This document outlines the schedule and work completed by a student for their Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies unit. Over several months, the student undertook research on existing magazines, created preliminary pages including a cover and contents page, and developed their main tasks - a cover, contents page, and double page spread. They went through multiple drafts and corrections. The student also wrote evaluation questions responding to the unit criteria and added all their work and reflections to a blog page to complete the portfolio.

1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135
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Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 31st September
Monday 7th September  I looked at and annotated the cover for Q magazine
 I started to see what the USP of Q magazine is and the target
audience, as well as publisher info and the music genre.
 I then looked at Classic Rock music magazine and complete a
similar process to before.
 I have started the production of my audience profile
 I have thought about who my target audience is.
Monday 14th September  I have completed my mood board and my mind map

2.  I have started to analyses a contents page and DPS
 I have made corrections to my audience profile
Monday 22nd September  I have completed my DPS and contents page analysis
 I have started my Masthead Font Styles
 I have started my magazine flat plan
Monday 29th September  I have completed my masthead font page
 I have completed my magazine flat plan
 Stared photo shoot plan
 Stared production plan
 Stared locations recces
Monday 6th October  Completed more work on my production plan, photo shot plan
and locations recces
 I have begun to finish off any incomplete work
 I have begun to draw draft on pages of the magazine
 I have begun to work on the preliminary magazine
Monday 13th October  Done more on my prelim cover Photoshop
 Finished hand drawn prelim cover
 Done more on my prelim cover.
 I have added in a picture of George on the prelim front cover.
 I have cropped the background using the quick selection tool.
In these last two day I have completely finished my preliminary front
cover for a school magazine. I have followed a checklist to make sure that
I have put everything that makes up a good cover page of a magazine, on
to the preliminary cover. I have finished my puff promotion, added all of

3. the featured articles and added pictures of each of them.
I will need to start to draw my hand drawn draft for the prelim contents
page, as well as plan of and/or take the picture for my main magazines
cover page.
Monday 19th October  I have completely finished my preliminary cover page. I did some
spelling corrections the the text on the page, and added a few
new pictures to the bottom of the page.
 Finished off my had drawn drafts for the preliminary contents
page
Half Term
Monday 2nd November  I have started my preliminary contents page and added the title
of the page, with the background the top bar.
 I have added the sections for the articles on the pages, as well as
creating spaces for pictures, the editorial and articles
Monday 9th November  I have added all of the articles for the contents page, and began
to add the pictures for each of the articles on the page
 I have added the main picture for the contents page and added a
caption
 I began to add the editorial
Monday 16th November  I have finished the editorial and added the editor’s picture.
 I added a few more detail to the page, corrected some spelling
mistakes and change the positioning of some of the pictures, as

4. well as add the page number for the article shown in the picture.
Monday 24th November  I have stared my main task cover page
 I placed the masthead on the page, as well as the strapline
underneath the masthead.
 I added the complete barcode on the page
 I added the background to the page
 Place the cover star picture on the page
Monday 1st December  I replace the cover star image on the page
 Added the puff promotion at the top of the page
 I placed the main title on the page
 Added the cover lines to the page
 Added a step to the right of the page
 Added a shattered glass effect to the background
 Added text to the top of the page
 Finished my cover page
Monday 8th December  I started my main task contents page
 I added a title to the page (including issue 1)
 Placed the background on the page
 Added areas for the pictures to be place in
 Added a title for the featured articles
 Began to put articles on the page
 Added the page number to the bottom of the page
Monday 14th December  I added the pictures to the contents page
 Added all of the article

5.  Created an editorial page
 Placed in the editorial with a drop capital and editor picture
 Placed in a title and masthead
 Added in a signature and contact information
Christmas Holidays
Monday 4th January  Corrected some of my planning and research
 Started work on my main task DPS
 Using the pen tool to create text boxes for the interview
 Added a text box for the pull quote
Monday 11th January  I placed in my interview to the DPS
 Put in my pull quote
 Put in the title of the page, the name of the artist
 Placed in the background colour
Monday 18th January  I added scratch effects to the background of the page
 Began to put in the pictures on the pages
Monday 25th January  I put in the responsibilities line at the bottom of the page
 Put in the rest of the pictures
 Added the page number and wed address
Monday 1st February  Change a few things on my content page
 Change the name of the main artist to Jack Adams
 Changed some of the page numbers to fit my flat plan
 Added social media links

6.  Added page number on editorial
Monday 8th February  Finished my Main Task DPS
 Added new picture to my DPS
 Added some Text
 Changed the positions of some of the conventions
 Changed some font styles and sizes
Monday 15th February  Finnish making corrections to my contents page and editorial
pages
 Corrected spelling mistakes
 Changed editors name from ‘George Marsden’ to my name ‘Sean
Wayne’
 Changed the signature
 Changed font colours and styles
Monday 22nd February  I started to make sure that all of my planning and research is all
corrected, so I can upload it onto my blog page
Monday 29th February  Worked through some of the remaining corrections on my
planning and research
Monday 7th March  Written my evaluation question 1 on to word
 Started writing my evaluation question 2
 Finished more of my correction on my planning and research
pages
Monday 14th March  Finished writing my evaluation question 2
 Started to write my evaluation question 3
 Did more of my corrections for my planning and research

7. Monday 21st March  Finished writing my question 3
 Started to write my evaluation question 4
 Finished off my correcting on the planning and research tasks
Monday 28th March  Finished writing my evaluation question 4
 Started writing my evaluation question 5
 Doing a few final corrections to my main task pages
 Moving the positioning of some of the text
 Changing the wording of some of the text
Monday 4th April  Finished writing my evaluation question 6
 Started writing my evaluation question 7
 Doing more corrections to my main task pages
Monday 11th April  Finishing off more corrections on my main task pages
 Making sure that all of the text makes sense
 Started to put the evaluation questions in the media convections
Monday 18th April  Finished all corrections on my main task pages.
 Started to put everything into the blog page
 Putting more evaluation questions in their media convections
Monday 25th April  Finished putting evaluation questions into media conventions.
 Placed Evaluation questions into blog post
 Placed everything else into the blog page