This document outlines a student's schedule and progress over several months completing assignments for a Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies course. It details the weekly work completed, including creating blog pages, worksheets, questionnaires, magazine covers, contents pages, and double page spreads. It also notes completing corrections, evaluations, and uploading work to slide sharing platforms. The goal was to research, plan, design and create examples of magazine pages to demonstrate understanding of audience and publication design.

1. St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770
Candidate Name: Syan Magahy
Candidate Number: 6446
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays  Throughout the summer holidays, I had homework set which
was to annotate a magazine with what makes it a good music
magazine. This helped me understand the importance of a music
magazine, and the essential parts that makes it good.
Monday 9th September  Throughout this week, I have created my blog page by adding an
annotation on slide 11 of it about a pacific music magazine.
 I also assessed previous work from last year and included a
‘WWW’ and ‘EBI’. This helped me, as now I know the
expectations and standards to work up to.
Monday 16th September  In this lesson today, I have learnt the three main aspects that

2. include in a music magazine which targets the audience which
are Katz’ uses and Gratification, Heartly’s Seven Subjectivities
and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
 I also completed a worksheet that spoke about the target
audience to my chosen magazine which were gender, age, socio-
economic needs and why, katz’ uses and gratifications theory
and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and stereotypes.
 I also took a picture of Abbie Folwer, which shows the
stereotypical reader of my chosen magazine, printed it out and
stuck it on my worksheet.
 Throughout the week, I have also done my homework which
were to complete my blog that included the cover page, contents
and double spread page
 Also, I completed slide 13 on my log book and evolution
Monday 23rd September  Throughout the time from my last update on the schedule,
completed another slide to my logbook, which was slide 10. I
also, used time outside of lesson to do it for homework.
 I also created a questionnaire, which allowed me to make
questions for people to answer on Survey Monkey.
 I also annotated a magazine from a student last year to
understand what I needed to include when making my school
magazine.
 I then started a mind map of names I would like to use for my
school magazine.

3.  I started on a sketch front cover.
 Throughout the week, I took a picture of the student that is used
for my main image on my magazine front cover
 I have also finished my preliminary hand drawn task, I also
found a name for my school magazine
 In the lesson, I started using Photoshop and started on my front
cover of my school magazine
 When starting my front cover magazine, I learnt most of the tools
that I need to
Monday 30th September  Throughout the week, I went to an academy class to learn how to
use Photoshop
 I had to complete my survey monkey with all my results from my
questions, print screen them and put them in my power point to
show evidence and print them out to scan them
 I then kept on completing my school magazine front cover so I
can get as much done as I can
 My deadline for my front cover is Wednesday 9th October
Monday 7th October  I have finished my front cover for the deadline
 I learnt loads of different things when using Photoshop, so I can
do as well as I can when doing it
Monday 14th October  I collected my corrections for my front cover and completed it to
my best ability
 I started to look at different examples from the previous years to
see how they did

4.  I also annotated someone’s work from the previous year so I can
understand what things I need to include when doing my
contents their contents page
 I then did my hand drawn draft for my contents page using
different ideas from previous years and also from the example
that was already saved.
 I have now started on my contents page, by doing the 6
conventions that I was told to do to start with.
Such as -
Editorial
Picture of editor (me)
Page number and web address
Editor details
My signature
Cover stories
 Once I done the conventions I was meant to do, I ticked them off
from my checklist
Monday 21st October  I had to finish of my contents page, I did do things wrong, but re
done them so it will look much better
 I didn’t finish the contents page at the end of the lesson so I will
use my free time to finish off my contents page
Half Term

5. Monday 4th November In my lesson, I started to think about what kind of Mastheads I might
want for my Pop Magazine front cover, and it was ‘Pop Perfect’ I then
found a perfect font on defont.com which was a good font as it fitted
well in my genre of magazine which was pop. I then completed my
hand drawn draft of my pop magazine.
Monday 11th November In this particular lesson, I have started on my official music magazine
front cover by starting with the first 6 conventions such as, barcode,
issue, date, price, social networking link and the puff. This has given
me a good head start with my magazine so I can complete it in good
time. In another lesson from the same week, I have completed another
4 conventions, which were 3 cover lines, strap line, web address and
headline. As I completed all these in my double lesson, I am now
organized with my work. From now till next lesson, I should have take
my pictures for my main image and all cover photos so that I will then
be organized to have the pictures ready for my next lesson.
Monday 18th November In this lesson, I have done added more to my blog page as that had
corrections that were needed to be done, also done a few corrections
on my PowerPoint and will have the pictures for my front cover my
Friday.
I have also completed my front cover.
Monday 25th November In this double lesson, I have started on my hand drawn draft in order
to help me be organized and will help me know what to do when it
comes to my real main task contents page. I have also been given back
my corrections needed for previous coursework such as my main task
front cover etc. All these corrections need to be done in my own time

