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Your chosen brief is perfect – great link to
your investigation and a genuine product I can imagine in the media
environment. Going for a weekly news magazine is much more achievable and
realistic than a newspaper.
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Your planning – at least on your blog – is
pretty weak. I’ve actually seen a lot of your drafts on-screen and they look
very promising but I hope there’s more by way of planning and research that is
sitting on paper somewhere and didn’t make it to your blog. There is no
requirement from AQA to submit any research or planning but there is absolutely
no way to reach the top level (“approaching professional standards”) without
meticulous planning and research.
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The photography you’ve posted up on your blog is
mixed – I’m not seeing too many professional-level photos in terms of framing
and focus. It may be worth pursuing the more cartoon-like approach you’re going
for on the cover on the inside pages too. That might mean heavy editing of your
images on Photoshop to continue this visual style. If you want to run with
standard photos, clever cropping will be essential to make the images approach
professional standards.
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More than any other project, your final grade
will depend on excellent writing. The content of your double page spreads (and
contents page) needs to match a professional design. This is a challenge – any
lack of authority to the writing (or particularly poor written English) will
wipe marks off your final MEST4 grade. At the moment I haven’t seen any of the
text so this is naturally a high-risk area for the project currently.
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Post these tutorial notes to your MEST4
coursework blog as a new blogpost.
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The rough cut/page deadline is Wednesday 22
March – make sure you are on track to meet this deadline.
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After pasting these notes in your blogpost,
write a numbered list of THREE things you will do in the next seven days in
order to move your Linked Production project to the next level.
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