Schedule:Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media

Studies

St Paul’s Catholic CollegeCandidate Name: Forrest Smyth

Candidate Number: 6747

ScheduleWeek Beginning Work Completed

9th September Introduction to the AS Media Studies course, also created my own personal wordpress account. Created a very simple page so that I can build on it over time.

23rd September Began to look at different theories such as Maslow, Hartley and Katz. I am starting to relate this to the music magazine that I am creating I have chose to base it off of Kerrang!

30th September I have created a questionnaire that I can hand out to my target audience (15-25 year olds) to get a better understanding of what they would like to see in the magazine.

7th October I started and also completed my hand drawn drafts for my preliminary task. I also continued with my preliminary task of nearly completing my front cover and also my contents page. I made sure that I had added the codes and conventions that I needed, in order to make my magazine look realistic.

14th October Throughout this week I am a lot closer to completing my preliminary task I only have a few corrections to make sure that the magazine is completely ready and looks professional and fit to be sold.I had ‘repeated’ (Steve Neale) all the typical conventions of the contents. For example I made sure that the masthead is visible and also that it used the same font and also the colour scheme that I used for my front cover.

Week beginning Work Completed

21st October This week I made the few corrections that I needed to be done to my contents page. Also I have made sure that I am completely done with my preliminary task, I found this was a great way to improve on my Photoshop skills as I haven't used this software before. I now feel more confident with Photoshop which will help me produce a better music magazine.

4th November I have started to brainstorm some ideas for my music magazine and have come up with different names to call it such as Beat, Sound, RockStar etc.. Also I looked at other rock magazines to get some inspiration I looked at Rolling Stones.

18th November I have now finally placed ‘Beat’ onto the front cover and throughout my music magazine. I have also placed my edited main image. I got rid of the back ground, changed the exposure and tried out different editing techniques. As I was editing and making my magazine I learnt different types of shortcuts which made it easier and quicker to do things. I have now added all they finishing touches to my front cover. I am moving onto my contents page. I have copied my masthead to ‘repeat’.

16th December I have played around with they layout of the contents page so that I can make room for all of the necessary conventions that I need to include whilst using my magazine’s of inspiration (Kerrang and Classic Rock).

Christmas Holiday

Week beginning Work Completed

13th January Finally added all of the text onto my contents page, to make sure that I didn't’t have any spelling mistakes I wrote it all in Microsoft Word and then added it onto my contents page. Then I inserted all of the pictures that I wanted to use onto my contents page. To make it look more professional I edited the background of the images. Also I have added my signature and social networking logos and links to the page to create a personal relationship (Katz) with the readers who have purchased the magazine. During this week I have completed my contents page and have made a start on the double page spread.

10th February I made guidelines to make it easier on myself so that I knew where to put conventions, texts and the image. I also ensure that I used the same masthead. Again I typed up my interview on Microsoft Word to ensure that I had no spelling mistakes. When I was writing this I was using the right language to connect with the readers. I added a edited image of the interviewee (Daniel Lawrence) to show who is being interviewed.

24th February I have started to finish my double page spread, I have picked the same font that was used throughout my magazine. Also I made sure that I have kept to the colour scheme. I have now used the pen tool to make the interview fit around the image in the centre of the double page.

10th March I have finished all of my pages for my magazine and have moved onto my evaluation of my magazine pages in whish I answered questions on the process in making the pages and what different skills I have learnt from using Photoshop.