This document provides details on Zeyan Mirza's preliminary work for their music magazine project, including: 1) Ten step-by-step descriptions of creating a preliminary front cover design, incorporating elements like background color, images, text, and promotions. 2) Six step-by-step descriptions of creating a preliminary contents page design, adding elements like masthead, text, images, and article previews. 3) Research on the rap music genre and target audience for a proposed rap-focused magazine called "Rapture," including price point considerations and the unique selling proposition. 4) An analysis of potential publisher Bauer Media and why their approach would be a good fit for the rap magazine

1. OCR Media Studies – AS Level
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media
Planning & Research
Name: Zeyan Mirza
Candidate Number: 1178
Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Center Number: 64135
Set Brief - Print
Music Magazine – Production
Preliminary Task Progression and
Planning & Research

2. Section 1) –
Preliminary Task

3. Preliminary Task Progression–
Evidence
Front Cover
Step-by-step
Step 1
The first thing I done when making
my preliminary front cover was make
the background the colour and tint I
wanted it to be, I wanted it to be
yellow fading into a much more
mellow yellow and I done this by
using the gradient tool. I already had
the template with the bold stripes in
St Andrews house colours at the top
of the document, along with the St
Andrews badge. I then inserted the
web address for my magazine.
Step 2
Secondly I used the ruler tool to align
everything and make sure when
inserting conventions onto my front
cover I know where to put them. This
makes it a lot easier to make the
front cover as I know where I need to
put everything so It enabled me to
work faster.
Step 3
The third thing I done was use
Photoshop to remove the
background from the image, after
this I inserted in onto my front
cover by placing the file into the
document. The reason I made sure
I placed the image on before I
done anything else, such as the
text, was so I would know how all
the other conventions would look
around it.
Step 4
I then inserted the masthead, it did not take
long for me to pick the font as I knew that I
wanted something simple. After this I put the
magazine slogan in, under the ‘Andy's”
aligned using the ruler tool with the bottom
of the ‘y’.
Step 5
On a separate document I done my
barcode, I got an image of the barcode of
the internet and placed it into a white box
with a black outline. I then put the barcode
onto the front cover document and added
the three social media signs and using a text
box, inserted the issue number, price and
date.
Step 6
The next thing I done was make my puff
promotion, I done this by using the shape
tool to make a circle I then filled it with blue
and put a bold yellow outline around the
circle. After this I inserted the image of the
amazon kindle, and lastly used the text tool
to write win and placed into into the puff
promotion.

4. Step 7
The next thing I done was insert the
cover story headline, I wanted to stick
with the house colours therefore I
made the text yellow and gave it a
thick blue outline. I believe this helps
make the cover story stand out more.
Step 8
I then inserted my sub story's, I
done this using the text tool and
again decided to stick with the
house colours, I chose blue
instead of yellow because yellow
would be the same colour as the
background. I then realized I was
going to have space on the left
hand side of the page so inserted
a main sub story, this time using
yellow text and gave it a black
outline.
Step 9
To make the sub story's look better, I
decided to add the St Andrews logo,
these acted as bullet points for each
story, and helped emphasize to the
reader what magazine they are
reading as well as it looking more
aesthetically pleasing.
Step 10
Lastly I inserted an image of a
student over piled with work and
books, this links with my sub story's.
Preliminary Task Progression–
Evidence
Front Cover
Step-by-step

