St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135

Candidate Name: Elizabeth PlumbCandidate Number:

Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies

Schedule

Week Beginning Work Completed

Summer HolidaysMonday 1st September I have learnt about the basic codes and conventions of a music magazineMonday 8th September We went into more in-depth of what codes and conventions are in a music

magazine and now I know many more and how to annotate the magazine I have learnt about what types of theory that I need to include when talking about the magazines target audience. (Hartley, Katz and Maslow)

Monday 15th September Today I annoted my chosen magazine on the PowerPoint and I also completed my publisher research. In class I made my WordPress account and I aim to make it very girly as my magazine of inspiration is ‘We love pop’ Today I learnt how to create a Survey Monkey, however I need to create it at home. I also managed to finish my annotations for my magazine of inspiration in class, and I also finished my audience profile.

Today I learnt what type of image to include on my magazine (medium close up), I also learnt how to annotate with codes and conventions a school magazine.

Monday 22nd September Today I learnt how to use Photoshop to make my magazine look professional.Started my preliminary front cover and added in a barcode with social media

Monday 29th September I have finished my improvements of my coursework for homework. I have added a masthead and main cover story on my preliminary front cover; I still need to take photos for the cover stories.

Monday 6th October Today I edited my main cover photo for my pre-lim front cover. Now I need to take other photos for the other cover storiesToday I made sure that my pre-lim front cover was done and did a few changes to the main photo.

Monday 13th October Today I have started my contents page in Photoshop; I also referred back to my hand drawn draft of the contents page to help me design it.Today I completed my editorial and added that into my preliminary contents page, I have also added in my signature and a few pictures.

Monday 20th October Today I finished my contents page in Photoshop.Half Term

Monday 3rd November Today I got back my corrections for my contents page preliminary task and started to finish themToday I finished the corrections for my preliminary contents page, and I also have almost finished all my homework corrections.Today I finished all of my corrections for my homework; therefore I can start to plan my pop magazine front cover on Photoshop.

Monday 10th November Today I made sure that I started my front cover page in Photoshop, I also added some final touches to my preliminary homework.

Today I started to do my front cover for my main task, I added in my masthead and I also added in the barcode. Whilst doing this I added ruler lines so I would then know exactly where everything should go on the page.

Monday 17th November Today I started my front cover for my pop magazine, by adding in photos and editing themToday I added some cover lines, and added the stroke effect to the text of the cover line, I also included a few front cover conventions for the magazine, these being, the masthead and cover lines.

Monday 24th November Today I managed to finish my cover lines, over the weekend I also took photos for the cover lines, therefore next lesson I will include them and I will also edit them to look like a professional magazine. To do this I will use Photoshop.Today I finished my front cover however over the weekend I will make sure I perfect the editing of the photos

Monday 1st December Today I finished my front cover main task. I now have a few corrections to complete by Thursdays deadline. I now need to start creating my contents page main task; therefore I will need to take some more photos for them.

Monday 8th December Today I started my contents page, I made sure that I completed the page number/web address, the editorial and signature as well as the overall layout for the contents pages cover lines with photos.Today I finished my layout for my contents page, I added a gradient for the background and I also started to edit the photos for the cover lines.

Monday 15th December This week I have edited the photos on my main colour contents page. I plan to add a background to the photos once I have fully edited the photos of the people that I took.

Christmas Holidays

Monday 12th January Today I have finished my contents page. By finishing it I have made sure that I had edited the photos for the cover stories and that my house style is correct within the front cover and contents page. By doing this I included the same pinks, purples and yellows.Today I made a start on my corrections for my planning and research. This is helpful because it means that I can then upload them to my WordPress account. I will then make sure that I have finished my corrections by my next lesson.

Monday 19th January Today I finished my corrections for my Contents Page.Today I have started my double page spread on InDesign, I have included the text interview and the photos, and I have also done a Drop Capital.

Monday 26th January Today I finished editing my photos.Monday 2nd February Today I started my Double Page Spread by adding in my edited image from

Photoshop and also changing the background colour to a pink gradient as with the Contents Page.Today I added in my interview for the text of the double page spread. And I also added in my pull quote into one of the columnsToday I made the finishing touches to my double page spread, I added in some more pull quotes and I also added in some extra styles to attract my target audience ‘forever Taylor’.

Monday 9th February Today I added the same colour scheme as my front cover and double page spread, this will make it look professional and keep in the same collectionToday I made sure that my double page spread was good having made all the corrections

Monday 16th February Today I uploaded my double page spread onto my blog pageToday I changed the design on my blog page to suit the needs of the target audience so I made the background pink to connote the teen girls.

Monday 23rd February Today I started my Evaluation question 1 on a word document

Today I started my Evaluation question 2 on a word documentMonday 2nd March Today I completed question 3-5

Today I completed question 6-7Monday 9th March Today I made the right corrections to my question 1

Today I carried on making the corrections for my question 1Monday 16th March Today I finished corrections to question 2-4

Today I finished correction to questions 5-7Monday 23rd March Today I made sure I made all the corrections to my evaluation tasks so that over the

Easter break I could present them in different formats.