Schedule

Production Schedule and monitoring document

Week	Date	Activity
1	13th Jan	1 Schedule Creation: this week I will ensure that I will create a realistic schedule to enable me to submit a completed project for the 15th February in accordance with the objectives outlined in my treatment. The schedule will be realistic, detailed and will contain 3 meaningful activities to complete as homework. Homework activities should take up four hours additional study time per week. 2 Schedule Creation: Today I will look at other commitments I have in my other A Levels including scheduled exams – this will enable me to produce a realistic schedule. In order to do this I will need to ask my other subject teachers about deadlines for homework/coursework during the next six weeks. 4 Project Monitoring (project monitoring will consist of me going through my blog and the schedule and seeing how up to date I am) Homework 1: The work I will do at home this week will be to start off my front cover, this is just going to be a draft design however I think that doing drafts will hopefully help me when it comes down to doing the final product as I will also have the images from my photo-shoot by then. Homework 2: I will also try to set out and plan some other basic layouts for my double page spreads. I will have already drawn some of my photo-shoot plan drawings so I will be able to base these layouts around the planned images from my photo-shoots. Homework 3: The final bit of homework for this week will consist of me doing some research into different layouts for double page spreads. I will look through some fitness magazines like ‘Men’s Health’ and ‘Muscle and Fitness’, and take notes on different techniques that these magazines use on their double page spreads, this will be fonts, column layouts, images, colour schemes, etc. I will then use this research that I find and try and incorporate these different double page spreads techniques into my project.  Exams/other subject deadlines:
2	20th Jan	1 The first lesson of this week I will attempt to draft my first article, this article will be ‘5 exercises for a V shaped body’, as I said in my treatment, this article is mostly going to be informative and very image heavy, this is because I will be showing examples of the exercises along with a brief description below. However I will not go on straight ahead and write out my article. I will spend the first 20 minutes of the lesson trying to plan out where the information is going to go, what sort of language I am going to use etc. 2 The second lesson of this week I will hopefully go on to draft my other article, which is ‘The truth about PEDs’, this will be the hardest article to get information for as I will have to collect some research myself for quotes which I can use throughout the article. I will take my time on both these two double page spreads, as I do not have to write out an article for ‘Eat Clean, Get Lean’. This is because I have already written out this article for my mock up. 3 In this lesson I am going to do some research into different designing techniques in InDesign, this will hopefully make me stronger on InDesign and will end up in my Double Page Spreads being stronger as I will know different effects which I can use in InDesign. 4 Project Monitoring & Font research for layouts. Homework 1: In my spare time this week at college I am going to go and see the PE department and see if they have any props I can borrow for my photo-shoot. It would be a lot easier If I could use the college’s equipment for my photo-shoots as the props I will need are heavy, therefore, bringing them in from home would be hard. Homework 2: After my homework from the last week, I should have hopefully of done a draft or two of my front cover. I will ask my peers for this weeks homework to give me feedback on it and to tell me what to improve, get rid of, etc. Homework 3: This week I will also contact my photo-shoot models to ensure that they know when the photo-shoot will be, and where I can meet them. Not doing this would be very bad as it could mean me missing my photo-shoot booking and I may not get another chance to do so. Exams/other subject deadlines:
3	27stJan	1 & 2 These 2 lessons will be spent mainly on finishing off articles. By now I will have had feedback on my draft articles, which will hopefully be very constructive and will tell me what to remove, what is good, and what I need to put include. Once I finish these articles, I will then find it a lot easier to make my double page spreads, as I will know how large the columns are going to be, and where I need to annotate the text to the images, etc. 3 In this lesson I will finish off my front cover, this will be very easy to do as I will have a couple of drafts of the front cover by this date, therefore, I will be able to just put on my photo from the photo-shoot, and then I will at least have the front cover out of the way. The reason I am doing my front cover before everything else is so that when it comes to the end and I am putting my product together, all I will need to do is place the front cover in. Otherwise when it gets to the last week I would be stressing out about making my front cover. 4 Project Monitoring Homework 1: For this piece of homework I will try and do is to look at other magazines in the fitness industry, and see what their contents pages look like. I am currently unaware of what mine will look like therefore doing this will hopefully give me some knowledge and ideas of what mine could possible look like. Homework 2: I will try and get my friends together in a group and ask them to give me feed back on my final articles, if they have any critique to offer then I will simply go back in the document and change what I think is necessary. However if I think that it will not change anything then I will simply leave it the same. Homework 3: Set up an interview between me and someone who has taken a performance-enhancing drug, ask them about their experience using it, if it worked, the side effects, etc. Then write it up afterwards and incorporate some of that information into my article for ‘The truth about PEDs’ Photo shoots this week; Tuesday 28th 9:45 = 1st photo-shoot for front cover, and 5 exercises DPS. Friday 31st 15:10 = 2nd photo-shoot for truth about PEDs. Exams/other subject deadlines:
