This document provides a weekly schedule and summary of work completed by a student for their Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies unit. Over the course of several months, the student worked on tasks analyzing magazines, creating mood boards, magazine layouts, photography plans, and draft magazine covers and spreads. They took photos, edited images, designed magazine pages in software like Photoshop and InDesign, and made corrections to their preliminary and main projects. By the end, the student had completed covers, contents pages, and double page spreads for both a preliminary and main magazine project.

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.
28th February I decided that my main image on my DPS needed to be bigger as to
repeat (Steve Neale)the conventions of ‘The Source magazine’ where
in my double page spread of inspiration has the artist going slightly
onto the left page of the DPS and therefore I made the image bigger.
1st March With my DPS nearcompletion there were still some corrections / certain
things that needed doingto it in order to make it complete. The social media
logos in the bottom right of the second page of my double page spread were
not in line with the page numberon the left. I felt it was important to ensure
that the conventions on my double page spread and other pages aligned and
so used the frame for the columns to align the social media logos with the page
number.
8th March Although I had finished the article on my double page spread, I thought that it
was lackingElectronic Media and so reduced the size of the text in the article
to 13pt and added ‘*Visit our Facebook page TheLean Musicto watch the full
interview*’

7. 15th March With the background for my main task front cover I felt that the stars were
slightly distractingand so decided to change it. To find a new, perhaps more
suitable background, I took to google and began searching and found an
aurora background and so applied it to my front cover and removed the
background with stars
22nd March With the cover lines down the side of my front cover for my main task I
realised that they were not correctly aligned and so used the rulertool and
lined them all up with my masthead as well as moving my masthead overin
order to make it more central.
24th March With my main task front cover I came to the conclusion that the previous main
image that featured on the front cover was inadequateand did not fit the
specification/ stereotype of the hip-hop genre. I therefore made the decision
to remove the main image and thus proceeded to take newimages of the artist
wearing more stereotypical orappropriate clothing. For example, within one
of my front covers of inspiration, taken from ‘The Source’ magazine, that
feature hip-hop artist ’50 Cent’, ’50 Cent’ can be seen wearing a cap. Taking
inspiration from ‘The Source’ and elsewhere I came to the realisation that the
artist within my front cover should be wearing a cap and so photographed
them as such.
25TH March The main image for my main task front cover, despite havingtaken the image,
was yet to be complete as there were edits that needed applying. Firstly, I
began by of course removingthe background using the quick selection tool to
first select the artist in the image and areas that Iwanted to keep, afterdoing
this, I then went to select – inverse in the top bar of photoshop in order to
reverse the selection so that the background was selected, afterdoing this I
used the background eraser tool and magic wand tool to remove remaining

8. areas that had not been removed whilst usingthe quick selection tool. I then
selected the image and used refine edge to soften the edges.
26th March I have since added in the new main image to my main task front cover. In order
to add it in I opened the main task front cover and went to file – place , placed
in the image and then used the ruler tool to position the image.
27th March I have now completed all of the conventions and appropriate corrections for
my front cover and thus have uploaded it to my Unit G321 Blog page.
29Th March My contents page was more or less complete yet it was lackinga main image.
Havingtaken the contents page main image recently afterthe main image, the
first thingthat needed to be done was to apply edits. In order to cut out the
image I used the previous method (Using the quick selection tool, background
eraser tool and magic wand tool) that I had applied to the main image. With
the background removed from the image I placed in the image using file –
place.

9. 31st March Before completingmy contents page I needed to make certain corrections in
order to make sure that everythingwas correct and appropriate. Firstly I came
to realise that the editorial withinmy contents page was far too small and
looked ratherout of place. In order to fix this and make it look slightly more
professional I decided that the editorial would need to be moved and the text
would need to be made much bigger. Therefore I moved the features box
upwards and extended it outwards by a small amount and then extended it
downwards in order to place the editorial underthe features. Ithen selected
all of the editorial layers and moved them into the boxand then individually
resized them until the text and image were big enough to be easily noticed.
I have now completed my main task contents page as I have made all
appropriate corrections and have now finalised the page. Swell as
completing the contents page my Double page spread for my main task
is also complete and therefore I have now completed all pages for my
main task.