This document outlines Abbie Fowler's progress over several months in completing a Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies. It provides a weekly schedule detailing the key tasks and learning outcomes, including: - Introduction to the portfolio requirements and conventions of a music magazine - Research on publishers, audiences, and communication theories - Developing skills in Photoshop for magazine page design - Creating preliminary drafts of the front cover, contents page, and blog - Incorporating feedback to refine pages and add more conventions - Completing the magazine spreads, blog, and final evaluation - Presenting the evaluation using Prezi

1. St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770
Candidate Name: Abbie Fowler
Candidate Number: 6402
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 9th September This week we have learnt;
Introduction to the portfolio
- conventions of a music magazine
- different shot types
- key features of a music magazine
- what a music magazine must have

2. Monday 16th September I have completed many things this week such as;
 Homework about publisher of Mixmag
 Audience profile
 Katz’ uses and gratification theory
 Hartley’s seven subjectivities
 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Monday 23rd September I have been able to learn new things this week, such as;
 Learning more codes & conventions
 Gaining more ideas for my preliminary task
 Being able to create surveys on survey monkey
 Being able to gain a better understanding in Photoshop
 Learning different tools in Photoshop
Monday 30th September This week I have learnt more about Photoshop with Tony
Harmer.
Monday 7th October - I completed my Prelim front cover
- I was able to meet my deadline
- Learning more about the different tools in Photoshop
individually
Monday 14th October - Being able to plan out a contents page by hand
- Make corrections to my front page
- Learning from my mistakes
Monday 21st October - Being able to follow a deadline for the contents page

3. - Being able to complete the main things within my contents
page.
- Being able to start finish off my contexts page but correcting
the things I have done wrong within my contexts page.
Half Term
Monday 4th November This week I have been able to, start to draft my front cover and
add main bits to my draft.
Monday 11th November Completed half of my final front cover for my magazine.
Monday 18th November Being able to put my own knowledge of Photoshop into work in
order to complete my front cover
Monday 25th November Adjust my front cover
Make a start on Contents page
Finish Hand drawn version of Contents page
Complete the main parts of my contents page
Monday 2nd December Started onto my contents page, adding all the conventions that
needed to be added onto my page.
Monday 9th December Finished my contents page
Monday 16th December Added detail onto my blog page to start making links and adding
pictures into my blog page
Christmas Holidays

4. Monday 6th January Started my double page spread and added more detail towards
my main pages
MONDAY 13TH JANUARY Add more detail towards my double page spread
Monday 20th January Added more conventions to my double page spread.
- still needs to be completed
Monday 10th February Completed most of my corrections throughout my coursework,
this then leads me to only have a few other things to complete
within my coursework. I still need to update my blog page and
add all my work onto it with the comments.
Monday 24th February There is still outstanding work that needs to be done, this
includes finishing off my magazine pages, updating the blog page,
finishing off my evaluation. Finished off my contents page, just
need to make final corrections for double page spread and the
planning and research.
Monday 3rd March I finished off all of my magazine pages and finished all of the
corrections. I then finished all of the corrections in my logbook, I
then went on and started my evaluation, answering question 1
and placing images into my evaluation. I need to still add things
onto my blog page.
Monday 10th March I completed all of my evaluation and the feedback which was
given to me, this then helped me to progress with the evaluation
and make it into more detail and more informative.
Monday 17th March After I completed all of my evaluation I then created Prezi, which
I uploaded my evaluation onto step by step, adding arrows and

5. making sure it fitted onto the page so its all neat.