Magazine cover LR:

 WWW:   You have created and submitted a magazine cover and this will be a really valuable experience before starting the real coursework. You have clearly done some planning and evaluation but more in this area is another good lesson for the future.

EBI:  Overall, this is a long way short of professional-level work and ultimately that is what we’re aiming for next year. The evaluation task to place your cover next to two real examples is designed to highlight this ambition and I think if you’d done this you would have seen real differences in terms of font/typography, image quality and magazine cover conventions. This is not part of your coursework so the key here is to learn from this experience and make sure that your coursework next year is pushing towards the top levels. It is likely we will be designing a music magazine alongside a video production so we will need to consider conventions, image quality and page design very carefully.

My strengths in my opinion was the picture itself i believe its a great picture with a nice focus onto the main star of the photo along with the background fitting the theme really well. The text otherwise was a bit disappointing I could've done better with the cover which is what is mainly looked at by an audience.

Perhaps add some narrative into the cover to grab the readers attention it will convey the meaning of the photo much more and help create a more complex magazine.

Focus onto the photo what area of the picture do you want the reader to look at and how they would see the photo otherwise people wont be interested