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Magazines: Magazine cover production learner response



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.

Mark: 12
Grade: B

WWW: The outdoor cover image works well with vibrant colour from the background. This is reasonably common in Vogue magazine covers and when you place your cover alongside professional examples it doesn’t initially look out of place which is a terrific sign. Little creative touches like having the flowers in the image in front of the Vogue masthead are clever and brilliantly done. These are exactly the kind of creative, professional elements that will push you towards A/A* next year!

EBI: Your evaluation questions are good and I feel you have already identified some of the areas that are weaker in this cover. That ability to reflect on your work and recognise when it is not reaching professional standards will be very valuable next year. However, there are a few aspects you haven’t picked up on – you have spelt ‘Beauty’ wrong on the cover line ‘Beauty power list’ and this would be a major issue with real coursework. Here, it costs you an A grade! Also, the magazine says Vogue Polska but the cover lines are all in English? I quite like the sans-serif/serif typography mix on certain cover lines but you need to make sure the layout is consistent – for the Kerry Katona cover line ‘the other way around expectations’ the font size is inconsistent and there’s a large gap between the two lines of text. 

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.)

I think the attention to detail and creating the original cover for this magazine. I really tried to make it very realistic, the cover also had a nice framing of the figure and the flowers.

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

I think that paying attention to the text is what I should do, the language and also more research about the magazines and struggles that this particular magazine covers.

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?

 Desinitely make a final desition and don't hesitate, do your research and check every step cauple of times to make the cover an A* product.

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