St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770 Candidate Name: Hannah D’Souza Candidate Number: 6827

Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies

Schedule

Week Beginning Work Completed Summer Holidays Bought a magazine, and annotated the front cover, contents page and

a double page spread of an article. Monday 9th September Learnt about different shot types. Analysed the front cover for ‘Vibe’

magazine and then started our production log by annotating the codes and conventions the front cover of my magazine of inspiration. I also looked at other examples of previous magazines created and gave them a WWW and EBI.

Monday 16th September Learnt about the issues raised by media ownership. Learnt about Katz, Maslow and Hartley’s theories and filled in an Audience Profile sheet about our magazine. Completed both slides on the target audience for

Q magazine and my own magazine.Created a survey on ‘Survey Monkey’.

Monday 23rd September Opened Photoshop and brainstormed name ideas for our school magazine. It was hard coming up with a name but I managed to come up with ‘Maroon Monthly’ for the Preliminary Task.

Started with our hand drawn drafts. Updated the front cover of my magazine by added the masthead,

social networking links, the web address and barcode, date and issue number.

Monday 30th September Continued with my magazine front cover. Visited an Academy class in London and learnt faster ways to use Photoshop. Friday, updated my front cover by adding a competition, and cover lines to it.

Monday 7th October Deadline for preliminary front cover was on Wednesday 9th October. I managed to complete my front cover by this lesson, and included all that I had to, to achieve the highest possible grade. I found using the ‘quick selection tool’ quite hard, but learnt to do it well by then.

Monday 14th October On Monday’s lessons, we learnt about the exam. On Wednesday, I drew my hand drawn draft for the contents

page of my magazine and started creating my contents page on Photoshop.

On Fridays double lesson, I carried on with creating the contents page for my magazine. However, I didn’t manage to complete all six tasks in the lesson; hence why I will be coming back in my free lessons and during lunch to meet the deadline which is next

Friday. Monday 21st October Today, I made some more corrections to the front cover of my

magazine. Although, I didn’t manage to complete all of them. I also wrote out the editor’s letter for my contents page and added the contents as well. However, I didn’t complete my contents page completely. Therefore, I will be coming back in my frees to complete the work.

Half Term Monday 4th November This week, we moved on to our Music Magazine. In the double lesson

on Wednesday, I brainstormed names for my magazine and finally came up with the name ‘Melody’. I used a font style from dafont.com and now have a name with a font for my magazine front cover.

Monday 11th November Started the front cover of my music magazine. I managed to complete the tasks set, which were the barcode, social networking sites, price, date and issue number and a puff. On Friday, the 15th, I continued creating the front cover of my music magazine. I managed to add some effects to my puff and my price and created the web address, strapline and masthead as well.

Monday 18th November Added smaller images to the front cover and wrote out a few cover lines. Changed some conventions of my magazine as well. As the deadline is on Friday, and because I still have a lot to add to my front cover, I will be coming back in my free lessons. Finished my magazine on Friday and met my deadlines as I stayed after school to complete it.

Monday 25th November Started on the contents page of my magazine.

I drew out my hand drawn draft with some inspiration from my magazine of inspiration.

Then, I opened Photoshop and started creating my contents page and managed to add the web address, page number to it. On the 29th, I carried on with my contents page. I managed to create section headings within the contents page.

I added the magazine logo onto each section as well to promote the magazine brand.

Monday 2nd December This week, I carried on producing my contents page. I wrote out my editors letter on word to make sure I spelt everything correctly as Photoshop doesn’t have spellcheck. I then used the pen tool to insert the editor’s letter onto the contents page and added an editors photo and editors details along with my signature.

Monday 9th December On Wednesday, I added the cover line stories in the allocated columns. Below each cover line I also add sub-lines to give the reader a little more information about the article or story.

Monday 16th December On Friday the 20th, I inserted more images that I took on Wednesday the 18th so that the audience gets variety and to keep the audience interested in the magazine as well. I also took a screen grab of my front cover and inserted it to the left of my contents page and added arrows to show what article is on what page so that its easier for the reader to access.

Christmas Holidays

Monday 6th January I completed the corrections to my contents page and started with

the double spread page of my magazine. I also drew out my hand drawn draft for it to help me in creating

the page. Monday 13th January I continued creating my double spread page. I took the pictures for it,

and cropped them and edited them to insert into my double page. I also added effects to it and created columns for the page.

Monday 20th January I added in colour to my hand drawn draft to help me know what colours to put on my double page spread. I also carried on with my double page spread by adding more images and the interview for my story.

Monday 10th February I completed my double page spread and began adding resources to my blog page. This included the use of slide share as well.

Monday 24th February This week I focused on my blog page. I added my magazine pages to it and updated my logbook and inserted it on there through Slideshare. I also started completing my evaluation by analysing my magazine pages.

Monday 3rd March I updated my blog page by analysing another magazine of my chosen genre which in this case was ‘We love Pop’ to show variety within the genre.

I also analysed my own magazine on the evaluation PowerPoint and evaluated the photography planning of all my magazine pages.

Monday 10th March I completed 2 out of 7 questions for my evaluation. I made sure the answers were in detail and created a feedback survey for my magazine using survey monkey.

Monday 17th March This week I completed 3 more of the questions for my evaluation and took screenshots of the conversations I had with my models for evidence and inserted it into the evaluation as well. I also sent out my survey monkey feedback and waited for responses.

Monday 24th March This week the final copy of my evaluation through Prezi was due. However, I still had 2 more questions to complete and the results gathered from my survey monkey questionnaire weren’t accurate. Therefore, I decided to create a video of the audience feedback. In order to do this and complete the remaining questions, I am going to have to stay after school to get it done to the highest standard possible.

Monday 31st March Finished all my coursework, including adding the final bits to the blog page, the planning and research and evaluation and all the corrections of my magazine in order to achieve the highest grade possible.