This document contains a log book and evaluation for a student's media studies project creating a music magazine. It includes: - Examples of preliminary task progression showing the front cover, contents page, and double page spread with step-by-step evidence. - Research on music magazine genres and the specific genre of the student's magazine, Vibe, a hip-hop magazine. - Details on the masthead, cover lines, barcode, and publisher of Vibe. - Background on the founder of Vibe, Quincy Jones, and details on the magazine's circulation and frequency. - An evaluation of how the student's media product used and developed conventions of real music magazines in its

1. OCR Media Studies – AS Level
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media
Preliminary Task, Log Book and Evaluation
Set Brief - Print
Music Magazine – Production
Preliminary Task Progression, Log Book and
Evaluation
Name: Marco Atouguia
Candidate Number: 6818
Center Name: St. Paul’s Catholic College
Center Number: 64770

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

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

4. Preliminary Task Progression–
Evidence
Double Page Spread
Step-by-step

5. Front cover and Conventions

6. Music magazine – genre research
Genre denotes the method based on resemblances in the narrative elements from
which films are created and edited in order to appeal to characteristics of a certain
type such as action, horror or sci-fi to name but a few and moreover involve a
repetitive theme that tends to change over time with society and audience’s demands.
Included within genre can be the setting of where something is shot, the theme which
deals with the main idea of the text and format in the way the film may have been
shot, which all links to the genre itself. There is no general type of film and usually all
tend to differ and are therefore classified into different genres to make viewing easier
depending on interests and preferences.
Vibe is a hip-hop music magazine. Hip hop focuses more on rhythm rather than
melody and harmony . It’s characterised by: rapping, use of samples, use of
programmed beats, Djing. Rapping is rhythmical, rhyming, semi-spoken recitation.

7. Masthead Main headline
Cover lines
Main image
(Janelle
Monae and
Robin Thicke)
Barcode/price/date/i
ssue
There isn’t a strapline nor is there any
convergence in the magazine. They
probably don’t need a strapline because
they are an established magazine. This
is probably also why they don’t have a
convergence either.

10. Publisher research
Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine founded by
producer Quincy Jones. It predominantly features R&B and hip-
hop music artists, actors and other entertainers. It was shut
down in summer 2009, Vibe was then bought by InterMedia
Partners and now is issued semi-monthly with double covers,
and a larger online presence. The magazine owed its success to
featuring a broader range of interests than its closest
competitors The Source and XXL which focus more narrowly on
rap music, or the rock and pop-centric Rolling Stone and Spin. It
has a total circulation of 301,408. And it’s frequency quarterly.

12. Founder
The founder of the magazine is Quincy Jones. He
was born on March 14, 1933. He is a American
record producer, conductor, arranger, composer,
TV producer, film producer, instrumentalist,
magazine founder, record company executive,
humanitarian and jazz trumpeter. He made a
partnership with Time Inc. which are the
publishers and therefore made Vibe. It was a
new york based company having raised $86000.

13. Evaluation

14. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media products?
In my media work I have made sure I have met all the codes and conventions of a
media product. This meant that I had to make sure I have included; The Masthead The
Bar code The Date/Price Issue number A unique selling point Main image + Headline
Cover lines Strapline For my contents I have used additional conventions such as :
Sections Page numbers Promotions Sublines Web Address/Social networking sites.
In my media product, I attempted to keep consistent with my design, keeping the red,
black colour scheme in all of my 4 pages. For my cover image, for any text (aside from
the title) I used a blocky/pixelated effect. However my feedback said that my images
were too stretched and therefore I had to fix it but I did not have enough time to make
amends. It was to make it stand out against the image on the front cover. For my
contents page, I decided to have the stories written on the left side and have a couple
of pictures on the right side. I also had the editorial at the bottom with an image of
me. For the double page spread I had decided to have the text on the left page and a
photo on the right. Although my double page spread did not have text continuity to
the next page the content is rich and easy to read.