Marking and feedback - Double Page Spread

To help you improve and make progress, here is some additional guidance for your DPS. Look back at your feedback from your teacher (and also reflect on your own work) and use the elements below to identify what is missing from your magazine. 

Create a flat plan which incorporates all these elements (where appropriate) to avoid making the mistakes of your first draft!

My advice: look loosely at an example of a real DPS from a magazine that you are trying to emulate. 

Headline: a phrase that summarises the main point of the article. Headlines are in large print and different style in order to catch the attention of the reader.

Standfirst: block of text that introduces the story, normally in a style different to the body text and headline.

Byline: the line above the story, which gives the author’s name and sometimes their job and location (known as the dateline).

Page furniture: everything on the page except pictures or text of stories.

Pull quote: a quote from the story that is enlarged and appears within the text.

Crosshead: bolded/large text that breaks up a long story.

Sidebar: this is a panel or box on a page containing graphics or other information about an article. It is eye-catching and breaks the story up into different elements.

Caption: a brief description of a photograph or graphic.

The TWO slides below are here to show you how real magazines use these features, so READ THEM.

Dps labelling features from engmisskp

AS Media mark scheme (pages 57-60)

As you make improvements from your first draft, use the mark scheme on pages 57-60 to self-assess your work and check that you have met all of the requirements.

AS Media Studies Markscheme

First Drafts: Peer-assess, Feedback and your 'Plan of Action'.

Read these instructions right to the end, before you get to work.

1. Look at and evaluate each of your peers' front cover, contents page, and double page spread
2. Jot down a WWW and an EBI comment for each, as you look (for the front cover, contents page and double page spread)
3. Post your comments on your peers' blogs, underneath the post of their first draft.  Comments should be specific and constructive.  The most helpful EBI comments are the ones with specific suggestions for improvement
4. Once you have got your peer feedback, create a blog post that summarises some of the most useful WWW and EBI comments   
5. Use the comments and feedback to create your 'PLAN OF ACTION' (see coursework schedule), and post this to your blog.

If you want a grid to use whilst taking notes for steps 1 and 2, then click here and print it.

Teacher Feedback

Once you have received your teacher feedback, you need to record it in the form of a blog post.  Reflect on your teacher feedback: use the teacher feedback and your peers' comments to create your 'plan of action'.

See how Jack Green recorded his teacher feedback, below:

Teacher Feedback

Recording and acting on your feedback.

You may wish to take inspiration from Jack Green's blog when it comes to recording and acting on feedback.

Consider that his first draft contents page started like this:

And ended up like this:

As a result of his feedback.

Jack records the feedback he gave to his peers here.

He records and REFLECTS on feedback on his own work, here

Jack then writes up a plan of action.

After this, he sets himself weekly targets.  Here is an example.

He then tracks the exact process of reaching his target for the week.  He clearly outlines what influences his decisions, and shows his thought processes, here.

Forgetting something? POST YOUR FIRST DRAFT TO YOUR BLOG.

You should have POSTED YOUR FIRST DRAFT TO YOUR BLOG, as well as handed in a paper copy.


Post your first draft to your blog, if you have forgotten to do this!

DO IT NOW.