1. St. Paul’s Catholic College 64770
Candidate Name: Noah Ashworth
Candidate Number: 6102
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media Studies
Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
Summer Holidays
Monday 9th September  Introduction to unit G321
 Analyzed and learnt the codes and conventions of on the front cover of a vibe
magazine.
 Selected and analyzed the codes and conventions of a “kerrang!” magazine from the
area of my chosen subgenre of music.
Monday 16th September  Learnt about Hartley’s subjective.
 Leant Katz’ and Maslow’s theory’s.
 Identified the stereotype and reader profile for my magazine.
Monday 23rd September  Completed the survey monkey and questionnaire

2.  Began brainstorming ideas for my preliminary task names.
 Began my preliminary task on Photoshop.
 Learnt basic Photoshop skills.
Monday 30th September  Continued on the front cover of my preliminary task adding my main image and added
other codes and conventions.
 Attended training for Photoshop skills at the academy class run by Tony Harmer.
Monday 7th October  Completed my preliminary task on Photoshop, to a deadline, which I have met.
 Built on my basic Photoshop skills and practiced the skills I learnt last week.
Monday 14th October  Began construction my preliminary task contents page.
 Drew up a draft for my contents page as a basic guideline for how the contents page
will be laid out.
 Today I’ve began and completed my editorial segment in the contents page of my
preliminary task.
 I have imported in my signature, which I’ve scanned in on a piece of paper and added
to my contents page using the marquee tool.
 Add my headers for the different parts of my contents page and added my website and
my page number to the bottom of my contents page.
Monday 21st October  Today I was given the deadline for the completion of my contents page and the
addition of any corrections to my preliminary task front cover.
 Was given work to do over the half term.
 I didn’t finish all the work that had to be done which will be completed in my spare
time after school or in a free lesson.
Half Term
Monday 4th November  Here I handed in the completed version of both preliminary task pages.
 I started the planning for my main task front cover by drawing my hand drawn draft.

3. Monday 11th November  Today I began work on my main task front cover.
 Added my masthead, barcode, date, issue number, price and social networking links.
 Today I thought up and added my strapline to my front cover.
 Added my web address and completed my puff.
 Started thinking of my headline and began constructing it in Photoshop.
 Finished my main headline
 Took my main and secondary photos
 Up and coming deadline for my front cover is Friday the 22nd of November
 Today I added my cover lines and added supporting pictures to my cover lines
Monday 18th November  Today I began work on my main task contents page by drawing my hand drawn draft
and starting the construction of the contents page in Photoshop.
 Received the corrections for my main task front cover and I intend to make them.
Monday 25th November  Continued with my contents page construction adding my editorial, editor photo, and
signature and contact details.
 Used the ruler tool to mark out where the other conventions on my contents page e.g.
the sub headings and photographs.
Monday 2nd December  Continued with work on my main task contents page.
 Added the secondary stories and supporting pictures to my contents page.
 Handed in my main task contents page for marking.
 Received the corrections for my main task contents page piece of work.
Monday 9th December  Made the corrections that were suggested for the contents age.
 Completed all the corrections for my contents page.
Monday 16th December  Started on completing my research and planning corrections.
 Continued making changes to my planning and research PowerPoint
Christmas Holidays

4. Monday 6th January  Started work on my double page
 Made my hand drawn draft
 Began adding ruler lines to my Photoshop page
Monday 13th January  Today I took my pictures for my double page spread and began adding in other
conventions like my drop capital; my main headline from my front cover and the page
numbers on the double pages.
Monday 20th January  I began adding and editing my pictures to go into the double page.
 Identified areas for improvement in my double page spread.
 Positioned my drop capital, main headline and pictures
 Added the ruler tools to show where my question and answers will be placed once
they have been completed.
Monday 10th February  Returned to work on my blog page
 Adding my hand drawn drafts to my blog page and further annotations of codes and
conventions on my chosen sub genre examples.
Monday 24th February  Started making the results of my questionnaire into graphs as a way of presentencing
them on my blog page.
 Began adding the graphs I have made onto a power point I have to make a slide share.
Monday 3rd February  Today completed the answers for my evaluation on question 3
 Started work on question 4 of my evaluation on the potential audience of my magazine
Monday 10th February  Completed the work I started last week on question 4 of the evaluation.
 Started and completed question 5 of the final evaluation.
 Went back to my blog page to update it and add any completed work yet to be
uploaded on to the page.
Monday 17th February  I made a slide share account and uploaded my work onto it so I could imbed my
preliminary task step-by-step guide and preliminary research on to the blog page.
 Started question 6 of the evaluation.

5. Monday 24th February  Completed question 6 of the evaluation.
 Started and completed the final question, question 7, for my final evaluation.
 Obtained opinions of friends and family on my final completed production work.
Monday 3rd March  Added the evaluations and opinions of family and friends into the final evaluation
PowerPoint.
 Uploaded the PowerPoint onto slide share and then from slide share I embedded onto
my blog page
Monday 10th March  Made any last minute changes to my blog page, spelling, punctuation, grammar and
layout.