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On this day I searched online for products that I could include in my beauty and fashion articles. I am promoting "getting the look for less" so I will put examples of shops where you can buy the products I talk about at a reasonable price and an image of them. I have asked Leila about where to reference the images and it's been decided that along the spine of the pages where the articles are, I will have the links from where I found the photos as this is what is shown in professional magazines.

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I finished my articles today, I decided to put my headphones in and not allow myself to become distracted so I could get them done. The only thing that I need to add to them now is the photos for recommended products, I will be doing this on Monday. After lunch we went to see Tom in Journalism to get some feedback on the progress of our magazine, he said he was happy with what he saw so far, but suggested that we should add a strapline to our magazine as most of the professional ones have this. To add a quote on the front from my interview with Emma and to move one of our peices of text as it blended with the background. This feedback was useful as we could go back and edit our magazine to make it look more professional, it also helped getting feedback from someone in the journalism industry as it made sure our magazine was being judged well.

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At the beginning of the day I completed my drafts of my beauty and fashion articles, so far I am not finding any difficulty in writing them. I had to take part in some more photoshoots today, I also took one myself for my fashion article(the photo that's in this post, but the background has now been removed). We had some issues with the lights being out of sync with the camera; we had two but one was flashing before the other making the photo dark on one side. We tried to fix it ourselves at first but we had to get Dave to help us, however, every time he tried to help us the issue wasn't happening! Eventually it worked fine and we took the shots. Over Wednesday and Thursday I looked through Emma's notes on my drafts and edited my work accordingly, having an editor in chief look over your work with fresh eyes is really beneficial as there were some grammatical and spelling mistakes that I wouldn't have noticed myself.

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I went to the town park in the morning today with Luke and Ryan to take photos for the fashion articles and the sports articles. We took longer than expected but we wanted to make sure that we had good quality photos for our magazine. Our chief in editor did not have much use being at the shoot so she stayed at College to edit the magazine, which in turn kept up with our progress due to us being out of college so late on Friday, we got back to college earlier than before which meant we had to time to not only go through photos but I also had time to catch up on doing bits of my drafts, I have planned to do some work over the next two study days to ensure that my articles are finished by Friday.

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Today we did test shots at the Town Park for mostly all the day. From 9:45-10:00 we had a team meeting, 10:00-10:15 we picked up our equiptment, and we arrived at Town Park around 10:40. We visited each location that we wanted to use to check that they were safe to use and had the lighting and background that we wanted, one issue we had is that because of the large location we had difficulty locating the places. However, we had planned to do shoots for the whole day so we had enough time to do this. Another is that it had rained the day previously, so a lot of the grass and structures to stand on were slippery; this is a health and safety hazard that we noted for when we next go to the location. Once returning to the college at about 1:45 we looked over the photos we had taken, even though they are considered "test shots" we actually loved some of them. One of my ones is now our magazine cover in

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Before our test shots on Friday I had to make sure that all of our locations had given us permission to take photos which they had. I was given permission by Gibberd Garden, parndon woods and town park but due to time restraints we chose to mostly go to Town Park as it is very large and close to college. We have arranged to visit Town Park on Friday for test shots as these will mean when we take the actual photos that the light in and location will be good rather than wasting time on the day.

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Today I have been writing my draft articles for my fashion and beauty sections. I have also been planning with Luke what photos I will need for my beauty and fashion articles, this will benefit us both as we will both know what we are doing when having photoshoots and will not waste time discussing in the day. It also means he could complete his floor plans for his job role. I am finding it hard to keep my articles simple but as they are only drafts I can check over with my chief in editor Emma and cut them down a bit. I do not want my articles to be incredibly long as the audience will get bored and lose interest.

