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

  • Excellent cover image with careful construction of mise-en-scene
  • Excellent use of typography – appropriate font and contrasting colours
  • Very effective use of colour – sticking to black, white & red
  • Appropriate feature article content for the magazine product
  • Good use of alliteration in cover line

EBI

  • Lacks a dateline and price, along with some smaller cover lines
  • Colour of cover lines against background to make them more clear

13/15

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.

- shows deliberate control of connotations and clearly and purposefully constructs points of view that embody values and attitudes. 

With the wide shot of the main image, the readers are able to see the full outfit of the artist. The artists outfit embodies the dark aesthetic of the punk genre, showing careful construction of mise-en-scene. 

I have alliteration on the cover drawing in audience 

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

I could include a dateline and some smaller cover lines to gain higher marks

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? 

Start early so you're able to have time to make more improvements and come out with a better final score. 

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