Magazine 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. You don't need to include a mark or grade if you don't want to.

• Mark out of 15 for Media Language: 9
• WWW: This is a mainly good quality cover that doesn’t look massively out of place alongside real versions of Dazed magazine. The conventions are all there (I like the decision to shoot in an unusual setting) and the choice of typography and costume colour for the masthead and cover model fits in line with the brand identity. Your evaluation is short (too short and incomplete!) but you do pick out the key weakness which is not enough planning and inadequate lighting.
• EBI: There are two factors that are keeping you out of the top level here. Firstly, the central image. It’s so close to a good picture – but the shadows in the PC monitor screens and blinds could have been edited out. Secondly, which you did allude to in your reflection is the choice of lighting which would have impacted the shadows for your central image.

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?

• Plan in a lot more detail and edit the photo to get rid of the shadows in places that they wouldn't be in a professional shoot.

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? 

• Planning out what you intend to take photos of and have a good idea for the composition of the shot and what lights you plan on using.