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 EBIs. You don't need to include a mark or grade if you don't want to.

Mark out of 15 for Media Language: 9

Estimated A Level coursework grade: C

WWW: This is a mainly good quality cover that doesn’t look massively out of place alongside real versions of Essence magazine. The conventions are all there (I like the cover lines you have written) and the image is very close to being excellent. Your evaluation is short (too short!) but you do pick out the key weakness which is the green background remaining.

EBI: There are two factors that are keeping you out of the top level here. Firstly, the central image. It’s so close to a great picture – but the green in the hair is an issue that would definitely require a re-shoot if it was your real coursework. Secondly, I’m not sure on the font and typography choices you’ve made – the two real copies of Essence use a lot more in terms of sans serif typography and that gives the magazine a much more contemporary feel. Your use of serif typography creates a different effect and means it’s not quite hitting that professional standard we’re aiming for.




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.

my image is definitely one of my strengths, with the exception of the green screen seen through his hair.
also my cover lines. 
 


4) Look at the mark scheme again. What can you do to move your mark higher and, if required, move up a level?
Accurate and correct typography throughout the magazine.
and get rid of the green screen seen through the hair.


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? 

Try to be as accurate as possible- make sure the fonts are correct.

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