LR Magazine production

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 Magazine front cover - Learner response


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.

WWW: You have created and submitted a production – including taking part in a photoshoot – and this will be a really valuable experience before starting the real coursework. The cover lines are appropriate for GQ magazine but otherwise there is a lot to learn here in terms of magazine conventions and print production standards.

EBI: Overall, this is a long way short of professional-level work in terms of a magazine cover and ultimately that is what we’re aiming for next year. The evaluation task to place your cover next to two real examples is designed to highlight this aim for professional standards and I’m surprised that you didn’t pick up on more of the differences between your cover and the two GQ covers you have posted. For example, your cover is the wrong format (landscape rather than portrait) and doesn’t have the GQ title on it. The main cover image is solid but I agree with your evaluation that a larger, more focused cover shot would have been more effective. Overall, your production looks more like a film poster than a magazine cover and that demonstrates the importance of high quality research, using conventions and page design. This will be a great lesson for 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.) Notice the focus on narrative in the mark scheme for Media language.

My photo has a clear focus on an individual and has coverlines, showing basic application of knowledge and understanding of 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?

I would make the photo potrait instead of landscape, and a larger, more focused cover shot would have been more effective

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 would tell them to analyse more deeply the conventions of a magazine, and research into camera angles etc.



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