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

WWW: Colour scheme - masthead + clothing compliment each other. Good mise-en-scene, V. good coverlines, size/choice typography, Direct-mode-of-address.

EBI: Positioning of typography - not so close to margin, dimensions of page.

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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.)

There is a clear house style with the magazine, conventions of magazines are used well with typography, colour scheme, mise-en-scene and reflects the attitude of the real magazine e.g. the direct-mode-of-address.

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

I needed to make my magazine fit the actual dimensions of real magazines as mine was too rectangular whereas actual magazines are more A4 so a bit more square. Also, usually GQ have their cover lines in the dead space between the edge of the magazine and the subject. My coverlines overlapped onto the subject so I need to make them a bit smaller so they fit correctly.

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? 

Analyse a range of magazines of the brand you want to do. Look at the similarities and the differences. Implement the similarities to your magazine and see if the different styles of the magazines compliment what you have on your magazine. Make your mise-en-scene on point, have a house style and make the cover lines as real to what the magazines will have.