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

WWW: Neev, you demonstrate very minimal application of knowledge and understanding of media language to create your own magazine front cover for GQ. Your cover model and background setting and main cover line are all in alignment with the theme of this magazine front cover. However, I do not think this is a typical style for GQ which is usually based on luxury high-end fashion and lifestyle.

EBI: Your blog post required you to complete some research and planning before you completed the final product. The biggest lesson here, is to ensure that you complete all components before starting the production process. This is invaluable, by doing so, you ensure that you produce a product that is suitable for the brief. This is important, as you will be tasked with requirements to fulfil for your coursework. For example, by researching other GQ magazine front covers you would have a better understanding of the style and how or what to represent on your recreation.

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.

knowledge and understanding of media knowledge

occasional control of connotations



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

Add deliberate connotations and narratives to show purposeful points and meanings.

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? 

plan it carefully and use professional magazines as a blue print to help you.

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