Megan created a mock newspaper over the course of several months, documenting her progress in weekly updates. She engaged in extensive pre-production work like analyzing real newspaper styles and formats. During production, Megan designed layouts, wrote articles, and edited images for her mock newspaper pages in Photoshop. She also recorded a radio advertisement. In her final updates, Megan wrote an evaluation of her process and posted her completed newspaper and other materials to her blog.

1. A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
Megan Summers PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible
Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)
September 2012
(Detailed Monthly
Summary)
Pre-Production: I created my blog and I started to think about what
type of newspaper I want to create for my final piece, I decided to
do a broadsheet newspaper but that my research would still focus
around both tabloid and broadsheet. I have gathered images of
various newspaper billboard advertisements and have begun to
analyse the various techniques and features of billboards when
they advertise newspapers.
Next month, I will finish my newspaper billboard
analysis and also begin the analysis of radio
advertisements for my second ancillary task. I will use
you tube to find the radio advertisements as otherwise I
believe they may be difficult to find.
October 2012
(Detailed Monthly
Summary)
Pre-Production: I finished my analysis of newspaper billboards and
used you tube to find various examples of radio advertisements. I
put the links for these onto a word document and then underneath
the links I wrote a bullet point paragraph about the similarities all
the radio adverts have and also the differences depending on their
target audience. This month I also started planning what my own
billboard newspaper advert will look like, I then created this in
Photoshop.
Next month, I will start to write my radio advert script, I
think a problem that could arise from this is that it may
be difficult to keep the advert from being too short or
being too long. I will try to write it while saying it out
loud in the way I will record it so make sure I keep to the
thirty second time frame.
November 2012
(Detailed Monthly
Summary)
Pre-Production: I wrote my radio advert script and gathered
images of various front pages from local newspapers since a local
newspaper is one that I will be creating for my final piece. Then I
analysed these newspaper front pages – picking out key
conventions that are used on all front pages and also key things
that are more specific to broadsheet newspapers. I also made a
powerpoint of distinctive differences between tabloid and
broadsheet newspapers.
Next month, I will start to plan the details of my final
newspaper piece by trying to think of names and coming
up with plans of what my layout will look like, there may
be an issue when trying to make the aspects of my
newspaper original(such as not choosing a name of a
newspaper that already exists). I will try to overcome
this problem by researching the names of newspapers
and making sure I don’t choose one too similar to
another.
December 2012
(Detailed Monthly
Summary)
Pre-Production: I created a mock layout plan for my front page
which follows the conventions of usual front page newspapers but
also diverts from stereotypical broadsheet newspapers. I have also
written an essay commenting on how I have used audience theory
research while directing my target audience.
Over the holiday I plan to research different newspaper
stories and headlines to help with deciding type of story
that I will create. I will also note the way they word
headlines and the way the articles are told. I will also go
out and plan the type of scene/area I will be taking the
photographs that will go on my front page.

2. A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
Mon W/B 07/01/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Pre Production: I began putting all the ideas I have for my
newspaper down onto a mind map. So far I have noted down types
of stories and the way I would want the stories to be written on
this map. Over the holidays, I looked at the ideas I have for articles
I could write and took images based around these ideas. I also did
research into the way most articles are written so I could be sure
to emulate this in my own articles.
Mon W/B 14/01/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Pre Production: I completed the mind map which details all the
ideas I could possibly include while making my magazine. I also
made a market research questionnaire which I gave out to ten
people to fill in.
Next week, I will write all the ideas from my mind map
into a report. I will also write a market research report
which will include pie charts of the responses I received
from my questionnaires.
Mon W/B 21/01/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Pre Production: I have written my ideas from my mind map up into
a report; I have made it more clear what the ideas mean and how
they will be presented within my newspaper. I have also begun to
write my market research report based on the results from the
questionnaires I handed out last week.
Next week I aim to finish my market research report and
to continue making the layout plans for both my front
page and my second page.
Mon W/B 28/01/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Pre Production: I have finished my idea generation report which
collates all the information that I received by doing my market
research. I also continued creating the front and second page
mock layouts, I have completed three front page plans and so far
one of my second page layout plans.
Next week I aim to finish the last of my layout plans for
my second page . I will then proceed to write the
newspaper articles which I will include in my final
newspaper. While writing these I anticipate that I will
have problems with making them short enough to fit a
few onto the same page but also making sure they are
detailed.
Mon W/B 04/02/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: I finished the last of the layout plans and have put
them all onto my blog. I began to and finished writing the articles
which I will include in my newspaper, I have two main, longer
articles and a few smaller ones to include on the second page of
my newspaper.
Next week I will begin to manipulate the images I have
taken on Photoshop, I will also begin to actually create
my newspaper.
Mon W/B 11/02/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: I manipulated my images in Photoshop to make sure
they fit the articles I have written more appropriately.
I decided to create my second page before my front page so that I
could get a feel for the colour scheme and general layout before I
Next week I shall continue to create the second page of
my newspaper. I hope to finish the second page next
week but I do anticipate that maybe problems may
occur in having to cut down the words of the article to

