St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135

Candidate Name: Thomas Jericho SalangoCandidate Number: 1220

Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies

Schedule

Week Beginning Work CompletedMonday 31st August -Started preliminary task.

-Finished magazine front cover analysis.-Researching how to identify target audience and USP.

Monday 7th September -Finished analyzing magazine target audience and USP.-Researched magazines figures and readership.-Decided on chosen inspiration magazine design.-Starter working on audience profile and researching facts about magazine genre.

Monday 14th September - Completed mood board document- Completed ------- Updated my blog page recording my accomplihments for the

week and future tasks- Learnt how to analyse context page and double page spread

conventions- Began to annotate my own magazine of choice

Monday 21nd September - Began correcting my magazine masthead font powerpoint- Completed my survey monkey questionnaire; I still have yet to

receive replies.- Analysed survey monkey questionnaire results on a powerpoint

document.Monday 28th September -I have finished conducting research for my primary research

powerpoint by asking 20 people to complete a questionnaire- I have gathered photographic evidence to support the legitimacy of my face to face primary research.- I have analysed all said results and displayed them onto a powerpoint document.- I have started sketching out my design for my front cover on paper

Monday 5th October - I have begun working on my preliminary mind map for the school magazine; I have identified all of the conventions and type of camera shot.

- Corrected the dates on my schedule.- I’ve started working on my preliminary front cover starting from

a template; I’ve included the barcode and masthead. I will add more conventions in the future to add to the professionalism of the school magazine.

Monday 12th October - I have been working on my preliminary front cover, I’ve added more conventions including the price and date.

- I’ve added more gridlines to plan out where my future

conventions will be positioned.- In my free time I’ve been correcting my primary research

powerpoint, adding notes as to what the results mean and how I can use them in my own magazine.

- This lesson I added social media logos to my preliminary front cover, I added a smaller version fo the masthead near the barcode and again readjusted the gridlines.

Monday 19th October - This lesson I added a main headline as well as a website and a hashtag and edited the cover lines and masthead so that it could be read easier.

- Today I have added a puff promotion, more cover lines, a new header and as of now I have to complete my strapline.

- As of now I have completely finished my preliminary front cover; I added small images to my cover lines, readjusted my barcode and social media icons, updated my puff promotion to fill up empty space and made minor changes to perfectly present everything on the front cover. I still have yet to make amends to my coursework for my own music magazine; that I will be doing over the half term.

Half Term

Monday 2nd November - Over the half term I have completed my preliminary

contents page hand drawn draft. This lesson I started working on the actual contents page itself, I have duplicated layers to make it easier to edit whilst keeping the style consistent. I included the masthead and background from the previous front cover page. The due date of this task is Friday 13th November. I still have yet to take a photo for my music magazine front cover.

- Today I have added templates for my photos, a page number and web address for my preliminary contents page. I have also added a few stories for my exclusive stories contents.

- During yesterday's and today's lesson I have edited the editorial, drop capital and added an editorial photo to professionalize the contents page. I still have yet to add all of the content for the regular stories, exclusive stories and events as well as add pictures.

- Within this lesson I have added all of the contents for the regular and exclusive stories on my preliminary contents page. I have finished the editorial, I still have to add my signature and social media icons to add to the aestheticism of the page.

Monday 9th November - I've updated a lot of my contents page today; I added the signature and finished off the editorial, added some content for the events category and I am now

adding images suitable to the stories.- Today I finished all of thew content for my contents

magazine, I just have to add a few more photos and I'm finished.

- This lesson I have finally completed my preliminary front cover; I've made improvements to a few of my planning and research tasks as well.

Monday 16th November - This lesson I started working on my main task front cover; my chosen magazine of inspiration is VIBE. I've created a background, masthead, strapline and now i'm working on the barcode. I am looking to complete the bar code by next lesson.

- This lesson I started working on my main task front cover; my chosen magazine of inspiration is VIBE. I've created a background, masthead, strapline and now i'm working on the barcode. I am looking to complete the bar code by next lesson.

- During today's lesson I have added more conventions to my front cover; I've completed the barcode area, added a main headline, re edited my masthead, changing the font style, I added social media icons and a burst of smoke in the background. I still have yet to add my main image which will be of William Eze.

- This lesson I have been working on my main task front cover; I added my main image and a puff promotion. Now I'm working on the cover lines.

Monday 23th November - Today I have added more over lines, fixed the puff promotion and made small finishing touches to the whole thing. It is almost finished.

- After today's lesson I believe that I have completely finished my main task front over; over this lesson I was able to readjust the puff promotion and main headline. I also added another cover line featuring Drake to fill up the empty space on the right. I feel that there is still room for improvement on the cover line on the top left as the font and style contracts the ones on the right.

Monday 30th November - I have started working on my main task contents page; so far I've added a background, masthead logo and the issue date.

Monday 7th December - This lesson I was able to finish typing my editorial; I just need to add an editorial photo along with the social media icons and signature. I have started adding contents for my page.

- Today I was able to add a few feature stories as contents on my page; I also added an editorial photo, signature and social media icons. I used the original artist fonts to represent their names as it looks much more professional. I still have yet to take a photo of someone to fill the space in the middle, as well as the task of adding contents to my fashion heading.

Monday 15th DecemberChristmas Holidays