6. during the week. Also, in this double lesson I have started the basics
for my main task contents page in order to help me give a head start
when I come back to it next lesson. For this double lesson, I have done
all my cover lines and the sub lines in full detail, added in my web
address and signature and started on my editorial, by next lesson I
will have my pictures for one of my cover lines and a picture of me for
my editorial and place in my front cover then I will have completed
my contents page.
Monday 2nd December I have completed my editorial in word and then added it onto my
contents page and I also included my main task front cover into my
contents page so that it looks more effective. As well as adding my
editorial, made the first letter of my editorial which was ‘W’ to
welcome in and made it with the same font style as the name of my
magazine.
Monday 9th December In this lesson I have added both of my photos for my contents page
which one was a picture of me for my editorial and another with
Selena Gomez representing her new lipstick which people could win.
Monday 16th December In this lesson I had created a slide share account for me when it comes
to the end of getting all my coursework finished and then inserting
them on to slide shares so it can be more well presented and more
easier to read if all my work were to be on slide share and then
uploaded on my blog page.
Christmas Holidays
Monday 6th January In this double lesson, I collected my corrections
for my contents page so I know what I have to

7. during next week as I will be using my free time
and staying after school. Also, I have finished my
hand drawn draft for my double page spread for
my main task and started a few of the
conventions that I need so it will help start me off
once I start the double page spread. However, I
have completed my contents page.
Friday 17th January In this double lesson I have only completed a few
conventions which were adding my interviews to
the columns I had made by using the pen tool, I
have also added a box in the middle of my
columns which include an important quote for
Selena which can attracts the readers. I have also
added the masthead, which was duplicated, from
my previous main task front cover.
Monday 20th January In this lesson, I have made improvements to my
double page spread, which could help me give
better results once I have finished. The
improvement I had made was adding my drop
capital on my double page spread to make the
text more effective. I have completed my double
page spread in this time.
Friday 14th February In this double lesson, I have used the time to
complete all my corrections for my main task
contents page. I have also added my planning and

8. research on slide share and then imbedded the
slide share on my blog page. I have also done the
same with my logbook.
Monday 23rd February In this lesson, as a close, we have gone through
the evaluation expectations and the deadline for
it. I have also completed half of my corrections for
my double page spread.
Wednesday 26th February In this double lesson, I have completed my
corrections for my double page and I have also
started on my evaluation.
Friday 28th February In this double lesson, I have carried on with
completing my evaluation. I haven’t finished it
yet, however, I will be using my free lessons to try
and complete it and also on my Monday lesson
and my Wednesday double lesson.
Monday 3rd March In this lesson, I have kept on completing my
evaluation; it still isn’t finished; however I have
completed the first three questions/slides. I have
also completed my first slide of the analysis of my
magazine pages, which is my front cover. What I
have left to do is to complete the last four
questions, planning of photography, audience
feedback and the rest of my analysis of my other
two pages.
Wednesday 5th March In this lesson, I carried on completing my

9. evaluation; I have completed the next two
questions and completed my slide of analysing
my contents page. I still need to update my blog
page.
Friday 7th March In this lesson, I have used my slide share account
and added my audience profile and log book onto
my blog page. I have also done the same with my
hand drawn drafts for my main task and prelim
task and updated it on my blog page.
Wednesday 12th March In this lesson, I have carried on with my
evaluation; I have finished another question,
which was question 5.
Monday 17th March In this lesson, I have completed all my questions
for my evaluation, but need to still complete the
rest of the slides.
Wednesday 19th March In this lesson, I have completed all the rest of the
slides for my evaluation including audience
feedback and planning photography and have
uploaded it onto Prezi.