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1. St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135
Candidate Name: Zakary Winsall
Candidate Number: 2144
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 1st September
Monday 8th September Monday 8th September
Learnt about the front cover codes & conventions.
The start of the planning stage.
Thursday 11th September
I have learnt about target audience theories.
Started completing the target audience for Q Magazine.
Monday 15th September Monday 15th September
Today I have started to set up my blog page. I have chosen an
2. appropriate theme as well as adding a base template to format my
work.
Thursday 18th September
I have started working on my target audience for my new magazine.
I have also yet to create my survey on SurveyMonkey.
Friday 19th September
I have completed writing up about my target audience and have also
finished creating the survey on SurveyMonkey. I am still waiting to get
an image of my typical reader.
Annotated the prelim task codes and conventions as well as what
default design we must have on the magazine cover.
Monday 22nd September Monday 22nd September
Finished the hard copy questionnaire to hand out.
Started mind-mapping ideas for my music magazine and learn a few
basics skills on Photoshop in order to create a successful front cover.
Thursday 25th September
Learnt some skills in photoshop and started to design the front cover
for the preliminary task.
Monday 29th September Thursday 2nd October
Made significant progress on to prelim front cover, I have added
conventions such as the barcode, social media, masthead and main
headline on the front cover. Need to also take a picture of my sister to
use as the main image.
Friday 3rd October
I have taken the picture of my sister for the prelim cover and have
3. added it to the photoshop file. I also took a picture of my target
audience for the main profile.
I have also presented my SurveyMonkey results on powerpoint. I also
need to present my questionnaire results.
Monday 6th October Monday 6th October
Fully completed presenting my SurveyMonkey results, Pretty much
neatly finished my Prelim Front Cover.
Thursday 9th October
Completed by Prelim front cover. I have also started on my Masthead
fonts for my main task, along with a prop list for the main task. I have
also started making some edits to previously completed work for
more detail.
Monday 13th October Monday 13th October
Learnt about the Contents Page conventions and completed
presenting my questionnaire results.
Thursday 16th October
I have started to create the layout for my prelim contents page, by
dragging across features from the prelim front cover. I have also
looked at some exemplar work in order to get a proper idea of how
the contents page is supposed to look.
Friday 17th October
I have started to add some of the features onto my contents page. I
have added a copy of my front cover onto the page, along with starting
to set the different sections out.
4. Monday 20th October Monday 20th October
I have almost finished my prelim contents page, all I need to do now is
to put all the stories on and also a few anchoring images.
Thursday 23rd October
I have fully completed my prelim contents page and only need to make
a couple of changes to my editorial.
Half Term
Monday 3rd November Monday 3rd November
I have been given back some corrections for my prelim contents page
and have started to amend some of the issues with it. I still need to
take a few more images in order to fully complete it.
Thursday 6th November
I have worked on trying to complete my Mind Map for the main task; I
had to update it as I had a hard time trying to choose names and
connotations behind it for the magazine.
Friday 7th November
I have fully completed my prelim contents page by adding the image of
Mr Brooks.
I have also been working on my main task mind map. The only slides
needing to be completed on it now is the strapline language and the
font styles.
Monday 10th November Monday 10th November
Have almost finished my mind-map, just thinking on some more ideas
5. for the strapline to properly fit the audience and purpose.
Thursday 13th November
I have started on my music magazine front cover and managed to get
the basic conventions added, which included the masthead, the
barcode and a few of the cover lines in a similar fashion to XXL
magazine.
I also finished my mind-map completely and have uploaded it onto my
blog.
Monday 17th November Thursday 20th November
I have worked on my contents page and added some more of the basic
features. I have also been working to get together some of the props
for Friday’s photoshoot.
Friday 21st November
I went to the photoshoot afterschool and took a lot of pictures that I
could choose from to use on my front cover.
Monday 24th November Monday 24th November
I have placed the image I want to use on my front cover and have been
carefully going around the edges to remove all of the background so
that I get a better finish to the image.
Wednesday 26th November
I started refining my main image by adding details such as tattoos.
