Create a new blogpost called 'Magazine cover learner response' and complete the following tasks:
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.
Mark out of 15 for Media Language: 11
Estimated A Level coursework grade: B
WWW: This is a good quality cover that looks at home alongside professional examples. Your use of font/typography is outstanding and looks perfectly at home on the Vogue cover. The main cover image is strong and in keeping with the style of real Vogue covers. Overall, there is a lot to credit here in terms of page design and quality of photography – the studio shot is exactly right for this magazine.
EBI: There are a couple of factors that are keeping you out of the top level here. Firstly, the actual cover lines themselves are not quite right for Vogue. If you look at other Vogue magazines, this is very much a fashion magazine but your cover lines are far more lifestyle-based – drinks, holiday destinations etc. Getting the verbal codes/language right for your product, brief and audience is crucial for the top level. Secondly, although your image is strong it doesn’t directly address the audience and I think for magazine covers you lose a bit of the impact on the audience without direct address.
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.
Strengths: professional photo, stays in the same style as vogue, good costume
4) Look at the mark scheme again. What can you do to move your mark higher and, if required, move up a level?
Get the cover lines font and text correct for vogue
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?
Do your research about the brand a bit so that you have a good sense of idea of what your magazine is about and how its meant to look like
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