Yunus Kasim completed their Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies coursework over several months. They researched music magazines, developed a name and logo for their magazine "Swizstar", and created pages including the front cover, contents page, and double-page spread featuring an interview. Yunus refined their work and added details like images, editors letters, and social media links. They also created an evaluation blog to analyze their magazine pages and research the publisher of their inspiration magazine "Vibe".

1. St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770
Candidate Name: Yunus Kasim
Candidate Number: 6570
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays During the summer, I had a look at a range of music magazines, and
analysed different aspects of each page.
Monday 8th September Monday: I started my logbook researching Q magazine and thought of
an idea for my magazine.
Monday 15th September Learnt about a range of shot types. I decided to analyse ‘Vibe’
magazine by looking at codes and conventions.
Monday 22rd September On this day I learnt about different theories. I concentrated on two
theories that were: Maslow, Katz and Hartley’s seven subjectivities.
Once this was done we looked at an audience profile sheet about our
preferable music magazine.

2. Monday 29th September We looked at many aspects that would make my school magazine look
as eye catching as possible. I had to think of a name that will suit the
target audience, so I decided to pick ‘Swizstar’ for my masthead. I then
started by drawing a draft for my preliminary task.
Monday 6th October I then opened Photoshop and started making my front cover of my
magazine. I added many conventions such as the colour scheme,
masthead (Swizstar) and social networking (Facebook and Twitter).
Monday 13th October I carried on improving on the front cover.
Monday 20st October This was deadline day and I had to make sure that my front cover was
completed with all the codes and conventions I wanted to include.
Half Term
Monday 3th November This lesson we learnt about the exam.
Monday 10th November Monday: I made a hand drawn draft for my preliminary contents
page. I looked at a magazine to see what was needed for a contents
page. Once this was completed I started to create my contents page on
Photoshop.
Monday 17th November This was a continuation on last Monday and I was starting to add
conventions such as the sub heading, competition and the categories.
There were still some imperfections that needed some work, so I
decided to go during lunchtime.
Monday 24th November At this stage I wrote an editors letter for my contents page and added
an image of myself to make it look more professional. I still had to
tweak some aspects of my preliminary task, and so I will be making

3. sure that during my free period I resolve the situation.
Monday 1nd December On Monday we moved on to the main task, the music magazine. Before
I went on to Photoshop, I made a spider diagram on names for my
music magazine. However, I decided to stick to the name ‘Swizstar’ as
I felt the name was really good and suited a music magazine. I then
looked at a range of fonts, and found a font that was suitable. So, at
this stage I was prepared to start off my front page.
Monday 8th December I went on to Photoshop and started off my front cover. I was able to
complete a good amount of work, by finishing off the colour scheme
(black and red) as well as conventions such as the masthead, social
networks and strapline for my final music magazine. At this point, I
had to decide on a logo as well as some cover lines for my front cover.
Furthermore, I added more conventions such as the puff
(competition) and an image.
Monday 15th December I started on the contents page for my music magazine. Before I went
on to Photoshop, I made a hand drawn draft by looking at my music
magazine of inspiration. Once I completed this I opened Photoshop
and started creating my contents page. I added codes simplistic codes
such as my logo and page numbers. I then added headings to make it
look as organised as possible.
Christmas Holidays
Monday 5th January I carried on with my contents page. By making progressions on the
editors letter as well as adding content on each column.

4. I had to use the ‘Pen Tool’ to create the editors letter in which I found
very difficult at first, however I became much better as time went by.
Moreover, I told one of my peers to take a photo of me and I encoded it
into my contents page, and also I added my own signature. I continued
on my contents page during lunch by making sure that my cover lines
were laid out correctly. Also, I added an image of my role model on to
the contents page.
Monday 12th January I made all the necessary corrections for my contents page. I then went
straight on to my double page spread, by drawing a sketch of what I
wanted it to look like. I cropped and inserted the main image of my
model into the DPS. I then used the guidelines to help me structure the
pages.
Monday 19th January Additionally, I added more factors such as the interview of my story
that took most of my double lesson. So, I decided to come back during
lunch and keep my DPS up to date.
Monday 9th February I finally completed my double page spread, and so I started to create
my blog. I did this by writing out the brief and added my logbook by
using Slideshare.
Monday 16th February Monday: I had to finish my evaluation pages by analyzing the
different pages that is from the front page to the DPS.
Monday 23 February At this point, I had to concentrate on my blog, so I decided to add the
images for each section of the blog page.
Monday 2nd March I went back to my logbook PowerPoint and finished off analyzing each
page for my music magazine.

5. I completed a few more answers for my evaluation, and I had to
ensure that my answers were in depth and as coherent as possible. I
continued on my evaluation and I was on question 3, and so I had to
research a bit more on the publisher of my music magazine Vibe.
Monday 23rd March Finally, I completed my coursework and made all the necessary
changes to the blog page. I have also made sure that all the aspects
such as the research and evaluation is at its best.