St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770 Candidate Name: Liam De Costa Candidate Number: 6146

Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies

Schedule

Week Beginning Work Completed Summer Holidays Monday 9th September Introduction to Unit G321 and Unit G322. Created blog and

introduced to the foundation portfolio in media. Analysed the codes and conventions of the front cover of VIBE. Looked at past exemplar work to gain inspiration and ideas. Reviewed different shot types.

Monday 16th September Introduced to Katz, Hartley’s and Maslow’s theory. Created a target audience analysis of our sub-genre

Monday 23rd September Continued with issues with media ownership, having a look at

co-production deals and how it affects the individual studios. Briefly shown basic techniques in Photoshop Survey monkey sent out and 6 responses received (25th) Started the creation of our preliminary task in Photoshop

Monday 30th September Travelled to London to have an academy class in Photoshop, adding new skills of photo manipulation to my knowledge. (3rd October, The Academy Class, Tony Harmer)

Gathered results from survey monkey and questionnaire Monday 7th October I was able to meet the deadline of finishing the preliminary front

cover (9th) Added changes to preliminary cover noted by my teacher.

Monday 14th October Learned another case study (A field in England) involved with VOD

Planned contents page for preliminary task Started work on contents page of preliminary task using my plan

however I need to take more photos to relate to cover stories inside.

Monday 21st October I have completed my Contents page of my preliminary task and have met the deadline of finishing all documents and updated my logbook to date.

This task has improved my skills in Photoshop and added to my knowledge of how magazines are designed.

DO NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL

Half Term Monday 4th November Learnt about cross-media convergence and examples in current

media. Started planning the front cover of my magazine, by

brainstorming ideas for my masthead. I thought up my masthead from a song currently in the charts. “TKO – Justin Timberlake”

I have planned my front cover on a whiteboard using a similar layout to “XXL magazine” that I will need to transfer to paper.

Monday 11th November Started work on main task front cover by placing a few conventions on the page. I need to take some photos for my main image by next lesson.

Continued work on the front page by including the main headline and have chose to use myself as the anchoring main artist.

Monday 18th November I have completed my front cover 2 days before deadline and now am just completing work on my blog page and log book.

Monday 25th November I have started work on my contents page for my main task using my completed hand drawn draft. By using resources such as ‘XXL’ magazine and last year’s work, I am ensuring that my contents page will look similar to existing layouts to reduce the chance of it failing.

I have completed my editorial in word however I haven’t taken a photo of someone for my editor picture as I am the cover artist in

my magazine. I decided not to place my editorial into the page yet as I want to manipulate the text around my editor image. I now need to start getting pictures for my contents page as the layout is now set for me to start inputting my content.

Monday 2nd December I have placed in my cover story image into my contents page and manipulated it to fit into the page. I now need to get a cover line image for my contents bar.

Monday 9th December I have placed an image for one of my cover lines into my contents page and have now completed the document.

Monday 16th December I have received my corrections and have started to make changes to my contents page. Over the Christmas holidays I will need to write up my questions and answers for my double page spread.

Christmas Holidays

Monday 6th January I have completed my hand drawn draft of my double page spread influenced by many different issues of ‘XXL’ magazine. We have also begun work on Section B of the exam, looking into the three codes: verbal, technical, non-verbal.

I have made a start on my double page by placing my images and manipulating them to fit into my page layout. I have duplicated over my masthead and banners from my contents. I will continue on creating this double page by manipulating text around one of the images. Feedback I have received involve keeping the main image black and white as it consists of the same colour scheme

as my front cover. Monday 10th February This week I have concentrated on my blog page in making sure

that the slidesharepowerpoints are linked and images of my work are added.

Also I have continued to make my finalized improvements to my main task production work.

Half term Monday 24th February We looked at the expectations for the evaluation and I received

feedback on what I need to include within my powerpoints to earn more marks.

I added comments to my log book explaining why I chose to research Q magazine and included an introduction and conclusion.

I also added reflection comments on my survey monkey results. I added reflection notes to my questionnaire results and also

uploaded my sketches to the blog page; accompanied by comments and why I made the decisions that I did.

Over the weekend I need to have completed question 1 of the evaluation.

Monday 3rd March Today I have continued to work on completing my blog page. I have continued to add evidence of planning and research and

hand drawn drafts to my blog page with reflection comments. Monday 17th March Continued work on evaluation Monday 24th March Completed evaluation and uploaded to Prezi to be placed on the

blog page.