This document provides a schedule of work completed by a student named Jonathan Sheehan for their Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies course. Over the period from September to March, the student learned skills in research, design, photography, and Adobe programs. They created elements for a mock music magazine, including a contents page, front cover, double-page spread, and evaluation. The schedule shows the student progressively completing individual tasks and sections of their coursework.
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1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135
Candidate Name: Jonathan Sheehan
Candidate Number:2127
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning WorkCompleted
Monday8th September • I have learnt some basic research about music magazines which began my research.
• Also I have found out further about the types of features which make up the front cover of a maga-
zine.
• Today I have learn much about the different analyzing techniques involved in the target audience for
music magazines and specialized this to my work.
Monday15th September • in my free lesson today I completed my information for ‘CLASH’and ‘Q’ magazine, listing what
makes their USP and target audience. In the lesson I created my WordPress account which will hold
all of my work which I am very impressed with as it is free and gives the creator a lot of freedom to
edit to my liking.
• Today I started my audience profile and set up my Survey Monkey to the public what they want
form my magazine.
• Today I have learnt further about the current task and have identified the ideas that I have and want
to produce. I have also nearly completed my survey monkey ready for publishing and I have also
nearly finished my PowerPoint which I can upload to slide share and then further to my WordPress.
2. Monday22nd September • Today we learnt some basic Photoshop skills in order to make our practice front cover, which we
have started.
Monday29th September • Today I have learnt many key features of Photoshop and have started many key features of the front
cover, such as the masthead and main picture.
• Today I have completed other factors of my front cover, these include the date, issue, social media
and price.
Monday6th October • In this lesson I completed more feature to do with my website and made sure that everything is up to
standard.
• I have completed my puff promotion, website name and cover lines.
Monday13th October • Learnt about the different tasks in which I have to complete.
• Today’s lesson I started my contents page and added features, such as the title, sub headings and the
issue date for the copy of the magazine.
• Today I got more features completed on the contents page and created a blog post.
• The page numbers and editorial was completed today.
• Today I have nearly completed my contents page, a couple of more features added and it will be
completed!
Monday20th October
HALF TERM
Monday3rd November I have now finished my contents page, survey monkey and questionnaire results and are ready to up-
load.
Monday10th November Both mind maps have now been finished, along withmy mood boards and ideas pages.
Monday17th November I have uploaded most of my finished work to my blog site and I now have three posts.
Monday24th November I have started my main frontcover and have finished many of the conventions to make it looklike
CLASH magazine. The photos have been taken to a high quality.
3. Monday1st December I have completed most of my front cover.There is the main convention that I have still to complete
and that is the editing of my photograph. I aim to get this done very soon.
Monday8th December I have started my contents page and have completed the basic layout, signature for my editorial, date,
web address, page number and background.
• I have now completed many of my cover stories as well as the layout of my editorial.
Monday15th December • Now I have nearly completed the contents page. All I have to complete is the stories. The editorial is
finished and the photos have been taken.
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5th January
Other components have been uploaded onto my blog site and more blog posts have been made.
15th January My contents page is now finally finished and I am now moving on towards my double page spread.
19th January I started my double page spread today and have gained knowledge on how to create it in the adobe
program InDesign. This will be hard because I have not used the program before howeveram opti-
mistic on how this willbe better on Photoshop.
I have been on this task for 2 days and have completed many of the tasks, my interview has been
placed in along with the main image and other features such as the page numbers.
Monday26thJanuary Monday 26th January
I have now fully completed my DPSand the interview has been fitted in place and works withthe
other features.
Thursday 29th January
Today I thought of adding in some new features such as the gradient, the music download section and
the clothing section.
Monday2ndFebruary Monday 2nd February
I noticed today that my main image on the right page was looking lower quality then when I edited it,
howeverthis was resolved by right clickingand changing the image quality from ‘fast’ to ‘high’ qual-
ity.
Thursday 5th February
The feedback given by my teacher was rectified today.
4. Monday9thFebruary Friday 13th February
This week I have tried to complete all of my courseworkin time to be marked overhalf term.
HALF TERM
Monday23rdFebruary Thursday 25th February
Now my DPS is finished I have saved it in jpeg form so that I can upload it to my blog page.
Monday30thFebruary Wednesday 4th March
I have started my evaluation questions 1 and 2 and have sent them to my teacher ready for marking.
Thursday 5th March
Now have completed evaluation question 3.
Monday9thMarch Thursday 6th March
Evaluation questions 5 and 6 have now been completed and sent to my teacher.
Monday16thMarch Monday 16th March
All evaluation questions have now been sent to my teacher and marked ready so that I can convert
them to my chosen technologies in the half term.
