to the rest of the page. – I have done this using
Photoshop’s text justification features and by drawing guidelines. I
have inserted a couple of main images for the articles, but I still
need more in order to make the newspaper a little more
entertaining to read. So far I have a very basic first draft which will
need a lot of work doing to it in order for it to meet my
expectations.
I must take some more pictures to go with my
competitions/freebies sections.
The pages need to be organised in a more appealing and
logical manner, I feel that it is in a bit of a mess at the
moment so I will be reconsidering some major parts of
the design.
Mon W/B 08/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
I have inserted, re-arranged and re-wrote some stories when
adding in advertisements and generally trying to organise the
pages in a logical manner. I have been inserting images that I have
taken the week before, using light coloured backgrounds and
borders in order to make them stand out + look more professional.
I need to make the pages look more like an actual
newspaper like I have seen during my research, I feel
that it looks simply too “cartoony” at the moment. I
think there is too much open space between articles,
which is an issue I plan to address.
Mon W/B 15/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
After realisation that my font sizes were simply too large to be
considered a standard newspaper size, I had to write nearly double
the amount of text to make the stories involved fit the newspaper
pages well.
I have inserted multiple red and black lines in order to add
sufficient borders to the Pages; I feel it was necessary to break up
the page well like other newspaper examples have done.
I shall touch up and work on anything that I have missed
out on over the next few days.
I shall also be completing my Evaluation, which will be
uploaded onto my blog possibly via a glorified
powerpoint by using the Prezi software.
PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible
Contingency Plans)