Prelimenary task and action plan

My brief requires me to use DTP and an image manipulation program to produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, this will feature a photograph of a student in a medium close-up and also appropriately laid-out text and a masthead for the page. Im also producing a mock-up of the layout of the contents page, in order to demonstrate my grasp on DTP.
My Action plan covers the next 5 weeks, In the first week of the project i was introduced to the brief which  required me to research the generic conventions of a typical magazine. In the second week, I was required to set up a blog to record my work and research the purposed target audience.  The third week requires me to produce a mock-up of my front cover and contents page whilst beginning to design and plan the real ones. Week four requires me to design the front cover and the contents page as the final pages that i will be using. After the christmas holidays, in week 5 we will be completing our evaluation of the college magazine, where we will correct and indentify different features of our work.