Production Schedule and monitoring document

Production Schedule and monitoring document

Week	Date	Activity
1	13th Jan	1 Schedule Creation: this week I will make sure that I 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. 3 finish photo-shoot plan. This will enable to take my photos with confidence knowing what images I will be taking. 4 Project Monitoring & Homework 1: To create an article plan for the article D.I.Y designs. This document is to be uploaded to my blog. Homework 2: To fill in some extra commitments and tasks to the schedule. This will enable me to start my production stages. Homework 3: To research the components I need for my props and order them. Exams/other subject deadlines: 27th January brochure hand in (ICT) 29th January Graphics interview
2	20th Jan	1 Feedback- I will ask for feedback in this lesson on my Blue folder so I can improve some of my work. 2 Organisation- In this lesson I will book my photo-shoot for the for the first week of February. This will allow me to start the production of my magazine. I will also Research some fonts and create a fonts folder in my A2 media folder. 3 Colour research- This lesson I will research the colours I would like to use for the product and noting down colour codes. I will also be creating the call sheets for my product. 4 Project Monitoring & Homework 1: Start to build the dolly slider for the article D.I.Y designs and take photos throughout. Homework 2: Write the article D.I.Y designs. Homework 3: Start to make and prepare my props for a photo-shoot. This will include painting and decorating the props to make them look realistic. Exams/other subject deadlines: 27th January brochure hand in (ICT) 29th January Graphics interview
3	27thJan	1 Photo-shoot Preparation- Setup call sheets so that the models know the arrangements. Ensure there is a camera available for my photo-shoot. 2 Create a questionnaire -To add to the articles YouTube, A Ticking Time Bomb and The Online Film Revolution. This will give me data to support my arguments. 3 Research story styles- I will research similar articles to gain an insight on how to structure my articles. 4 Project Monitoring & Homework 1: Research headers, sell lines Homework 2: Statistical research Homework 3: Research other magazine DPS designs  to use as reference imagery. Exams/other subject deadlines: 27th January brochure hand in (ICT) 29th January Graphics interview (Teesside Uni) 6th February graphics interview (Cleveland) 12th February Graphics interview (York St John) 13th February ICT overall hand in
4	3rd   Feb	1 Setup Photoshop and InDesign documents- In this lesson I will be setting up my documents in Photoshop and InDesign. This will enable to start designing the pages for my articles to insert in. I will use Photoshop to create the components for my pages such as break out boxes and headlines. I need to ensure I have the correct column guides. 2 N/A (Interview) 3 Photo-shoot- This will allow me to insert my images into my DPS and finish my DPS to a professional standard. 4 Project Monitoring & photo-shoot review- In this lesson I will be going through and organising all the images I captured on the photo-shoot. I will also be editing the images I will use for my DPS. Finally I will download my fonts that I have researched into my folder ready to use. Homework 1: Make a second draft of the online film revolution Homework 2: Make a second draft of YouTube a ticking time bomb Homework 3: Make a second Draft of DIY designs Exams/other subject deadlines: 6th February graphics interview (Cleveland) 12th February Graphics interview (York St John) 13th February ICT overall hand in
5	10th  Feb	1 designing elements- In this lesson I will design the elements of my magazine such as mastheads, kickers and textures. 2 InDesign production- This lesson I will import the final textures into my file space and then start on the production of each page ensuring I import the photographic and illustrative content necessary. 3 4 Project Monitoring & sub editing individual pages- In this lesson I will continue with the sub-editing of the pages. I will also try receive feedback so that I can produce second drafts Homework 1: Create the second drafts of the DPS Homework 2: Create the second drafts of the DPS Homework 3: Create the second drafts of the DPS Exams/other subject deadlines: 12th February Graphics interview (York St John) 13th February ICT overall hand in
Half term	17th Feb	Homework: Complete Monitoring and make sure that blog elements are complete
6	24th	1 Ensure that my product is consistent- In this lesson I will ensure that my product is aesthetically pleasing and follows a certain and consistent standard throughout. 2 contingency lesson- I’m leaving this lesson free just in case something is wrong with my product. 3 contingency lesson- I’m leaving this lesson free just in case something is wrong with my product. 4 Project Monitoring & contingency lesson- I’m leaving this lesson free just in case something is wrong with my product. Homework 1: contingency period- I’m leaving this period free just in case something is wrong with my product. Homework 2: contingency period- I’m leaving this period free just in case something is wrong with my product. Homework 3: contingency period- I’m leaving this period free just in case something is wrong with my product. 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