Schedule

January 9th 2012 - This is the week I set up my blog using blogger, I also edited the design to how I wanted my blog to look and created all of my separate pages. I uploaded my design brief and also added in information about myself.

January 16th 2012 - This week I began researching existing front covers, contents pages and double page spreads from popular magazines such as NME and Kerrang. During this week I also began to construct my prelim flat plans.

January 23rd 2012 - This week I began to analyse a collection of magazine front covers, contents pages and double page spreads. I constructed these analyses on slideshare and uploaded them onto my blog under the research pages. 

January 30th 2012 - This is the week I started to take the photographs for my school prelim magazine. I started to also construct my prelim magazine using the templates provided.

February 6th 2012 – This week I added my photos onto my prelims front cover and also added all the text including the masthead, content indicators etc. This meant that I only had my contents page to begin to construct. Also during this week I completed my audience research for my music magazine using survey monkey and I also created a mood board.

February 13th 2012 – This week I completed my prelim contents page and I uploaded both my prelims front cover and contents page to my blog as well as their flat plans.

February 20th 2012 - This week I begin to create the sketches for my music magazines flat plans. These took quite a while to do as they needed to be hand drawn which took some time, I also needed to produce plans that I could follow later on in the construction process. I uploaded these plans onto my blog and annotated them using slideshare.

February 27th 2012 – This is the week I created my shot plans for my photographs. I hand drew these and then uploaded them onto my blog and explained why I’d done certain things. By the end of the week I had began to take the photographs for my magazine.

March 5th 2012 – This is the week I began the front cover of my music magazine using photoshop. This took me quite a while to complete as it is probably the most important page in my opinion and I wanted to get it right.

March 12th 2012 - I finished my front cover this week and began to construct my double page spread, I chose to go onto my double page spread second as I thought that the contents page was going to be the hardest page to construct. I also finished writing my article for my double page spread uploaded it onto my blog and made any necessary improvements. 

March 19th 2012 – This week I finished my double page spread and began on my contents page. I not only used lesson time but I also spent most nights at home trying to get it right as I found this the most difficult page to complete.

March 26th 2012 – This week I finished all of my pages off and uploaded them onto my blog. I also let my teachers see them so that they could give me any constructive criticism on what I had produced up to this point.

April 2nd 2012 – This is the week I began my evaluation. As it was the holidays and I had lots of other work to do I completed two out of the seven evaluations and uploaded them onto my blog.

April 16th 2012 – This was the final week of the holidays and my deadline for my evaluations was the 20^th. This meant I had five evaluations to do this week but I managed to get them all done before the deadline and I then uploaded them onto my blog.

April 23rd 2012 - This is the week we got given our feedback from our magazine pages. I had to make a few small changes to each of my pages and get them to the point I was 100% happy with. I also went back and completed my risk assessment for my photographs and got that uploaded on my blog.

May 6^th 2012 – This was my final deadline for my blog, everything had to be completed and I was not allowed to make any changes to my pages after this point. I uploaded my schedule this day and made sure everything on my blog was how I wanted it to be.