Magazines: Front cover production task - learner response

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 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: Tara, you’ve produced a good magazine front cover to represent the DAZED brand. The edgy concept and design demonstrate good application of knowledge and understanding of media language which link to the DAZED brand identity. This can be seen through the grainy colour scheme, the single main cover line and the luxury prop of the Diesel handbag. All these elements help communicate clear meanings throughout the product which would relate to the intended target audience.

EBI: Your evaluative comments are spot on in regard to the quality of your photography perhaps not being as professional as an original DAZED magazine front cover, well done for identifying this. The position and size of the bar code could be edited to fit more in line with how the magazine usually incorporates this on their front covers. Finally, I think the size of your main cover line could have been bigger to link to the main cover model which dominates your front page. Having something bigger would support this further.

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.

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

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? 

I think know how to edit, such as one platforms(photoshop instead of capcut), additionally, using a professional camera which can look like a realistic magazine

Having Excellent application of knowledge and understanding of media language, demonstrated by the consistently appropriate and effective selection and combination of elements to communicate very clear meanings throughout the products. An excellent cross-media production that constructs very effective narratives and shows deliberate control of connotations and clearly and purposefully constructs points of view that embody values and attitude

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