This document is a student's log book and evaluation for their media studies coursework creating a music magazine. It includes their progression on creating the front cover and contents page through initial drafts and the final products. It discusses their research on the genre of R&B/hip hop music and an established magazine called Vibe that focuses on this genre. The student analyzed Vibe's target audience, unique selling point, conventions, and publishing details. Their log book tracked the research and development process for their own music magazine project.

1. OCR Media Studies – AS Level
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media
Preliminary Task, Log Book and Evaluation
Name: Samuel Watson
Candidate Number: 6765
Center Name: St. Paul’s Catholic College
Center Number: 64770
Set Brief - Print
Music Magazine – Production
Preliminary Task Progression, Log Book and
Evaluation

2. Preliminary Task Progression– Evidence
Front Cover
Step-by-step

3. This was my first
attempt at making
the front cover of
my school
magazine I used
this as my
template for
future work
This was half way
through the year
when I almost
finished my front
cover but just
needed a picture
to complete it
This is the
completed
product of my
school magazines
front cover

4. This is the finished product of my school
magazine it took me approximately 2 days
to complete as my original Photoshop skills
were not the greatest but have developed
them a lot.

6. This was my first
attempt at making the
front cover of my
music magazine I used
this as my template for
future work that used
the same format
This was half way
through the term
when I almost
finished my front
cover but just
needed a few cover
lines to complete it.
This is the completed
product for my music
magazine

7. This is the finished product of my music
magazine it took me approximately 4 days
to complete as I kept changing my idea of
what I wanted it to look like and what my
genre was going to be but eventually I
stuck at this.

8. Preliminary Task Progression– Evidence
contents page
Step-by-step

9. Preliminary Task Progression– Evidence
Contents Page
Step-by-step

10. This was my first idea
for my school
magazines contents
page and I personally
didn’t think it looked
to bad so I decided to
stick with it, to get to
this stage it took me
approximately 2 days
as I had to create a
new template for it.
This was a continued
version of my first
attempt it shows some
progress but not that
much as I had to focus
on other magazines
aswell, however I
completed these few
things quite quickly as I
knew exactly what I
wanted
This is the finished
design for my school
contents page. I feel
like it has been a very
successful project and
am very happy with
the result.

11. This is the finished product for my school
magazine, it was a very successful project I
my opinion and I'm very proud of what I
created. It could probably use a few hours of
just cleaning it up so that it looked he best it
could but I think its quite well presented.

13. This was what I
finally decided to
use as my contents
page template as I
think this looks a lot
better than anything
I could come up
with.
Continuing the theme
from my starting point I
have added a lot more
detail to give it a lot more
information and so it looks
slightly more professional.
This is the final product
for my music contents
page, I feel that it has
come out better than I
expected and am very
proud of the outcome.

14. So this is the final product that I could
create for my music magazines contents
page, I am very proud of the outcome as
it came out better than I thought it
would.

15. Section 1) – Log Book

16. Music Magazine – Genre research
Vibe magazine was founded by Quincy jones, the magazine often relates to R&B,
actors and other audiences. This magazine is based around R&B and Hip Hop. R&B
originated from African music, blues and jazz. It began in the 1940s from African
American music. The songs they produced were generally about aspirations,
economics and sex.

17. Established Magazine for my Research
Mast head
Main picture
barcode
sponsorships
Sub-headingsCover-line

18. Target Audience – Katz, Maslow, Hartley and/or socio-economic needs
the target audience for vibe is young teenagers between 14-30 who enjoy the
more up beat rapping music that vibe give information about. This links to
Hartley as one of the aspects that the theory looks at is age.
What is the USP of this magazine?
From my research I have found out that the unique selling point of vibe is the
cover lines, I know this as they focus on making a lot of these to make their
magazine more interesting for their readers.

19. Publisher research
The publishers of vibe magazine are called spin media, they bought the
magazine in 2013 for an unknown sum.
Now Quincy jones is the main publisher as he creates the magazine and all of
the designs.

20. Conventions of a Music
Magazine
masthead
Cover lines
Main image
barcode
Cover lines
Sub-heading

21. Target Audience – Katz, Maslow, Hartley and/or socio-economic needs
the target audience for vibe is young teenagers between 14-30 who enjoy the
more up beat rapping music that vibe give information about. This links to
Hartley as one of the aspects that the theory looks at is age.
What is the USP of this magazine?
found out that the unique selling point of vibe is the cover lines, I know this as
they focus on making a lot of these to make their magazine more interesting
for their readers.

22. Publisher research
The publishers of vibe magazine are called spin media, they bought the magazine in
2013 for an unknown sum.
Now Quincy jones is the main publisher as he creates the magazine and all of the
designs.
For VIBE their target audience is teenagers and adults from the ages of 14-40 as that’s
the poplar age of people to listen to Rap music.