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 EBIs.
  • WWW: Good original image – mise-en-scene works well. I like the camera shot and pose –although I wonder if the model needs to be making eye-contact with the audience (every Vogue example I can find online has the cover model looking at the camera).
  • EBI: The biggest issue holding this back is that it doesn’t really feel like a Vogue cover. Partly that’s due to the lack of eye-contact but there are other aspects. For example, the masthead (Vogue title) is way too big – on real Vogue covers it doesn’t take up so much of the front cover. Similarly, as you say in your evaluation, Vogue covers tend to have 5+ cover lines/main flashes but you’ve only got three. One Photoshop point on the cover lines too – the text is too spaced out for each cover line and you can alter this on Photoshop to reduce the gap. This is the level of attention to detail we’re aiming for
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.)

The mise-en-scene, particularly the costume is something that would be worn in this magazine. The main stars like. The coverlines relate to fashion, there are some that a niche audience would understand.

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

To improve, I could have made my magazine look more realistic in terms of the shot, lighting, cover lines and main title. 

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?

Make sure that the star - their costume and pose match with the magazine, the type of content it includes has to be a representation within the cover model.

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