5. Preliminary Task Progression–
Evidence
Contents Page
Step-by-step
Step 1
The first thing I done was use the text tool to
put in my contents, I wanted the contents
writing to be the in my house colours
therefore they had to be the same colours as
the St Andrews badge, I used blue text with a
bold yellow outline and then incorporated
this into the St Andrews banner which I had
already made.
Step 2
I then inserted my masthead logo into my
contents page, I done this so the reader
knows what magazine they are reading. I
copied and pasted the masthead from my
front cover, made it smaller and placed it
into the St Andrews banner.
Step 3
After this I inserted the magazines issue
number, date and the web address, this
was done using the text tool.
Step 4
The next thing I done was use the ruler
tool to determine where I wanted my
text. I inserted the editorial I previously
created on word, after inserting the
text I decided I wanted the ‘Andy's
Stars’ in my editorial to be in my
masthead font style. So I used the
Andy's Stars I used in the banner, made
it smaller wand put it where I wanted it
in the text. I then inserted my
signature which I had written on a piece
of paper, and taken a picture off, I used
the magic wand tool to remove the
white background, then sharpened the
signature.
Step 5
I then inserted my images into my
contents page, these included the editor
photo, social media logos, Christmas quiz
photo and photos taken In St Andrews. I
done this by placing the images into the
Photoshop file.
Step 6
I then inserted my sub dividers, I made a
rectangle using the shape tool the filled it
in St Andrews blue, I then using the text
tool wrote my text and made this St
Andrews blue and gave it a yellow outline,
to emphasize the magazine they are
reading I added the St Andrews badge.
Step 7
I then inserted my articles using the
text tool

6. Section 2) – Log Book

7. Music Magazine – Genre research
I never really thought I was going to be a
singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I
always listened to rap music.
Fetty Wap
My whole thing is to inspire,
to better people, to better
myself forever in this thing
that we call rap, this thing
that we call hip hop.
Kendrick Lamar
Rap music is the only vital form of
music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt Cobain
I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers
or anything, but they need to stop being so
close-minded because that will just cause the
genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't
discriminate against people. Look at Lady
Gaga, y'know what I mean?
ASAP Rocky

8. My target audience for my rap magazine ‘Rapture’ is males and females aged 16
upwards, my magazine will be priced at £2.50. I feel this is the best price for my
magazine as it enables everyone, no matter what their financial background.
Rap’s most success artists have come from hard back grounds where they had a to
hustle to get where they are. Therefore providing my target audience with a price
that rappers such as Eminem and Jay Z would have not been able to afford would
be out of order. Therefore I feel £2.50 is the perfect price.
From the research completed into this media product, I think the USP is the
fact that it would be the UK’s first major Hip Hop magazine. Magazines
produced in the UK are not normally successful and the ones that are are not
Rap magazines. I believe the combination of my magazine focusing on grime (
The UK’s Hip Hop) as well as proper Hip Hop and have interviews with some
of the biggest artists in the world such as Eminem and A$AP ROCKY will
ensure my magazine is extremely successful.

9. Publisher research
The connotations behind the slogan “We think popular” indicates that Bauer magazine
is a magazine that strives to be the best. It wants to have the most popular magazines
in every genre, and I feel if they add ‘Rapture’ to their roster, a hip hop magazine, one
that they don’t currently have, it will be extremely successful. Hip Hop is statistically
one of the biggest genres in music and account for over 30% of the songs played on
the radio. Some of the biggest and most popular artists in the world are rappers, such
as Eminem and Jay Z, therefore the fact they think popular will fit perfectly with the
genre.
Bauer reaches over 22 million people in the UK, and has many magazines on its roster
making it one of the most popular publishing companies in the UK. Bauer magazines
are made available in retail outlets such as WH Smith, Sainsbury and Tesco, meaning if
my magazine is published by Bauer, the magazine will be easily accessible.

10. Established Magazine for my Research§]
Masthead-
Name of the
magazine
Cover lines-
Gives reader an insight
into articles.
House Colors-
Enables reader to
clearly associate this
magazine
Puff promotion-
Giving the reader freebies, which
will encourage them to buy the
magazine every week
Slogan-
A term associated
with the magazine Cover star/ Main
Image-
Tinie Tempah gives
the magazine star
appeal
Barcode
Pull Quote-
Makes the
reader want to
open the
magazine and
read the article
Main cover line-
Bold and bigger then
other text, indicating
it’s the main story
Border