Magazine cover learner response

 1) Add your finished magazine cover.

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: Your evaluation is strong – you clearly have a clear idea of what you would need to do to improve and that self-awareness will be so valuable next year when doing your coursework. Although it doesn’t match the existing ID covers you have posted, I do like your central image and it does give a nice balance to the cover. There are also a few nice design touches such as using the layer styles to make the cover lines jump off the page a little which are all good techniques for future design work. 

 

EBI: The image not directly addressing the audience is an issue but you clearly acknowledge this in your evaluation. There are also a few additional areas we can improve on. One is the actual size of the cover as it looks stretched and not A4 – an important one to check for future projects. Although the cover lines are placed on the left correctly, they are not left-aligned which would give a much sharper design to the cover. I would also like you to have written serious cover lines in the style of ID magazine as getting the text and tone right in media production work is so important.

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.

Narrative matches that of the original by being fashion focused. 

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

Better central image: mise en scene and camera shot

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?

Take the time to take an actual image for the cover as it’s the main focus and could have a huge impact on ur ability to make a cover that looks similar to the original.