This document provides a schedule and summary of work completed by a student for their media studies portfolio over several months. It includes analyzing magazine covers and contents, creating mood boards, researching genres, planning photo shoots, designing magazine covers and layouts in programs like Photoshop and InDesign. The student captures snapshots of their process, showing iterations of refining designs and adding elements to their preliminary and main magazine cover and contents page tasks.

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 5th September In my lessons I deconstructed an issue of vibe magazine front
cover. This taught me the basics components of a magazine front
cover.
Wednesday 7th September In todays lesson I went through the Katz, Harley and Maslow’s
theory
Thursday 8th September Today I created an audience profile of my hip hop genre for my
planning and research task

2. Friday 9th To start my lesson I went through different shot types. I then
analyzed exemplar work from one of last year’s students.
Furthermore I updated my blog by deconstructing a ‘The Source’
magazine front cover.
Monday 12th September In this lesson I created a mood board full of things related to the
hip-hop genre
Thursday 15th September In this lesson I analyzed a contents page and double page spread
for my textual anaylsis
Monday 19th September Today I continued analyzing the contents page and double page
spread for both my PowerPoint and blog.
Thursday 22nd September In this lesson I began to look through and analyze different fonts
for my masthead
Friday 23rd September In todays lesson I managed to complete my analysis of fonts and
made a final decision on the font I will be using on my masthead.
Wednesday 28th
September
In this lesson I created a magazine flat plan for what the inside of
my magazine would look like
Thursday 23rd September Today I began to make a photography plan for the photos which I
will be taking to use in my magazine
Wednesday 5th October In this lesson I began to make a production plan.
Thursday 6th October In this lesson I finished of my photography plan for the photos
which I will be taking to use in my magazine
Friday 7th October In todays lesson I began my primary research
Monday 10th October In this lesson I create hand drawn drafts for my preliminary task.
Thursday 20th October In this lesson I began to create the front cover for my preliminary
task

3. Half Term
Wednesday 2nd November In this lesson I added my main image to my front cover for my
preliminary task
Thursday 3rd November In this lesson I continued with my preliminary task front cover
and began creating a puff promotion
Thursday 10th November I have now once again changed the puff promotion. I have also
rearranged the cover lines and included a promotion for my youtube
channel.
Friday 11th November To finalise my preliminary front cover I aligned all of my cover lines. I
then began to create a step-by-step of my magazine and took step-by-
step screenshots and added them to my preliminary task powerpoint
and began to explain them.
Thursday 17th November I have now resized the images in my barcode for the front cover of my
preliminary task and added the masthead to the barcode. I also added
a website link to my front cover. I then completed a checklist to
ensure that I had added all the necessary components for my front
cover. I then began my contents page and added the masthead,
background and St.Andrews logo.
Monday 21st November With my contents page I have now added a banner, resized the
St.Andrews logo, added an image for the first story and added the title
of the first story.
Tuesday 22nd November I have made adjustments to my contents page. I have completed my
first story within the contents page and begun to add other featured
stories.
Wednesday 23rd November I have as of now aligned my features and added a number of other

4. stories to my contents page for my preliminary task.
Thursday 24th November I have now completed all of my featuresand other stories and have
also added in an editorial for the magazine with an image of myself
included into the editorial. I have also, below the editorial, included
an image of the front of St. Andrews catholic school along with a range
of words that reflect the schools morals and social media links to both
Instagram and Facebook.
Friday 25th November Up to now I have added in the page number of the contents page for
my preliminary task and also included the magazines website and
rearranged the social media icons.
Wednesday 7th December If have since made final improvements to my contents page for my
preliminary task such as aligning all of the components and then
continued with my step by step guide.
Monday 12th December I have now began the front cover for my main task and have created
the masthead, strapline, background and began my barcode.
Wednesday 14th December As of now I have made adjustments to the colour of my masthead and
have also resized it along with my streamline. I have also began to
add in a cover line and made additions to my barcode including my
magazines website and social media links.
Monday 19th December I have now taken the photo for my main front cover. Before using the
image I cropped it and applied edits to it. After adding it in I resized
and positioned it.
Tuesday 20th December Now I have made touches to the image for my front cover and created
an album cover to add into the barcode and made alterations to the
cover lines and main headline.
Tuesday 3rd January I have since changed the masthead to white and removed the glow

5. from Photoshop and added a drop shadow. I then used the burn tool
to darken the effects on the photo as they had lightened the image too
much.
Thursday 4th January I have added an image for one of the cover lines and have also added
in a puff promotion for free concert tickets. I have also aligned all of
the components so that they look much neater.
Friday 5th January I have begun the contents page for my main task. To the front cover I
have added the background, title, and have begun adding features.
Tuesday 10th January Continuing my contents page I added a few features to the magazine.
Wednesday 11th January I have now made sure all of the components of my contents page are
well aligned and completed multiple features for the magazine. I have
also added a page number and web address.
Thursday 12th January I have now added three more featuresto my contents page for the
main task.
Friday 13th January To the contents page for my main task I have added in an editorial. To
do this I first needed to have a photo taken of myself. I then edited the
photo on Adobe Bridge and added a vignette in Photoshop before
adding it to my contents page. After doing this I scanned in my
signature and cropped out the background then added it to the page.
To complete the Editorial I included my name and added the editorial
text.
Tuesday 24th January I've set up my DPS template on InDesign.
Wednesday 25th January I have now added to my DPS on InDesign a background and added in
three columns. Within the columns I have added in the interview for
the text, a drop capital. I have also added in the Masthead and the
website and page number at the bottom.

6. Thursday 26th January I have now changed the page number at the bottom right of the page. I
also added the page number to the bottom left of the page, using text
wrap to wrap the text around it. Another thing that I have included is
a pull quote at the top of the article using a quote from the article.
Wednesday 1st February To add to my double page spread for my main task I have taken a
picture and used Photoshop to remove the background using the
quick selection tool, magic wand tool, background eraser tool and the
eraser tool. I then used the refine edge tool to smoothen the edges
before adding it into my double page spread.
Christmas Holidays