Work samples

The Arts: Media Arts

Years 7 and 8

Above satisfactory

Magazine cover

Summary of task

Students studied the conventions and technical and symbolic elements of magazine covers and how they engage an audience. They explored how the media creates meaning and engages particular audiences with precision on magazine covers to market magazines. In particular, students analysed symbolic elements that identify a target audience for the marketing of a magazine. Students were later engaged in a process of analysis and planning to help them to design their own magazine cover. This was a summative assessment in a broader five-week unit in which learning to use desktop publishing software was also a key outcome. The final copies of the magazine covers were displayed in the students’ classroom.

Achievement standard

By the end of Year 8, students identify and analyse how representations of social values and points of view are portrayed in the media artworks they make, distribute and view. They evaluate how they and other makers and users of media artworks from different cultures, times and places use genre and media conventions and technical and symbolic elements to make meaning. They identify and analyse the social and ethical responsibility of the makers and users of media artworks.

Students produce representations of social values and points of view in media artworks for particular audiences and contexts. They use genre and media conventions and shape technical and symbolic elements for specific purposes and meaning. They collaborate with others in design and production processes, and control equipment and technologies to achieve their intentions.

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Identifies a range of conventions and techniques used in magazine covers
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Identifies materials to make a magazine cover

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Identifies use of font style, upper and lower case
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Identifies the genre of the magazine
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Identifies engaging symbolic elements of the layout
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Describes the specific audience for the edition of the magazine
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Identifies the convention of a magazine masthead
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Identifies the convention of coverlines and states their purpose
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Notes engaging choices in layout
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Identifies the use of colour to engage an audience
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Lists elements that target the magazine's female audience

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Lists similarities and differences in the use of conventions and techniques in magazine covers
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Plans a magazine cover using conventions and technical and symbolic elements

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Plans the layout of a magazine cover

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Completes a rough copy of a magazine cover and identifies refinements in technical elements
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Identifies where adjustments can be made to improve the magazine cover using desktop publishing software

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Chooses engaging phrases and sensory words in the cover lines to engage an audience
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Completes a magazine cover that employs technical and symbolic elements to make meaning with clarity
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Chooses an engaging colour palette
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Demonstrates a detailed understanding of the conventions of magazine covers