Magazine 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: 8

Estimated A Level coursework grade: C / D

WWW: I agree with your evaluation – it is definitely recognisable as a copy of Billboard magazine but your description as ‘semi-professional’ rather than fully professional is accurate. This self-awareness will be extremely helpful next year when working on your real coursework and hopefully you can use this project as inspiration to further develop your technical skills. It’s vital you are confident on both Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro (for the video production) for next year. For this cover, your image is strong so it’s just a case of working on conventions and typography.

EBI: There are a few areas we can improve on. Firstly, I would not have used Akon (a real artist) as your main cover line as your image is clearly of someone different. In this situation, create a new artist that you can use for your central image. Secondly, you are lacking conventions – if you look at the real Billboard covers you picked out they have more text / cover lines / content on the front cover. You have a lot of empty space, particularly in the bottom third of the cover. Finally, I can see what you’ve tried to do with the typography but the fonts just don’t quite have that professional finish. This is a great lesson in the importance of selecting fonts that communicate exactly the right meaning to the audience.

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.)

satisfactory knowledge of and understanding of media language. Clear meanings throughout the product. Shows occasional control of connotations. 

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

Have an excellent cross media production that constructs very effective narratives and shows deliberate control of connotations and clearly constructs point of views that embody values and attitudes. 

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? 

Follow the magazine cover conventions clearly and try to copy every single detail to gain the highest possible mark. Don't make up your own conventions. 


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