1. St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770
Candidate Name: Liam De Costa
Candidate Number: 6146
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 9th September  Introduction to Unit G321 and Unit G322. Created blog and
introduced to the foundation portfolio in media.
 Analysed the codes and conventions of the front cover of VIBE.
 Looked at past exemplar work to gain inspiration and ideas.
 Reviewed different shot types.
Monday 16th September  Introduced to Katz, Hartley’s and Mazlow’s theory.
 Created a target audience analysis of our sub-genre
Monday 23rd September  Continued with issues with media ownership, having a look at

2. co-production deals and how it affects the individual studios.
 Briefly shown basic techniques in Photoshop
 Survey monkey sent out and 6 responses received (25th)
 Started the creation of our preliminary task in Photoshop
Monday 30th September  Travelled to London to have an academy class in Photoshop,
adding new skills of photo manipulation to my knowledge. (3rd
October, The Academy Class, Tony Harmer)
 Gathered results from survey monkey and questionnaire
Monday 7th October  I was able to meet the deadline of finishing the preliminary front
cover (9th)
 Added changes to preliminary cover noted by my teacher.
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Monday 14th October  Learned another case study (A field in England) involved with
VOD
 Planned contents page for preliminary task
 Started work on contents page of preliminary task using my plan
however I need to take more photos to relate to cover stories
inside.
Monday 21st October  I have completed my Contents page of my preliminary task and
have met the deadline of finishing all documents and updated my
logbook to date.
 This task has improved my skills in Photoshop and added to my
knowledge of how magazines are designed.
 DO NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL

3. Half Term
Monday 4th November  Learnt about cross-media convergence and examples in current
media.
 Started planning the front cover of my magazine, by
brainstorming ideas for my masthead. I thought up my masthead
from a song currently in the charts. “TKO – Justin Timberlake”
 I have planned my front cover on a whiteboard using a similar
layout to “XXL magazine” that I will need to transfer to paper.
Monday 11th November  Started work on main task front cover by placing a few
conventions on the page. I need to take some photos for my main
image by next lesson.
 Continued work on the front page by including the main headline
and have chose to use myself as the anchoring main artist.
Monday 18th November  I have completed my front cover 2 days before deadline and now
am just completing work on my blog page and log book.
Monday 25th November  I have started work on my contents page for my main task using
my completed hand drawn draft. By using resources such as
‘XXL’ magazine and last year’s work, I am ensuring that my
contents page will look similar to existing layouts to reduce the
chance of it failing.
 I have completed my editorial in word however I haven’t taken a
photo of someone for my editor picture as I am the cover artist in

4. my magazine. I decided not to place my editorial into the page
yet as I want to manipulate the text around my editor image. I
now need to start getting pictures for my contents page as the
layout is now set for me to start inputting my content.
Monday 2nd December  I have placed in my cover story image into my contents page and
manipulated it to fit into the page. I now need to get a cover line
image for my contents bar.
Monday 9th December  I have placed an image for one of my cover lines into my contents
page and have now completed the document.
Monday 16th December  I have received my corrections and have started to make changes
to my contents page. Over the Christmas holidays I will need to
write up my questions and answers for my double page spread.
Christmas Holidays
Monday 6th January  I have completed my hand drawn draft of my double page spread
influenced by many different issues of ‘XXL’ magazine. We have
also begun work on Section B of the exam, looking into the three
codes: verbal, technical, non-verbal.
 I have made a start on my double page by placing my images and
manipulating them to fit into my page layout. I have duplicated
over my masthead and banners from my contents. I will continue
on creating this double page by manipulating text around one of
the images. Feedback I have received involve keeping the main
image black and white as it consists of the same colour scheme

5. as my front cover.
Monday 13th January  Exam work
Monday 20th January  Exam work
Monday 27th January  Exam work
Monday 3rd February  Exam work
Monday 10th February  This week I have concentrated on my blog page in making sure
that the slideshare powerpoints are linked and images of my
work are added.
 Also I have continued to make my finalized improvements to my
main task production work.
Half term
Monday 24th February  We looked at the expectations for the evaluation and I received
feedback on what I need to include within my powerpoints to
earn more marks.
 I added comments to my log book explaining why I chose to
research Q magazine and included an introduction and
conclusion.
 I also added reflection comments on my survey monkey results.
 I added reflection notes to my questionnaire results and also
uploaded my sketches to the blog page; accompanied by
comments and why I made the decisions that I did.
 Over the weekend I need to have completed question 1 of the
evaluation.
Monday 3rd March  Today I have continued to work on completing my blog page.

6.  I have continued to add evidence of planning and research and
hand drawn drafts to my blog page with reflection comments.
Monday 17th March  Continued work on evaluation
Monday 24th March  Completed evaluation and uploaded to Prezi to be placed on the
blog page.