4	3rd   Feb	1 By this date I should hopefully of finished all of my article planning. This means I could go forward and start actually putting together my full double page spreads. I will start with my first article of the different exercises. To start with will just play around in InDesign and try to see what suits the layout. By now I should have already of done my photo-shoot therefore I will be able to insert the images that I took of my models and put them onto the double page spread, followed by the text for my article. 2 This next lesson will also be used working on my first double page spread, ‘5 exercises for a V shaped body’. As this DPS is my main one and will require the most design time, I will spend as much lesson time as possible doing this is lesson time due to the fact that I do not have a Mac at home. Therefore, I will not be able to use all the technology and programs at home to complete these double page spreads. I will try and finish as much of this double page spread as possible in these two lessons, however the rest I will do for homework. 3 This lesson will be used working on my last DPS ‘The truth about PEDs’. This article will mostly be text based; therefore not many images will be needed. However designing a double page spread about text heavy articles can be very hard due to the fact that you cannot be very creative with it as it doesn’t look very aesthetically pleasing with just text. 4 Project Monitoring & Homework 1: Finish off my first double page spread and attempt to finish off last double page spread as it will give me more time to do more work the next week. Homework 2: Research into some colour schemes that would suit the double page spread and research some colour connotations that could be useful in my double page spreads. Homework 3: My third homework would be to do another peer assessment but this time on my progress of the double page spreads. As I probably wouldn’t of finished my double page spreads before this point, this makes it the perfect time to ask for some feedback on them so I know what to change and what to improve on.
5	10th  Feb	1 In this lesson I will look through the feedback I got from my mock up of the double page spread ‘Eat Clean, Get Lean’, after doing this I will gather together all of the things I think are worthy of changing. Firstly, I will look at the feedback I got about the actual article and the writing style I used. I will look to see what sort of feedback I got on this and change it around if needed. The reason for coming back to my mock up this late is because I am allowing myself most of the time for the new double page spreads, and if I did the improvements of my mock first, then I may run out of a time to do my new double page spreads. 2 In this second lesson I will again be working on improving my mock up, however as I will have hopefully finished off improving the article, I will then be able to put the article into the InDesign layout, and then mess around with the layout to change it to meet feedback I got on it. 3 By lesson 3 this week I should have my mock up improved and ready. I will also hopefully have my front cover, contents, and first DPS finished off too. This just leaves my ‘The truth about PEDs’ DPS. The reason I am leaving this till last is because I will have to collect quite a bit of research for this DPS as I will have to use first person encounters with these legal drugs and their personal experiences, therefore I will need to find a date to do an interview with this person. 4 Project Monitoring & Homework 1: For homework this week I will try and get feedback on my double page spreads I made. This means that the following week I will be able to use this feedback and maybe change my double page spreads/contents/front cover in places, which I wouldn’t have seen before the feedback. Homework 2: Homework 3: Exams/other subject deadlines:
Half term	17th Feb	Homework: Complete Monitoring and make sure that blog elements are complete
6	24th	1 This final week will be for production only; every lesson and every piece of homework will be used for designing and tweaking all of my double page spreads, and my front cover. The reason I am giving myself a whole week to do this is because last year I made the mistake of only leaving a day or two for this which ended up in my double page spread not looking as good as it could have been. This will also give me extra time to finish off other things that I didn’t quite get done in time as I may have been doing other things like photo-shoots or designing. 2 3 4 Project Monitoring & Homework 1: Homework 2: Homework 3: Exams/other subject deadlines:
	3rd  Mar	Audience/Assessor Review Week 1 Create Audience review questionnaire 2 Teacher assessment of project 3 & 4 Complete prep work for evaluation E exam Unit 5 Blog Deadline 7th March