Schedule

Schedule

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  St. Andrew’s CatholicSchool 64135 Candidate Name: Candidate Number: Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies Schedule Week Beginning Work Completed Summer Holidays Monday 1st September Monday 8th September I started the research of the music magazine genre. I have learnt three of the target audience theories constructed by Hartley, Katz and Maslow Monday 15th September I set up my blog page. I mostly completed my audience profile, I still need the picture. I completed the survey and questionnaire. I have also learnt of my preliminary task: to create the front cover and contents page of a school themed magazine. Monday 22nd September I have completed my mood board, my name ideas mind map and
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  edited my questionnaireand survey. I started my preliminary front cover: inserted the bar code and created the background for the masthead. Monday 29th September I completed the strapline and masthead and the social networking link on the preliminary front cover. I have created a main headline and duplicated the st Andrews logo and masthead and put them around the barcode. Monday 6th October I took a picture of my main headline subject and removed the background. However I might try the alternative image as it may be easier to edit. I have completed my prelim front caver and I am in the process of doing the step by step progress. Monday 13th October I have learnt the contents page conventions and learnt how to open a new document in Photoshop instead of using templates. I have started my prelim contents page, I have done: headings, some of the stories to be included and indicated the space where the images and editorial. I have completed my cover stories and typed out the web address, issue and page number at the bottom. I have added the shapes at the bottom of the page and the heading boxes. Monday 20th October I have completed my editorial and have placed the signature and the editor details in the page. I have been given spellings to correct and areas to improve in such as the shaping of the editorial. I have now completed the contents page. Half Term
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  Monday 3rd NovemberI have made alterations to my prelim task contents page. I have completed my step by step evidence pages in the planning and research document. I have also made corrections on my front cover to make it even more professional Monday 10th November I have completed the hand drawn draft for the main task components. I shall use these to guide Me to create a magazine similar to that of my magazine of inspiration MOJO. Monday 17th November I have made corrections to my main task front cover to make it more similar to my magazine of inspiration. I have added in two of the cover lines in my front page. I have made alterations to the prop list And photo shoot plan Monday 24th November A have added variation to the fonts of my cover lines and different colors to make certain parts stand out Monday 1st December I have made the strapline more noticeable. I have made the headline much bigger and applied an inner shadow effect to make it look 3D and even more noticeable. I have also done some reformatting work on my contents page. Monday 8th December I have rewritten my editorial to include more of the necessary codes and conventions that will build a relationship with the reader. I have restructured the text in the contents page to maximize space so that I can fit the desired amount of stories. Monday 15th December I have altered the structure of the contents column to accommodate the editorial. Conveniently, this has made my page more similar to the hand drawn draft
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  Christmas Holidays Monday 5thJanuary I have made corrections to the prelim contents page by erasing the majority of the blue background on the image. I have started the interview for the BPS so far I have completed the introduction to the interview. Monday 12th January I have started to make my BPS in InDesign. So far I have inserted an image and created a background. Monday 19th January I have manipulated my BPS background image to make it black and white and made it cover the entire page, I did this in InDesign. Now I have created the heading, the stand fist and the drop capital. Monday 26 January I have made a lot of progress with my BPS, I have coloured the questions, made a caption for the image, fixed the name at the top and throughout my work, made an exclusive banner, made the social media logo have no background, created an individual font style: steelfish. Monday 23rd March I have uploaded all of the planning and research, preliminary task hand drawn drafts and finished work and the main task work to the blog page. I have made grammatical corrections to my documents. I have finished the production of my music magazine to a very high standard and the prelim task is finished.