Foundation Portfolio Introduction

I have been set a foundation portfolio for my A/S Media assignment. This includes a preliminary task, a main task and a presentation of my evaluation:

• The preliminary involves designing a front page and contents page for a school/college magazine. This must include a medium shot of a student.
• The main task includes designing a front page, contents and a double page spread of a new music magazine. Must include a mininmum of 4 orginal images.
• The evaluation must be electronic and can be in the form of a DVD with extras, slideshow, blog, podcast or a mixture of each.

I have chosen to use a blog to present my evaluation. After each lesson i will post on my blog and make notes to the following relevant question:

1. In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real mdeia products?
2. How effective is the combination of your product and evaluation texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

In yesterdays lesson, 19th January 2009, we talked about how we should be preparing for our preliminary task. We looked at different ways in which to keep records of each lesson. As this presentation must be all electronic I decided to write a blog, and I will also be adding videos and a podcast. Further more I will make a powerpoint presentation to evaluate my assignments.