Magazine cover learner response

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.

WWW: The use of language in the cover lines is effective with a range of stories that fit the Men’s Health brand. The cover image is appropriate for a magazine cover (although perhaps not Men’s Health specifically).

EBI: The key feedback is to look at your cover alongside the real examples – it is immediately apparent which yours is as there is a huge amount of empty space on your cover (the whole left side for example). There are errors in the cover line text (“This 55 year olds transformation” is missing an apostrophe) and the cover lines are not aligned to the side of the page. Another lack of attention to detail is the date in the very top left – this is not an important convention and you’ve placed it in the single most important part of the cover. Similarly, your evaluation questions lack detail, analysis or serious reflection. These are all great lessons in terms of creating coursework of a professional standard 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.)

- Satisfactory application of knowledge and understanding of media language, demonstrated by the generally appropriate but inconsistently effective selection and combination of straightforward elements to communicate generally clear meanings throughout the product.

- A satisfactory cross-media production that constructs suitable narratives and shows occasional control of connotations but rarely constructs points of view. 

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

- Improve my application of knowledge and understanding of media language. Which could be demonstrated through frequently appropriate and effective selection and combination of elements to communicate clear meanings throughout the product. 

- Use more cross-media production that constructs effective narratives and shows some deliberate control of connotations, constructs points of view that reflects 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?

- Have more cover lines to read. 

- Position the model in a better place so that you can see them and add in enough text when it comes to taking the images.