My Progress Diary

Week 1
Monday – I began making my blog and thinking about putting things on
Tuesday – I continued what I was doing on Monday
Wednesday – I began thinking about my initial ideas so that I would have something to work on the following days
Thursday – Began making questionnaire
Friday – Finished questionnaire and gave it to a few people. Filmed myself giving one

Week 2

Monday – Started making my front cover draft. Putting all of the layout together ready
for my photos
Tuesday – Took some photos for the front cover. The shoe picture then Jordan after school
Wednesday – Started editing the 2 pictures together
Thursday – Had to start front cover again. It had been wiped
Friday – Started contents page. Gave some thought about what I wanted to do image wise

Week 3

Monday – Finally finished my front cover picture and the finished the layout almost
Tuesday – Started my article for the DPS
Wednesday – Took photo for my DPS and started altering it to see if I could get it perfect
Thursday – Finished article and started to work it into my DPS
Friday – Started my contents page, added lines and base layers to show where my text and images would go.

Week 4

Monday – Started my contents page. Followed my style model as closely as I could.
Tuesday – Took pictures for my contents page
Wednesday – Put the pictures into my contents page and then decided on my contents subjects
Thursday – Added a little extra tweaks to my contents page such as tag-lines beneath pictures
Friday – Officially finished my drafts for contents page

Week 5

Monday – Decided to start my front cover from scratch due to critical advice
Tuesday – Re-arranged the format of my front cover
Wednesday – Changed the layout of my DPS and the colour scheme of the writing and the orange bars at the top and bottom
Thursday – Changed all of my contents page pictures, moved my front cover picture and cut and shrunk it to fit onto my contents page.
Friday – Started looking through all of the pictures that I had taken throughout the project and determined which ones I would use as replacement images. I also took my new front cover picture of Jordan.

Week 6

Monday – Experimented with effects on the new front cover page and changed the layout of the front cover text to complement the image.
Tuesday – Just about completely finished my contents page
Wednesday – Kept changing the text layout of my double page spread according to differing feedback from teachers
Thursday – Helped with a friends photos and made a few tweaks to my front page
Friday – Told to alter my front page layout AGAIN by several teachers

Week 7

Monday – Finished everything, DPS, Contents Page and Front Page all with 2 minutes to spare.