Jon Villacci completed a foundation portfolio in media studies at St. Andrew's Catholic School. Over the course of several months, Jon researched magazines, developed mood boards and mind maps, conducted photo shoots, and created preliminary front covers and contents pages. Jon's schedule shows progress designing magazine pages for a main task, including a front cover incorporating conventions like barcodes and a masthead, and a contents page with images and sublines.
1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135
Candidate Name: Jon Villacci
Candidate Number: 1248
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 31st of august
Monday 8th September Researching Q magazine- started researching my chosen
magazine and completing powerpoint (preliminary task and
planning and research)
Started completing my audience profile, I have started to
consider my target audience and magazine genre.
Monday 13th September I have completed my mood board and mind map for my magazine
inspiration,I am currently working on analyzing the contents
page and the double page spread of my chosen magazine.
2. Monday 21st September This lesson I hve been currentley completing mast head ideas
and my magazine flat plan.
Monday 28th September Completed my photo shoot and location recce now I just need to
complete my production plan.
Monday 5th October Working on completing primary reaserch and hand drawn drafts.
I am also currently working on my preliminary task
Monday 12th October In todays lesson I have been creating my pre – liminary front
cover task, I need to gather the main image for the front cover
next.
Monday 29th October My preliminary front cover is now completed and I have gained
the basics around conventions of a front cover magazine ready
for my main task.
Half Term
Monday 2nd November In todays lesson I have been working on my contents page and
trying to add in as many conventions as I can.
Monday 9th November I am getting very close to finishing my pre liminary contents page
for Thursday the 12th. So far I have completed my editorial added
masthead and contents I just need to add in pictures and improve
on smaller details.
Monday 17th November My Contents page had to be completed in my own time as I ran
out of time in the lesson, the page is now complete and
preliminary pages are all completed. I am now ready to srat
designing my main task magazine pages.
3. Monday 24th November I am starting to work on my main task front cover page and have
already gathered the potentioal front cover images however just
need to finalize my image.
Monday 1st December My front cover page is coming together, mst of my conventions
such as barcode area and mast head have been designed and
placed into the right section of my main task front cover page.
Monday 8th December Front cover is now completed and I am working on designing my
contents page.
Monday 15th December Page layed out correctly, sublines added just need to make sure
there are enough images on the page.
Christmas Holidays