3. A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
began my first page. The first thing I did was create the banner at
the top of the page - this was an idea I imitated from various
second pages of real newspapers. I then proceeded to create the
holiday advertisement in the top right hand corner of the page.
ensure they fit correctly onto the page,
Mon W/B 18/02/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: This week I have placed two of my articles onto the
second page, I did anticipate a problem in the length of the
articles and I overcame it easily by cutting out the less important
pieces of information. I also had a problem at first with lining all
the text up correctly, I played around with the aligning tools on
Photoshop before I found the correct one.
Next week I hope to finish my second page by putting on
my third story.
Mon W/B 25/02/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: I put my third story onto my second page. When I
looked over the layout of the page I decided it looked too
squashed together so I reduced the size of the text and resized
the images. I also linked everything on the page together on
Photoshop and moved it all upwards slightly.
Next week I will begin my front page. Now that I know
how difficult it is to get a realistic looking layout I am
anticipating that my front page will need a lot of work to
look authentic.
Mon W/B 04/03/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: This week I continued editing the second page of my
newspaper, I moved some of the images and text around to a
slightly different layout which makes the page look more realistic
as a newspaper. I began with the front page of my newspaper, I
focused mainly on the masthead and the top of the page which
includes information such as date and price , I tried to make it look
as conventional as possible.
Next week I shall continue with my front page, I hope to
have the text of my article on the page.
Mon W/B 11/03/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: I have finished the top of my page and have included
a banner as a puff to another story. I then continued to copy the
text of my article onto the page.
Next week I hope to find a suitable layout for my text
which gives enough room for a headline and image to
be placed above. I want to finish my front page so that I
can go on to write my evaluation.
Mon W/B 18/03/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: This week I added my image above the text of the
image, I also found a layout which allows all the text of my article
to be in aligned columns. I began to create the advertisement on
the side of the page and got the idea for this newspaper incentive
from other newspapers I analysed during my market research.
Next week I hope to finish my front page and begin to
write my evaluation.

4. A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
Mon W/B 01/04/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: This week I finished my front page, I completed the
advertisement incentive down the side of the page and I added the
headline to the page.
This week I also recorded the vocals for my radio advertisement
which I wrote earlier, using a voice recorder,
Next week I shall finish the editing of my radio
advertisement and then write my evaluation. I am
concerned that I will not be able to find a suitable
backing track for my radio advertisement, in which case
I will just have to try to make it as authentic as possible.
Mon W/B 08/04/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Production: This week I finished the editing of my radio
advertisement.I then proceeded to put my construction and final
newspaper onto my blog along with my completed radio advert.
Over the weekend I will write my evaluation focusing on
all the four questions so that next week during lesson
time I can work on presenting my evaluation in various
ways.
Mon W/B 15/04/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Post Production: Over the weekend I finished the writing of my
evaluation and this week I have have created a Prezi powerpoint
for two of my evaluation questions, I have also created a regular
office powerpoint for the third question.
Over the weekend I will record a voice recording of a
fourth question.
Mon W/B 22/04/13
(Detailed Weekly
Summary)
Post Production: I recorded a voice recording and uploaded it to
soundcloud to embed onto my blog. Along with my powerpoints
and recording I have embedded a regular word post with all of my
evaluation questions and answers onto my blog.
PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible
Contingency Plans)