Shaune Hazlehurst completed various tasks over several months for their Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies coursework. This included deconstructing magazine covers and articles, creating blog posts, conducting audience research, developing plans for a photo shoot and magazine production, taking photos, designing magazine pages in InDesign, and making ongoing refinements. The document outlines Shaune's process of iteratively designing and improving a preliminary magazine covering the hip hop genre for their course assignment.

1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135
Candidate Name: Shaune Hazlehurst
Candidate Number:
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 5th September Today I went through the class expectations and what I have to
do for the coursework.
Tuesday 6th September I deconstructed a front cover of VIBE magazine and evaluated
the codes and conventions of the magazine front cover.

2. Wednesday 7th September Additionally I learned about the audience theory; Katz, Maslow,
Socio economic needs and Hartley. I created my blog page and
wrote the brief for my blog page.
Thursday 8th September I filled out my audience profile page which related to the 4
audience theories and the stereotypes which related to the hip-
hop genre.
Friday 9th September First of all we analysed different shot types and then analysed
exemplar work from last year and wrote down 3 what went
well’s and 1 even better if’s. Lastly we went on to our blog page
and deconstructed an NME magazine.
Wednesday 14th
September
Today I created and completed my mood board with many
pictures relating to the hip hop genre. I then started my mind
map.
Thursday 15th September I have created my analysis of contents page and DPS of my
magazine of inspiration.Furthermore I had written my first
blog.
Monday 19th September Today I completed a Double page spread and Contents page
analysis of an XXL magazine. Furthermore I had received
homework to complete blog post 2 and magazine prop list.

3. Wednesday 21st
September
I have created a survey on survey monkey and sent it out to 10
people. Furthermore I made 2 questionnaires for people to fill
out.
Thursday 22nd September I cleaned up my blog page and added formal language together
with adding a new blog post. Furthermore I started analysis of
different fonts that I am thinking of using.
Wednesday 28th
September
Started my magazine flat plan.
Thursday 29th September I have started my photo-shoot plan.
Monday 3rd October Today I have finished my magazine flat plan and have started
my location recce. I have further done more work to my photo-
shoot plan.
Wednesday 5th October I have started filling in my production plan while analyzing
previous work.
Thursday 6th October I have finished my production plan and completed some
corrections form previous work.
Thursday 13th October I have started my primary research analysis of my survey
monkey results and questionnaire results.
Monday 17th October I have learned new Photo-Shop skills to help me created my
preliminary magazine.
Wednesday 19th October I have started to complete my mind map for the preliminary
Magazine.
Thursday 20th October I have inserted ruler lines and the barcode into my preliminary
magazine front cover.
Half Term

4. Wednesday 2nd November I have further completed more corrections for my mind maps
and prop list. I have also worked on the preliminary front cover
as I have added my masthead and school logo.
Thursday 3rd November I have added in a main image into my preliminary front cover
magazine and cropped the background out of the picture.
Monday 7th November I had added further detail to the main image.
Tuesday 8th November I have added puff promotion to my front cover.
Thursday 10th November I have added cover lines and sub-lines to my front cover.
Friday 11th November I have added more cover lines and images of books to support
the main image.
Monday 17th November I have completed a checklist for my magazine front cover on my
preliminary task . I have also started my contents page.
Monday 21st November I have completed the ‘general’ content for my contents page and
have made everything the same colour scheme as the front
page.
Tuesday 22nd November I have added more cover lines to my contents page.
Monday 7th December I have started my step-by-step plan for my preliminary front
cover.
Monday 14th December I have started my main magazine front cover and have added an
abstract background. Furthermore I have a masthead to my
front cover.
Monday 15th December I have taken pictures for my front cover and images for other
pages in my magazine.
Monday 19th December I have added cover lines to my magazine front cover.
Tuesday 20th December I have updated my colour scheme and my barcode to fit my

5. specification and my magazine of inspiration.
Christmas Holidays
Wednesday 4th January
2017
I have taken a better front cover photo. Furthermore I have
searched for a relevant headline font but have had no luck in
finding one.
Thursday 5th January Today I have edited my main image to make it look more
professional. Also I put in more cover lines to fill empty spaces.
Tuesday 10th January I have started my contents page and made my background the
same colour as my front cover.
Wednesday 11th January I have arranged the conventions to suit best my magazine of
inspiration.
Friday 13th January I have taken a photo for my editorial and photos for other
people’s contents pages.
Thursday 19th January I have started my editorial page by adding a title and masthead.
Furthermore I have put black boxes where I will be adding
pictures so I can do the writingfirst.
Friday 23th January I have started my DPS template on InDesign and have inserted
my interview. I have added a drop capital and pull quote.
Wednesday 1st February I have added colours to my background. I have furthermore
added a title to my DPS.
Thursday 2nd February I have changed the font and style of my title to mirror the
masthead. Furthermore I have edited the interview to make it

6. more concise.
Friday 3rd February I have taken the picture for my double page spread and have
insert edit into the page. I have edited out the background on
Photoshop.
Tuesday 7th February I have re edited the image by increasing the quality of the image
on Photoshop.
Wednesday 8th February I have added social media icons, web address and page number
to the DPS.
Friday 10th February I have improved the background colours of my DPS by using the
gradient tool; this allowed me to use lighter oranges.
Wednesday 15th February I have revisited my front cover and improved the quality of the
main image by using the advanced hair selection tool.
Thursday 16th February I have replaced the puff promotion from Spotify to Beats
headphones, as I believe this is more relevant to hip-hop
listeners.
Tuesday 21st February I have added more cover lines to my front cover and made the
text white to keep with the house style.
Wednesday 22nd February I have revisited my contents page and rearranged the cover
lines and added relevant information such as date, page number
and website address.
Friday 24th February I have improved the background of my contents page by using a
darker orange rather than a lighter one so there is variety in the
colours.

7. Wednesday 29th February I have recoloured the headline text and sub-line numbers so
that it compliments the house style.
Friday 31st March I have revisited my editorial and added social media icons, date,
page number and web address.