Gurleen A level exam

  Magazine front cover - Learner response FEEDBACK: Mark out of 15 for Media Language: 10   WWW: You’ve clearly researched and planned this magazine which is such an important part of the production process. The magazine itself is clearly recognisable – your production does not stand out massively alongside other Gentlewoman front covers which is a good sign. Your main image – both in terms of the of the initial photoshoot and your Photoshop editing afterwards – is very strong so the challenge now is adding the professional design touches to open up the A*-B grades.   EBI: When deconstructing your cover in some detail, there are a few key areas we can improve on for our real coursework next year. Firstly, font and typography is crucial – you have used a slightly different font for your cover which changes the tone/style of the magazine. Your font loses a bit of the sophistication that the Gentlewoman is trying to convey. Along similar lines, text positioning isn’t quite p...

  Media Factsheet - Score hair cream Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet #188: Close Study Product - Advertising -  Score . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. If you need to access this from home  you can download it here  if you use your Greenford login details to access Google Drive. Read the factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) How did advertising techniques change in the 1960s and how does the Score advert reflect this change? In the 1960s, agencies relied more on creative instinct and were less reliant on market research. 2) What representations of women were found in post-war British advertising campaigns? Women were represented as housewives or mothers. 3) Conduct your own semiotic analysis of the Score hair cream advert: What are the connotations of the mise-en-scene in the image ? You may wish to link this to relevant contexts too.   ...

  Magazine practical production: tasks Create a blogpost called ' Magazine practical task research and planning ' and complete the following tasks: Research 1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project.  Create a shortlist of  three  potential magazines and upload an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create.                                                                     2) Choose  one  of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g. GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then f ind  three  different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What ...