2nd meeting with mentor

Meeting with my mentor for the second time enabled me to take a step forward in my project. I have been able to set titles to help structure my dissertation and doing this allows my to research different areas of my question and keep everything focused on one question instead of running wild with research what isn't useful.
Given the recent news on the courts trials ongoing with the Hillsborough this makes my project a lot more interesting as it is keeping it contemporary.

Structuring my Dissertation

planning & titles for project

• introduction to the dissertation
• personal views, how i personally feel about the disaster
• Introduction to the people involved and their roles, for example David Duckenfield, JFT96 support group, The Sun and their impact, Andy Burnham. ( 250 words each )

Topic Areas

• The media perspective, including what exactly The Sun said and what impact that had on everybody in the UK How Liverpool stood against The Sun and even now to the present day. ( aim for 1000 words )
• The persistence of the JFT96 support groups, including details from the court cases won by them, what its classed as now and how far they've come to reach the verdict that they wanted to. ( 1000 words )
• The injustice and the lies that the South Yorkshire Police brought across to try and cover their own backs. - David Duckenfield (1000 words)
• How it brought the footballing community together, memorial etc.
• What actually happened on the day of the disaster
• Conclusion of the whole thing - including where it stands now, ongoing debates, the sun still being banned in liverpool.

Timeline for what to be completed

List of tasks to be completed by the end of November

•  to have my source evaluation table filled out, which looks at the strengths and the weaknesses of each source, and how reliable each source is in terms of whether it can be trusted or not.
• Written up a plan of how to structure dissertation, what to include and where.
• Start to write up Introduction and personal paragraph.

By the end of December

• Have titles for the separate sections i wish to look at 
• gather some research for each part of the areas
• Write introduction for each header

By the end of January/February

• Continue on writing up the dissertation
• Arrange which theorists are going to support the areas of representation from the sun
• Research of the news articles from 'The Sun'

By the end of March

• Aim to have majority of the dissertation completed with the time to be able to allow changes and time to reflect over my dissertation. 
• achieve to have powerpoint to present my epq started

Timeline of event and intial ideas

To move forward with my EPQ and to help me be able to organise my dissertation into what i can talk about, I'm going to set out the timeline of events from a few weeks before the disaster to the present day. This will help me get a full idea on what was published by the newspapers and when, and what each tv broadcast of the disaster said about the event and how this changed from 1989 to how Hillsborough is presented now. After I have done this I will then be able to structure my final piece by organising what i will say and where.

Epq diary

Date	What I have Achieved	What I need to do	Changes	Skills used and developed
18/10/18	I have started to look at my initial ideas and what I intend to look at. I have discussed these with my mentor and chosen on the topic of media representation on the Hillsborough disaster.	Gain some background knowledge on chosen subject, and then decide on a title.		Organisation Communication punctuality
11/11/18	I have started to do some pre – research to be allow me to starting planning for which direction I want to take my EPQ, as my topic on Hillsborough is majorly broad, the need to be structured is essential due to the amount of information around this topic, including the timeline of events from what happened onlong Hillsborough.	Take notes of which publications posted what and when		Research skills
13/11/18	Created a timeline to be completed to help achieve the deadlines at the right time to enable me being punctual and improve time management.	I need to make sure to meet each deadline to make sure I  have an even work load and reduce leaving work until the last minute.		Time management
22/11/18	Came up with titles for paragraphs and allocated them an amount of words to be able to be organised and be able to reach the word limit efficiently.	Gather research for each header, then be able to construct paragraph aims		organisation
23/11/18 – 4/1/19	Research into the news, found article from The Sun, Liverpool echo and Sheffield star. Research from a book to help	Watch broadcast media to be able to see if there’s a difference between the print media and broadcast.		Research skills
4/1/19 onwards	Starting bringing together dissertation including all the research I have researched	Reach the word limit efficiently, include all relevant detail,		Developed skills to be organised, puncutal

First Meeting with Mentor

Meeting with my mentor helped me move forward with my project and to know what needs to be done next. The next stages for my project will be to find tabloid and broadsheet newspaper articles from the time of the disaster, and look at the different angles that each newspaper looked at and how each newspaper put the blame on different people.

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

For my EPQ, my initial ideas are to look at how the media represent and persistently published articles about the Hillsborough disaster, which took place on 15th April 1989. I intend to look at how the media distorted the reasons as to why the disaster happened and who blamed who, with also looking at how the different media aspects for example,television news reports, newspaper articles.

I will do this by looking at the newspaper articles at the time, and also documentaries from accounts from this day also.

I will also include the events briefly what happened on the day, the determination of the JFT96 and the injustice from The Sun and south yorkshire police department.