This document contains a student's preliminary research and analysis for a school magazine project. It includes: 1) An analysis of the codes and conventions of existing school/college magazines, noting similarities like main images, headings and addresses, and differences like fonts and color schemes. 2) Comments on the layout of an example magazine, pointing out elements that could make it interesting like information on school offerings and quizzes, or boring like too much coloring. 3) An outline of the preliminary exercise which was to produce a mock contents page layout, and main tasks which included preliminary research and exercise.