Magazine front cover - Learner response

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

 Mark: 5

Grade: E

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.

WWW: The photograph has potential – the background works and the subjects make eye contact with the audience to create direct address. I also think it’s worth acknowledging that this is the first practical print work we have done this year so it’s a steep learning curve when it comes to Photoshop and creating professional print productions. I also appreciate that you completed this work some time ago but simply hadn’t uploaded it to your blog (frustrating but not as bad as failing to do the work).

EBI: There are significant lessons to learn from this practical project. The first is simple: your work is not close to professional standards and your print work next year will be judged to those standards. The next challenge is to reflect on this production and develop the skills to analyse why it doesn’t look the same as the professional examples alongside it. Look closely at font (not similar enough to the real Vogue typeface) and page layout (cover line on right is not right-aligned). However, the most important aspect here is simply the lack of content and conventions – no date, no price, only two cover lines and even then the main cover line reads more like a celebrity magazine than something that would appear in Vogue. You will need to use YouTube tutorials and plan in much greater detail when you take on the print aspect of the coursework brief next year.

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.)

I feel like i have used very creative cover lines which were not copied from an original magazine. I think I could have improved more in the combination of the colour schemes a lot more to make this front cover more professional and effective.

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

I think I could have used more effective and good combination of elements to create a more clearer meaning throughout the products.

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?

I feel like one thing I would tell them is to experiment and make it look professional should be one of their main goals this will help them in achieving the highest marks possible.