Daniel Lawrence created a music magazine called "Riff" as part of his AS Media Studies course. Over the course of several months, he developed content for the magazine including a front cover, contents page, and double page interview spread. He learned new skills in Photoshop and how to incorporate appropriate codes and conventions to make the magazine look professional. Throughout the process, Daniel evaluated his work and made corrections to improve the overall quality and consistency of the magazine.

1. Schedule:
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio in
Media Studies
St Paul’s Catholic College
Candidate Name: Daniel Lawrence
Candidate Number: 6675

2. Schedule
Week Beginning Work Completed
9th
September Introduction to the AS Media Studies course, also created my own personal
WordPress account. Created a very simple page so that I can build on it over
time.
23rd
September Began to look at different theories such as Maslow, Hartley and Katz. I am
starting to relate this to the music magazine that I am creating I have chose
to base it off which is Rolling Stone and karrang
30th
September I have created a questionnaire that I can hand out to my target audience 15-
20 year olds to get a better understanding of what they would like to see
within my magazine.
7th
October I completed my hand drawn drafts for my school magazine (preliminary
task). I also continued with my preliminary task working in Photoshop on my
front cover and also my contents page. I made sure that I had added
important codes and conventions, in order to make my magazine look
presentable.
14th
October I am about half way through completing my preliminary task I only have a
few corrections to make sure that the magazine is presentable and contains
the appropriate code and conventions. I had ‘repeated’ (Steve Neale) all the
typical conventions of the contents. For example I made sure that the
masthead is visible and also that it used the same font and also the colour

3. Week beginning Work Completed
21st
October I made the corrections that I needed to do on my contents page. I have
also gone over my front cover and contents page to make sure I am
completely done with my preliminary task. I found this task was a good
way to improve on my Photoshop/editing skills as I haven't used a
software like this before. After completing this preliminary task I feel
more confident with Photoshop and I feel these new skills will help me
produce a better music magazine.
4th
November I have started to think about some ideas for my music magazine such as
names and I have come up with a few different names such as Riff,
Chord and Pick etc.. I also looked into other rock magazines to get some
inspiration so I looked at successful rock magazines such as Rolling
Stones and karrang.
18th
November After finally going with the name ‘Riff’ I placed it onto the front cover
and throughout the rest of my music magazine. I have also placed my
edited main image. I got rid of the back ground, changed the exposure
and tried out different editing techniques such as saturation and
contrast. As I was editing and making my magazine I learnt different
types of shortcuts which made it easier and quicker to do things. I have
now added all they finishing touches to my front cover. I am moving
onto my contents page. I have copied my masthead to ‘repeat’.
16th
December I have moved around with they layout of the contents page so that I
can make room for all of the necessary conventions that I need to
include whilst using my magazine’s of inspiration (Kerrang and Rolling

4. Week beginning Work Completed
13th
January I have finally added all of the text onto my contents page, and made sure
that I didn't’t have any spelling mistakes To make it look more
professional I edited the background of the images. I also added my
signature and social networking logos and links to the page to create a
personal relationship (Katz) with the readers who have purchased the
magazine. During this week I have completed my contents page and have
made a start on the double page spread.
10th
February I have laid out guidelines to make it easier on myself so that I knew
where to put conventions, texts and the image. I made sure that I used
the same masthead to ‘repeat’. I typed up my interview and proof read it
to make sure I had no spelling mistakes. While I was writing I was making
sure that the language I was used would help connect with the readers. I
added a edited image of the interviewee (Chase Armitage) to show who
is being interviewed.
24th
February I have almost finished my double page spread, I have picked the same
font that was used throughout my magazine to remain consistent. I have
also made sure that I have kept to the colour scheme
10th
March I have finally finished all of my pages for my music magazine and have
moved onto my evaluation of my magazine pages. I have learnt many
new skills using Photoshop and I overall feel more confident using the
software