Magazines: Front cover production task - learner response

The magazine cover production task was a brilliant introduction to Adobe Photoshop/InDesign and the kind of work we will be doing for coursework next year. 

Thank you for your patience in receiving feedback on this - we've been snowed under with coursework marking and exam preparation so you may have waited a while for your mark.

Depending on lesson timetabling and staff availability, you will receive this feedback either via email or verbally/handwritten in class. It will be marked out of 15 using the NEA (non-exam assessment) mark scheme. This divides up your mark using the different Media concepts: Media Language, Media Representations, Media Industries and Audiences. For this front cover assignment, we are only using the mark scheme for Media Language:

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

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.

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

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? 

Complete for homework - due date on Show My Homework.

Advertising & Marketing assessment: Learner response

The Advertising & Marketing assessment was a great opportunity to keep learning the skills we'll need in your next set of mocks and in next year's exams.

The first part of your learner response is to look carefully at your mark, grade and comments from your teacher. If anything doesn't make sense, ask your teacher - it's crucial we're learning from the process of assessments and feedback.

Learner response blog tasks

Create a new blog post called 'Advertising & Marketing assessment learner response' and complete the following tasks:

1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). For the EBI (write down each bullet point for each question)

2) Read the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully (find this on your class Google Classroom). Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment.

3) Look at your answer and the mark scheme for Question 1 (Diamonds advert unseen text). List three examples of media terminology or theory that you could have included in your answer.

4) Look at your answer and the mark scheme for Question 2. What aspects of the cultural and historical context for the Score hair cream advert do you need to revise or develop in future?

5) Now look over your mark, comments and the mark scheme for Question 3 - the 9-mark question on Sephora 'Black Beauty is Beauty'. List any postcolonial terminology you could have added to your answer here and link this to a moment in the advert.

If you do not finish your learner response in the lesson your work is returned, this needs to be completed at home - due date on Show My Homework.