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

Mark out of 15 for Media Language: 14
Estimated A Level Coursework grade: A*

WWW: Sanjivani, you’ve produced an excellent Teen Vogue magazine production. You have really considered the aesthetic of the branding through careful and detailed research and planning as evidenced by your blogpost. Your application of knowledge and understanding of media language has been demonstrated through your choice of cover model’s costume, setting and cover lines which all reinforce the magazine’s focus and target audience.

EBI: Quite difficult considering how well you’ve done but I would consider the wording of your main cover line – not entirely sold on the ‘what’s latest this season’ I think this could be reworded and snappier to entice a younger target audience. Also, Prachi’s name in black would have been in another colour to stand out even more. Nevertheless, still a really good product overall!

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.

Strengths:

- Composition of the text and the colour scheme related to the central image

- The posing and where the subject is within the frame which anchors an audience

- Lastly the range of typography reflects a modern stance of femineity and fashion (through the serif font). 

Weaknesses:

- The lighting doesn't suit the vogue house style as they typically use bright lighting for a glamourous effect 

- The verbal codes should be more targeted towards a younger audience. In this case, my writing was too long and not as snappy as a younger audience would like. Furthermore, my tone may have been too formal which wouldn't engage a younger, teen audience. 

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

I believe I could've used much brighter lighting to fit this magazine cover into the vogue aesthetic as it would make the subject of the central image seem much more glamourised  I would also use  better wording and using more conventions such as an issue number and bar code/price tag to make the magazine cover replica seem much more realistic to what a magazine targeted towards a younger audience would actually look like.

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? 

I would suggest them to pay attention to the lighting of their setting to make sure their front cover truly fits conventions as although editing matters, the original picture is still a key part despite how much editing is done. Furthermore, there needs to be focus on the subject rather than what's around them so I would recommend that they focus where exactly they place the key subject withing the frame to act as an anchor for the audience to understand that the magazine is primarily targeted towards females who are younger.