Magazine front cover learner response

 

1) Add your finished magazine cover as a JPEG image.



2) Type up your feedback from your teacher. If you've received this by email, you can copy and paste it across - WWW and EBI. You don't need to include a mark or grade if you don't want to.

WWW: This cover has some very good elements without quite reaching the top levels of the coursework mark scheme. It’s brilliant to see a carefully constructed cover image that is very deliberately planned and executed. Indeed, your research and planning is a real strength and this will massively help you in the real coursework next year. The image is striking and directly addresses the audience – although for Vogue perhaps needs to have more clothing/fashion visible. Your evaluation picks out the missing bar code (which I’m pretending is there!) and generally reflects well in terms of the central image photoshoot and what you could do differently in future.

 

EBI: The challenge in terms of moving towards the top level is around page design, cover lines, font and typography. The page size doesn’t look quite right – too long and thin to be a real Vogue magazine cover? These are details we want to get right. The font/typography doesn’t match the Vogue brand in places and in fact the Vogue title is not in quite the right font (I would have got the Vogue logo/brand identity from Google Images on this occasion). Not all the text is legible either – you have black text over black image for Janice’s name which is a design issue you wouldn’t see in professional work. Lots to learn here but also lots of potential – particularly in your research, planning and photoshoot experience.

 


3) Consider your mark against the mark scheme above. What are the strengths of your production based on the the mark scheme? Think about magazine cover conventions and the media language techniques you have used to communicate with your audience (e.g. mise-en-scene, camera shot etc.) Notice the focus on narrative in the mark scheme for Media language.

Good use of key lighting and picture editing. Camera shot decided carefully and the mise-en-scne matches aesthetic.

4) Look at the mark scheme again. What can you do to move your mark higher and, if required, move up a level?

The layout and editing of typography could be better.

5) What would be one piece of advice you would give a student about to start the same magazine cover project you have just completed? 

Back ground is very important.

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