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This week has mostly been about finishing our research at home for Unit 7.2 and beginning pre production in our groups. I have been finding research hard to do but with some help from my peers I have found some sources online as well as one of my own books at home to use for my research. I mostly had issues with finding suitable industry professionals but I chose Zoe Sugg as I know she does beauty and fashion blogging as well as her YouTube channel, and that her blog is helpful when trying to write articles about beauty and fashion. In terms of pre production I have been in charge of things like flat lays of the magazine, contacting locations for photo shoots, and getting people to sign talent release forms. I have also made plans of my articles. My plans will help me when writing my articles as I can refer back to them as a template. I have also created some sketches of makeup routines as they make it easier for me to write a step by step method of how to recreate them.

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https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0B4ZNlBJskGxONEFVQ2d4ZUlvTjg today we did some primary research (vox pops only as we couldn't find anyone for our 1:1 interviews or our focus group, however, i have contacted some people for a scheduled focus group on Monday.) and got some feedback to use in preparation of our magazine. I asked questions such as "do you think there should be cheaper alternatives for fashion items shown in magazines?" since my part of the magazine is about men and women's beauty and fashion in 2016. The biggest issue we came across today was that almost no one was available for our primary research, but we managed to find a few people from the public for our vox pops as this was simpler than taking students out of classrooms to interview them. In comparison to an industry professional vox pop (insert a Niall video) we defitnley didn't find as many people to interview, however I think this is down to some lack of confidence when going up to strangers in public, who often do not want to speak with you. Over our college life I think it will become easier to approach people and get good feedback from them, and in turn this will improve our products when we create them.

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Today we completed six workshops about using the practical equipment that we will potentially use when we do FMP and in other future projects. If i haven't gone over something in a while i tend to forget how to do/use it so these workshops definitely helped although it was difficult as the workshop was quick and we only had 20 minutes to use each set up and explain how to use the equipment ourselves. However, I now know more about what each piece of equipment can do and how i can use it in my own work. I learnt how to set up a few pieces of equipment that i didn't know how to before, such as the jib. The next time me or my group is taking test shots or creating a project we will be able to set up the equipment ourselves quicker than what we would've before.

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Today we went to a casting call for a producer, it was for the job of a runner and other acting gigs. The acting job was not interesting to me since you'd have to swap families and i'm not comfortable in doing this. The runner job did interest me as i know it would be good experience, although, the job occurs during FMP and i'd rather focus on FMP and not something else.I have also made a start to both my mind-map and moodboard to show when i do my pitch.By watching a short video I have learnt that a mind-map is always helpful when creating a project as you have one place where all your ideas can go before picking which ideas are best. In the future I can analyse my ideas by referring back to my mindmap and moodboard. Since the project has to be about 2016 I have found some difficulty in adapting my original idea to that brief but I have also talked to the group id like to work with and weve deciding our group idea should be a magazine as we can all add our own ideas into our own articles and we can expand on what happened on 2016 rather than pick only one happening.

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Today I looked back over my feedback from Units 1-7 and created some targets for Unit 8, these will help me make sure that my work in the Final Major Project is better than that I have done previously and the target reviewing dates will make sure I stay on track with my work. We also had to give eachother feedback for our SWOT analysis which is below so that we could get a different perspective on our production work and see what others would like us to improve on. Today was mostly independent work apart from getting some feedback so I found it a bit difficult but I am working on making my independent skills better and I managed to finish my work. I also got all of my units signed off so that I could start FMP.

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PEER ASSESMENT FEEDBACK FOR SWOT: Feedback questions:

What is my best attribute in production work?

Creativity, focusing, and imagination.

Organisation.

What Improvements could I make in my work?

Team work, involving other people in work.

How good is my contribution to the group?

Very useful, very good,

What is my biggest weakness?

I can get distracted, using the editing software for photos.

STRENGTHS: Creativity and using my imagination whilst coming up for ideas for work. I have good focus levels when needed. My contribution to the group is very good as well.
WEAKNESSES: Letting the team do their own work(however, I will note that in both of my groups there have been times where documents have not been completed and we could put move forward in the production without them being finished so I did them myself). Sometimes, I can get distracted. I have trouble with some of the software on the macs when editing photos.