Introduction

My name is Jack Girvin and my task is to create a music magazine front cover, contents and double page spread that follows the conventions of real media products. To help me prepare for the music magazine I am undergoing a preliminary task to create a front page and contents page.

Candidate Number: 2244
Centre Number: 55235

The set brief is as follows: 

Print 

Preliminary exercise: 
using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a 
new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. 

Main task: 
the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. 
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

Marking

The centre will be expected to allocate marks according to four levels for each of three categories: 
 Research and Planning 
 Construction 
 Evaluation