The document is a production diary for a student's final major project creating a magazine. It provides weekly updates on the student's progress, including completing tasks like creating a proposal, conducting market research with questionnaires, developing mood boards, and writing a pitch. It also consistently includes plans for the next week, such as designing the magazine masthead, taking photographs, and continuing to write and memorize the pitch. The diary demonstrates steady progress on pre-production and lays out goals to keep the project on track toward the deadline.

1. BTEC Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
IG4 Final Major Project
Production Diary
PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK(Including Possible
Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)
Mon W/B 07/01/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
Mon W/B 14/01/13 I have now come up with my initial idea and now that I have this I My plan for next week is to explain my initial idea in
(Detailed Weekly Summary) have been able to begin filling in my time management timeline as detail which I will write up on a word document then I
I know exactly what things I will need to do for: research, pre- will start my research, I firstly want to start by doing
production, production and post-production. I have now market research this is where I will begin looking at
completed this time management task and uploaded it to my blog, other magazines with the same genre that I have chosen
linking it to the label, so that piece of work has now been and then start writing questionnaires that I will hand
completed and evidenced. out to the group of people that my magazine is
targeting to try and get a better and more clearer idea
of what they want to ensure my magazine will meet
these things.
Mon W/B 21/01/13 I have now finished of my ideas generation mind map and I am half I plan to have this PowerPoint finished and uploaded to
(Detailed Weekly Summary) way through a PowerPoint I have done looking at my magazine my blog by next week and then I will start writing my
influences and talking about them and showing the research I have proposal for this project.
done about them and giving a few ideas of what I will do in my
own magazine.
Mon W/B 28/01/13 I have not yet finished my PowerPoint I did for my magazine I have now completed my PowerPoint and uploaded it
(Detailed Weekly Summary) influences, however this is because I have completed my proposal to my blog. Now for the rest of the week I will be
as I prioritised my work and thought the Proposal was more carrying on with my pre-production where I will be
important and there for should be done first and now that I have finding images of pages, front covers and contents
completed this and uploaded it to my blog I will continue to work pages of Teen Vogue magazine as that is my main
on my magazine influences PowerPoint. magazine inspiration and then with these I will be
creating a mood board to show what I am going for with
my own magazine.
Mon W/B 04/02/13 This week I began looking at all other magazines with the same I have created the two mood boards that I planned to
(Detailed Weekly Summary) genre of my magazine and gathered images of all the ones that I do this week and have uploaded them both to my blog.
liked and put them into a mood board and then from these I Next week is our week off so I am going to book out a
picked my favourite and created a separate mood board using just camera and during this week off take most of the

2. BTEC Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
IG4 Final Major Project
Production Diary
images from that mood board. images for my magazine as up to now I have 1 model. I
will need quite a few more people however as I am only
using one person for my front cover this will do fine for
now.
Mon W/B 11/02/13 I planned to book out a camera from college and take most of the Because I wasn’t able to take my pictures this week I will
(Detailed Weekly Summary) images for my magazine as this is the week we have off from see if I can arrange to do that by next week instead
college however, there was another class that had a project that whether it is during the week or at the weekend.
had to use all the cameras so there was none left for anyone else, As I will be taking pictures outside of college, during my
so instead I wrote up a plan of what images I would take so I could lessons next week I will start creating a thorough
not work on anything this week, however I managed to gather questionnaire as part of my market research then I will
together who will be my models so I’m ready for the picture hopefully have this done over maybe 2 lessons at the
process. most and then hand them out on Thursday and then by
the beginning of next week I hope to have the results
from them all tallied up and then I will put them on my
blog along with the questionnaire I originally created.
Mon W/B 18/02/13 I created my questionnaire and in a college break I handed them I now plan to write up a detailed plan of what images I
(Detailed Weekly Summary) out around the college, approaching my target audience and got am going to take and where and explain what is going
the results and tallied them up then in my next lesson I wrote up onto each page.
an analysis talking about my results, why I asked those specific
questions and what I will do with them now.
Mon W/B 25/02/13 This week I wrote up a plan for my magazine, where I talked about Next week I will plan writing my pitch, which I will be
(Detailed Weekly Summary) my colour scheme, image plans and what would be in my magazine delivering on the 18th March.
and on the front cover and then when this was done on word I
uploaded it to slide share then to my blog to evidence my work.
Mon W/B 04/03/13 I wrote my magazine pitch in the first two lessons I had this week I plan to get all the images I need to do my PowerPoint
(Detailed Weekly Summary) and I timed myself reading it through so that I knew how long the presentation and then I want that to be finished in the
presentation I plan to create will need to be. I will now start first lesson I have next week so that I can start learning
gathering images for my presentation. what I need to say for my pitch.
Mon W/B 11/03/13 I have now finished my presentation and I am just adding a little bit I will start writing cue cards that I will be able to take in
(Detailed Weekly Summary) more to my pitch as I feel I left some things out of It, that I need to with me and continue to try and memorise my pitch
talk about. ready for Tuesday, when I will be doing my pitch.
Mon W/B 18/03/13 I made sure that I was all prepared and ready for my Pitch this Next week I would like to start designing the front cover

3. BTEC Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
IG4 Final Major Project
Production Diary
(Detailed Weekly Summary) week and I delivered my pitch that I thought went very well. for my magazine as I now have the image that I want to
use for it and as I am only using one image I will be able
to do this, firstly I need to design my masthead, what it
will look like and what colours as I already have the
name.
Mon W/B 01/04/13 This week I began thinking of names I could call my magazine and Plan for next week is to have found the text that I want
(Detailed Weekly Summary) looking at names of other magazines and things to do with the to have my masthead in and be ready to design if not
type of magazine that I am doing, things involved with that specific already started designing it.
genre and I have decided on a name, my magazine will be call
Runway. I have started looking at fonts to use for it.
Mon W/B 08/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
Mon W/B 15/04/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible
Contingency Plans)