Currently just experimenting with it, as it may not actually turn out
very well.
Thursday 27th November
Whilst working on my image I have decided that there is not enough
6. attitude in Jack’s facial expression. So I will be trying to retake the
image again when I get the chance to.
Monday 1st December Monday 1st December
I have worked on my contents page and started adding some details
on it such as the cover story and started the layout for the stories and
sublines.
Thursday 4th December
Worked on my production plan that should have been completed a
while ago, however it is now nearly completed.
Took pictures again for my front cover to better illustrate the genre.
Monday 8th December Monday 8th December
I have completed both my production plan and my photoshoot plan,
which again should have been completed a while back.
I have now properly started working on my contents page adding in
content to the basic layout.
Thursday 11th December
I have of course continued working on my contents page and now
have started working out the stories and sublines that will be on the
page. This included trying to invent some story lines and short
sublines as well as the different fonts to be used on it.
I also set the basic layout for my editorial.
Monday 15th December Monday 15th December
I have added around half of the stories onto my contents page at this
time, playing around with the text sizes and spacing it order to get the
correct effect.
7. Thursday 18th December
I have finally completed adding the stories on my contents page, and I
also have started on my editorial text.
Christmas Holidays
Monday 5th January Monday 5th January
I have now completed around half of my editorial and inserted it onto
my editorial page in order to gauge how detailed it is so far. This is
actually proving to be quite a struggle for me as it is unusual to type in
that type of language.
Thursday 8th January
I have worked on my magazine flat plan which was previously
completed; however I decided to redo it on PowerPoint in order to
make it look more professional.
Monday 12th January Monday 12th January
Today I have worked towards writing up the content for my Double
Page Spread. I looked through my actual issue of XXL I order to gauge
was sort of content I should add for my DPS.
Thursday 15th January
I worked some more on my editorial page today by adding the Roles
and Responsibilities of the magazine onto the left side of the page in a
similar fashion to XXL.
Friday 16th January
Last night I retook the images for all of my pages with my smartphone.
8. I was told my Mr Crafts it would be ideal if they were taken again in a
photography studio and professional camera to achieve a higher
quality image. Instead I completed all of the features of my Contents
and Editorial pages and is now just waiting the final images to be
placed onto the page.
Monday 19th January Monday 19th January
Thursday 22nd January
Today I worked on the layout of my DPS. I did this by adding 3
columns on each of the pages and added text boxes to add in the
content for my DPS Interview. I’ve added the page details at the
bottom of each page and finally added a black box to separate the
content and what will be the pull quote.
Monday 26th January Monday 26th January
I have fully completed my DPS interview and it is now added onto the
page.
Thursday 29th January
Today I have again worked on my DPS and changed the colours of the
questions to red instead of black. I also added in some social media
logos. Hopefully later on today I will be taking the pictures for this
page.
Monday 2nd February Monday 2nd February
Today here was a matter of taking the final image and editing it in
photoshop to achieve the effect I believe was most suited for this page.
However when imported to InDesign I had some trouble with the
9. quality of the image and the edges were not as smooth as I wanted to
so I had to go back into photoshop and re-edit the image.
Thursday 5th February
Today I have worked on getting the final touches done on my
magazine pages. I have done this by going through it with my teacher
and he has given me feedback. I quickly applied this feedback to my
pages.
Monday 9th February Monday 9th – Thursday 12th February
Mock Exams all week, coursework has been unable to be completed.
Friday 13th February
Today I have spent a whole day working on the coursework trying to
get it all completed before half term. I believe that I have finish all of
my pages and it is a matter of asking Mr Crafts to mark them so I can
make any corrections over half term.
Half Term
Monday 23rd February Thursday 25th February
I finished the corrections for my pages and have been trying to save
them so I can finally upload them onto my blog page.
Monday 30th February Wednesday 4th March
I have started on both evaluation Question 1 and 2, making a script in
word so that during the Easter break I can properly make the
10. evaluation into its proper forms.
Thursday 5th February
Today I have worked on continuing with my evaluation of my
magazine; however I have also worked to add all of my coursework
onto the blog page.
