St. Andrew’s Catholic School 64135

Candidate Name: Charlie BatchelerCandidate Number: 1016

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- Updated my blog page recording my accomplihments for the

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

conventions

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- I’ve gathered photographic evidence to support it- I have analysed all results and displayed them onto a powerpoint doc- I have started sketching out my design for my front cover

Monday 5th October - Begun working on my preliminary mind map for the school magazine

- 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 soon

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

- In my free time I’ve been correcting my primary research powerpoint

- This lesson I added social media logos to my preliminary front cover, I added a smaller version for the masthead near the barcode

Monday 19th October - 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

- Today I have added a puff promotion, more cover

lines, a new header and 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

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 cover 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