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.