Thursday, 21 March 2019

Magazine - The Big Issue

Language and representation

MCPAPS/CLIFTS/CLAMPS/FAM/Context

Keywords:
Circulation - number of copies a magazine sells
Readership - number of people likely to read the magazine 
Mass audience - readership on a very large scale
Niche audience - narrow group of readers with a particular interest 
Subscription - where a reader pays for a set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower cost
Intertextually - more than 1 media text (a movie cover on a magazine)

Plug - Text that ‘plugs’ a feature that will appear inside the magazine
Puff - a story that is given prominence on the cover
Cover star - a ‘star’ featured on the cover
Anchorage - text that anchors the main image and gives it context/meaning
Banner - text that runs across the lower section of the covers
Skyline - text that runs along the top of the cover 

Facts:
70% of money comes from advertising
100,000 copies of big issue are sold each week
2000 Big issue venders 
In 2013 they made more than £5 mil

Conventions of The Big Issue: Colous, celebrities, intertextuality, Puns/language, challenges political influencers 


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