Jessica Blundell completed a foundation portfolio in media studies over several months. She documented her progress in a logbook, researching magazines, deciding on a genre, completing audience research and profiles, and beginning designs for magazine covers and contents pages. Key tasks included preliminary designs, a double page interview spread, and evaluations of her research, planning and design process.

1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135
Candidate Name: JessicaBlundell
Candidate Number: 1020
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 1st September - Started to complete the logbook
Monday 7th September - Completed logbook.
- Researched magazines and their publishers and what makes up a
magazine cover.
- Researched the target audience of the two magazines researched (Q
and billboard).
Monday 14th September - Decided on genre my magazine will be
- Began to consider what the target audience is and why.

2. Monday 21st September - Completed mood board
- Completed mind map
- Completed audience profile
Monday 21st September -Began to research a font for my masthead
Completed research for a masthead font and came to a final
decision and explained why.
- I have started my photo-shoot planning.
Monday 28th September - Started production plan
- -Created a survey on survey monkey
- Made changes to the mind map and started to change the mood
board.
Monday 5th October - I created another questionnaire to complete my primary research.
- I will also be starting my hand drawn drafts, which is where I will
design my front cover, contents page and interview double page spread.
- Started the preliminary task – created a mind map
Monday 12th October - Created the front cover of the preliminary task
- Put in the masthead, the barcode and the strapline.
- Changed the banner
Monday 19th October I continued doing my school magazine front cover
I added the Facebook and twitter logo and added the price
Monday 2nd November Preliminary task
- Created my contents page
- Added the background gradient and started to put the banner in.

3. Finished the banner
Put it first cover line
Put in ‘this week…’ title
Added cover lines
Monday 9th November - Added a picture
- Added pictures that go with the stories included.
- Added picture to editorial
- Finished contents page
- Made corrections to the front cover.
Monday 16th November - Started main task font cover
- Added masthead, strapline, month of release, main image, some
cover lines and a barcode area.
Monday 23rd November - Added more cover lines and effects
Monday 30th November - Finished adding all of the cover lines
- Added effects to the cover lines e.g. stroke effect, drop shadow
Monday 7th December - Started contents page
- Added the contents text and started to set out guidelines
- Started to create the music chart on the contentspage so it is
similar to Billboard's charts,however,I am only including
songs, as I need room for my editorial.
Christmas Holidays
14th December Started to create the music chart on the contents

4. page so it is similarto Billboard's charts, however, I
am only including songs,as I need room for my
editorial.
Christmas holidays
4th January - finishedthe top charts column
- startedto add the actual content of the
magazine to the page.
- I also added another blue bar at the bottom of
the page so that it matches Billboard,
- made the blue lighter so that it's the same blue
as the blue used in the masthead,this is where I
wrote 'HOMEFRONT' just like Billboard does.
11th January - Made some corrections to prelim planning and
research PowerPoint and magazine flat plan
18th January - Added editorial to contents page
- Added final three images to contents page
after editing them
- Added page numbers to the three extra
images.
- Corrected mood board, mind map,
production plan
25th January - Primary research evaluation and location

5. recce corrections
- Prop list corrections
1st February - Started double page spread by creating a
background in Photoshop and adding the main
image
8th February - Added headline, page credits, introduction to the
interview, typed up interview on a word
document
15th February - Webpage address put in
- Page number added
- Drop capitals added
- Changed font styles so questions were in
bold
22nd February - Finished adding interview
- Added drop capitals
29th February - Added social media logos
- Added pull quote
- Proof read interview
7th march - Completed contents and DPS power point
analysis
14th march - Preliminary task pages corrections
21st march - Evaluation question 1
28th march - Evaluation question 2 completed
- Evaluation question 3
- Uploaded some coursework to blog page

6. 4th April Finished evaluation question 4 & 5
Uploaded some coursework to blog page
11th April Finished evaluation question 6
Uploaded coursework to blog page
18th April Finished evaluation question 7
Corrected all of my questions and uploaded
question 1 to 5 during the week
Uploaded coursework to blog page
Uploaded some questions to technologies
25th April Uploaded the rest of my questions to relevant
technologies
Finished Blog Page