Projecting Monitoring

This week in my schedule I aimed to make amendments of my body dysmorphia article, which I re-drafted and completed ahead of my schedule. Secondly I completed my task of setting up the pages for all my documents using InDesign which I also completed ahead of schedule, because I had a Philosophy exam on Thursdays lesson so knew I couldn’t waste any time. Friday’s lesson is today in which I am assessing how I am completing my project and if there is anything I am behind in. After this I will start putting together on In Design Body Dysmorphia article, creating the title, help lines box and writing the introduction.

Everything is running smoothly with my project and I feel as though I am in control and up to date with everything I have completed so far. I am not currently worried about anything in my project and feel like everything is going according to plan.

Project Monitoring

I have organised my schedule in a way which I can make sure that my Media work won’t fall behind whilst I am doing my January exams. In the weeks that I have exams I have made sure that I have set myself realistic goals so that I am still doing work so I don’t fall behind, but making sure that I don’t fall behind on my schedule. I have also made sure that I balance my skills so I will write an article, put the page together in InDesign and design one DPS, before I move on to the next one as I feel like if I choose to do all my articles and then all my designing, they might not be to my best creative ability and I don’t want to get mixed up.

I think I have set myself realistic goals as I explained with my exams making sure that I can complete certain tasks in the weeks which I have exams so that I don’t fall behind on my schedule. I believe that because I have allowed for contingency time on my schedule it has made it more realistic as things could and might go wrong, so I know I will definitely have time to finish it before the deadline.

The big challenges in my schedule will most likely be writing my articles as I have to be in a very focused and creative mind, which is often hard to find in class. I might also be challenged by InDesign and Photoshop as my skills are not particularly good, I will need to explore new things which might take longer.  

Schedule

Week	Date	Activity
1	7th 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 Research layouts I like for my front cover and contents page to get some inspiration for my project 4 Project Monitoring & researching layouts I like for my individual DPS to get some inspiration for my project Homework 1: Research and download fonts for my magazine Homework 2: Start thinking about my article writing and put together plans Homework 3: Exams/other subject deadlines: Philosophy & Ethics and Psychology mock exam on Wednesday
2	14th Jan	1 Make amendments to body dysmorphia article and redraft it 2 Set up front cover, contents page and DPS sizes on InDesign and Photoshop 3 PHILOSOPHY EXAM 4 Project Monitoring & Start putting together on InDesign Body Dysmorphia article, creating the title, help lines box and writing the introduction Homework 1: Homework 2: Homework 3: Exams/other subject deadlines: Philosophy exam on 17th
3	21stJan	1 Start putting together a DPS for teenage pregnancy, make sure the page is set up, produce the title and create the layout. 2 Start writing teenage pregnancy article using my aritcle planning document to help me 3 PYSCHOLOGY EXAM   4 Photoshoot for front cover, contents page, teenage pregnancy and body dysmorphia article. At 11.50 – 12.50, my model is coming from Carmel college at 12.00. Homework 1: continue writing teenage pregnancy article Homework2: continue writing teenage pregnancy article Homework 3: continue writing teenage pregnancy article Exams/other subject deadlines: PYSCHOLOGY EXAM  24th January
4	28th  Jan	1 Start making break out boxes for my teenage pregnancy article and teenage stress article, make sure that they are complete and ready to put into my DPS. 2 Edit pictures for my contents page and front cover 3 Edit pictures for my body dysmorphia and teenage pregnancy article 4 Project Monitoring & Start writing my teenage stress article Homework 1: continue teenage stress article Homework 2: continue teenage stress article Homework 3: continue teenage stress article Exams/other subject deadlines:
5	4th Feb	1 Today I am going to sort out my contents page. I will look at my research I have gathered on what contents page I like and take inspiration from that and start designing. 2 Make a start on designing my contents page, putting in the pictures and I have taken and produce titles and text 3 Continue contents page sorting out my layout 4 Project Monitoring & sub edit all my pages, look over them and make sure they are okay Homework 1: Re-draft articles and make finishing touches to them all Homework 2: Re-draft articles and make finishing touches to them all Homework 3: Exams/other subject deadlines:
6	11th Feb	1 Make sure break out boxes for teenage pregnancy article and teenage stress ariticle are finished 2 Make sure that my front cover, contents page and DPS’s are put together and finished of correctly, adding the final finishing touches 3 CONTINGENCY TIME 4 Project Monitoring & CONTINGENCY TIME Homework 1: Homework 2: Homework 3: Unit 5 Deadline Friday 15th Feb –projects to be uploaded to Moodle
Half term	18th Feb	Homework: Complete Monitoring and make sure that blog elements are complete
	25th Feb	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 25th Feb