Course work

1. St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770
Candidate Name: JosephEllison
Candidate Number: 6636
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 8th September In this week I was introduced to AS media, my teacher explained what
we were going to be doing throughout the course.
Monday 15th September I created hand drawn drafts for the school magazine (preliminary
task) to help me plan the layout.
Monday 22rd September Researched into my target audience to help me with what to include in
my magazine to attract them. After doing some research tasks on what
makes a magazine attractive for its consumers, I began making
preparations for my preliminary task.
Monday 29th September I was ready to start creating my school magazine pages; so I went on

2. Dafont.com and looked for an appropriate font that fit the purpose for
my magazine. When I found the right font, I went on Photoshop and
started working on the front cover. The name of my school magazine
was ‘The Break through’ and I used the font that I downloaded from
Dafont.com in the masthead.
Monday 6th October By this stage, I had nearly finished my front cover magazine in terms
of placing the important codes and conventions that a magazine
should have. Such as the cover lines, masthead, barcode, and strapline.
I then took plenty of pictures for my front cover and edited them on
Photoshop using the quick mask tool, so that the image was at a good
standard.
Monday 13th October At this point I was in the middle of the preliminary task, trying to
complete it before half term. I made a start on the contents page and
copied conventions from my front cover to the contents. I took
pictures for the contents page; just like the contents page I edited the
chosen picture to make a good standard.
Monday 20st October By now I completed the preliminary task and I received feedback from
my teacher, to make changes over the half term.
Half Term
Monday 3th November During the half term break, I made my changes to my preliminary and
using the experience and skills gained from preparing and then
performing the preliminary task, I felt that I was ready for the main
task which was the production of the music magazine.

3. Monday 10th November Before I began the main task, I started working on my Logbook. I
completed the preliminary part of the Logbook and began to work on
the part, which required existing media product research. I did
research on a magazine called The source, which gave me an insight to
what I needed to include in my magazine.
Monday 17th November I progressed with the logbook and researched about The Source
magazine. I was in the middle of my Logbook, which was collecting
information about the XXL magazine - my magazine of inspiration. I
was going to use this magazine to guide me when producing my music
front cover, contents page and double page spread.
Monday 24th November I was towards the end of the Logbook and was started looking into the
publisher of XXL. I began doing the hand drawn draft for the music
magazine pages, to help me visualize where I was going to put the
codes and conventions included in a music magazine. Then I made a
start on the front cover; by putting in the conventions know to a
magazine. For example cover lines, convergence and Masthead etc.
Monday 1nd December It took me longer than I thought to sort out the layout for my front
cover because I initially used my hand drawn draft to organise the
page, however I after thinking about it and looking at more examples
of existing magazines, I rearranged the layout. I took plenty of pictures
for my front cover and finally chose one; felt like I was in a position to
move on to the contents page.
Monday 8th December The contents page was slightly easier because most of the codes and
conventions were in the front cover, so all I had to do was copy and
paste them over; obviously adding the required conventions that are

4. included in a contents pages, I did my editorial in word so if I made
any grammatical or spelling mistakes word would tell me.
Monday 15th December I edited the main image for the contents page using Photoshop; I also
refined the edges of the photo because they were looking rough. I also
managed to complete the front cover page and I was happy with what
I had produced because it took a lot of thought and time.
Christmas Holidays
Monday 5th January I took pictures for my double page spread, however I didn’t get
time to edit the picture because I was concentrating on the
information on the page. I started on my interview and did 6
questions and 6 answers, I typed up the story to introduce my
interviewee and used the pen tool I carefully went around the
image and put the text around the image; I made sure to put
important conventions such as the drop capital at the beginning
of the paragraph.
Monday 12th January Did the editor letters letter on word for the contents page then
copied and pasted it on Photoshop. I had previously had a picture
of myself, which I had used for my editors picture, then I took
another picture for my contents page for the editorial and added
sections to the cover lines because the layout was looking messy;
also completed the contents page after placing all of the
conventional features. I finished the questionnaire for the double
page spread as well.

5. Monday 19th January I began to think about completing my logbook. Then I started
editing the picturefor the double page spread, and I just re-
arranged the layout because I didn’t like it. I really struggle with
the editing of the picture because the hair was curly and the
background was white which was difficult when using the quick
mask tool, so spent quite a lot of hours doing that to make sure it
was at a good standard.
Monday 9th February I did further research towards the planning and research for the
publisher of XXL magazine and managed to complete my logbook.
I did the audience profile sheet on this day as well.
Monday 16th February Finally I finished my double page spread even though it was late
I worked hard on it and put in extra time to make sure everything
was correct. I started working on the step-by-step guide to how I
created the front cover contents page and double page spread
(the evaluation).
Monday 23 February I was doing the evaluation this whole week and I answered the 6
question that need to be answered and extra information to how
I produced my music pages, such as planning of the pictures and
so on.
Monday 2nd March Completed the logbook, evaluation and production work, so I put
everything on the blog page. I tried to make the blog page as
unique as possible.