Schedule

Schedule

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  St. Andrew’s CatholicSchool 64135 Candidate Name: Jonathan Sheehan Candidate Number:2127 Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies Schedule Week Beginning Work Completed Monday 8th September • I have learnt some basic research about music magazines which began my research. • Also I have found out further about the types of features which make up the front cover of a magazine. • Today I have learn much about the different analyzing techniques involved in the target audience for music magazines and specialized this to my work. Monday 15th September • in my free lesson today I completed my information for ‘CLASH’and ‘Q’ magazine, listing what makes their USP and target audience. In the lesson I created my WordPress account which will hold all of my work which I am very impressed with as it is free and gives the creator a lot of freedom to edit to my liking. • Today I started my audience profile and set up my Survey Monkey to the public what they want form my magazine.
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  • Today Ihave learnt further about the current task and have identified the ideas that I have and want to produce. I have also nearly completed my survey monkey ready for publishing and I have also nearly finished my PowerPoint which I can upload to slide share and then further to my WordPress. Monday 22nd September • Today we learnt some basic Photoshop skills in order to make our practice front cover, which we have started. Monday 29th September • Today I have learnt many key features of Photoshop and have started many key features of the front cover, such as the masthead and main picture. • Today I have completed other factors of my front cover, these include the date, issue, social media and price. Monday 6th October • In this lesson I completed more feature to do with my website and made sure that everything is up to standard. • I have completed my puff promotion, website name and cover lines. Monday 13th October • Learnt about the different tasks in which I have to complete. • Today’s lesson I started my contents page and added features, such as the title, sub headings and the issue date for the copy of the magazine. • Today I got more features completed on the contents page and created a blog post. • The page numbers and editorial was completed today. • Today I have nearly completed my contents page, a couple of more features added and it will be completed! Monday 20th October HALF TERM Monday 3rd November I have now finished my contents page, survey monkey and questionnaire results and are ready to upload.
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  Monday 10th November Bothmind maps have now been finished, along with my mood boards and ideas pages. Monday 17th November I have uploaded most of my finished work to my blog site and I now have three posts. Monday 24th November I have started my main front cover and have finished many of the conventions to make it look like CLASH magazine. The photos have been taken to a high quality. Monday 1st December I have completed most of my front cover. There is the main convention that I have still to complete and that is the editing of my photograph. I aim to get this done very soon. Monday 8th December I have started my contents page and have completed the basic layout, signature for my editorial, date, web address, page number and background. • I have now completed many of my cover stories as well as the layout of my editorial. Monday 15th December • Now I have nearly completed the contents page. All I have to complete is the stories. The editorial is finished and the photos have been taken. Christmas Holidays 5th January Other components have been uploaded onto my blog site and more blog posts have been made. 15th January My contents page is now finally finished and I am now moving on towards my double page spread. 19th January I started my double page spread today and have gained knowledge on how to create it in the adobe program InDesign. This will be hard because I have not used the program before however am optimistic on how this will be better on Photoshop. I have been on this task for 2 days and have completed many of the tasks, my interview has been placed in along with the main image and other features such as the page numbers. Monday 26th January Monday 26th January I have now fully completed my DPS and the interview has been fitted in place and works with the other features. Thursday 29th January Today I thought of adding in some new features such as the gradient, the music download section and the clothing section.
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  Monday 2nd FebruaryMonday 2nd February I noticed today that my main image on the right page was looking lower quality then when I edited it, however this was resolved by right clicking and changing the image quality from ‘fast’to ‘high’ quality. Thursday 5th February The feedback given by my teacher was rectified today. Monday 9th February Friday 13th February This week I have tried to complete all of my coursework in time to be marked over half term. HALF TERM Monday 23rd February Thursday 25th February Now my DPS is finished I have saved it in jpeg form so that I can upload it to my blog page.
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  Monday 30th FebruaryWednesday 4th March I have started my evaluation questions 1 and 2 and have sent them to my teacher ready for marking. Thursday 5th March Now have completed evaluation question 3. Monday 9th March Thursday 6th March Evaluation questions 5 and 6 have now been completed and sent to my teacher. Monday 16th March Monday 16th March All evaluation questions have now been sent to my teacher and marked ready so that I can convert them to my chosen technologies in the half term.