Schedule

1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135
Candidate Name: Jack Sharpling
Candidate Number: 2125
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 1st September
Monday 8th September I have started my planning and research.
I have learnt about target audience theory (Hartley, Katz,
Maslow)
Monday 15th September Created my online blog.
I also played around on WordPress where my online blog is on,
and played around to get use to how to edit and change my page.
I have started my audience profile, and I now need to create my
survey/questionnaire. I have finished creating my questionnaire.

2. Monday 22nd September I have been learning to use Photoshop.
I have started my preliminary task; I have put in an appropriate
bar code and social media icons.
Monday 29th September I completed my hand drawn draft.
Monday 6th October I haven added conventions to my preliminary task such as
masthead, barcode, issue number & date and web address.
I have completed the preliminary front cover.
I am now making progress on my masthead font styles.
Monday 13th October I have learnt the conventions that make up a contents page.
I have started my hand drawn draft for my preliminary contents
page. I have started the preliminary contents page task, and I
have placed in guide line for what I want and where.
Monday 20th October I have put in my masthead and contents page title. I have also put
in my sub-headings boxes.
I have almost finished my preliminary contents page. I have also
created my editorial.
Half Term
Monday 3rd November I have started to complete corrections to my preliminary
contents page.
I have included required conventions to my hand drawn drafts.
Monday 10th November I have made corrections to most planning and research tasks, and
I have made one other blog past today.
Monday 17th November I have started my main task and bar cade and masthead are in

3. place. I have included a US$ price on my front cover to show it is
an international magazine too, I have also included a producer
logo within the area the logo is placed.
Monday 24th November I have included a lot of conventions to my main task front cover;
all I need are covering stories, my main story and a main photo.
Monday 1st December In this lesson I have completed the main story and a sub-line of
that main story. I have also changed the font in some conventions
on my front cover to the same font as my masthead to keep brand
recognition. I need to gather a main photo and add some cover
lines before my deadline. I am very close to finishing my front
cover; I just need to add one more cover story and I have finished
my front cover.
Monday 8th December Today I have started my main task contents page. I have put in
guidelines to where I want my conventions. I have also copied
over my signature for my editorial. Lastly I have included my web
address at the corner of the page along with the page number.
Today I have included my masthead onto my contents page, I
have also included my page number and web links at the bottom
of my page.
Monday 15th December I have included sub headings, sub stories and sub lines, haven’t
finished them all.
Christmas Holidays
Monday 5th January I have proof read my editorial, created more sub-stories and I

4. have also started to include my contact details. I am still in the
process of completing my sub lines and sub stories.
Monday 12th January I am in the process of completing my contents page which is very
nearly finished. I came back in my own time to completely finish
my main contents page. All I have to do now is take and collect
images.
Monday 19th January My double page spread task has started. I have now placed my
text for the double page spread making sure I know how I want
my layout to be. I now know how much space I have left to fill out
and I will now use my time to think of ideas on how to fill up
those spaces. I have now learnt how to create a document of
InDesign, and I am using those skills effectively.
Monday 26th January In this lesson I have successfully added a pull quote, I have also
edited to that text looks like it is warping around the pull quote
itself.