Friday, 29 March 2019
Friday, 22 March 2019
Minecraft Timeline
10th May 2009 - Development on Minecraft begins
17th May 2009 - Minecraft is born
13th June 2009 - preorders begin
16th August 2011 - Minecraft PE released
18th November 2011 - MineCon used to release Minecraft 1.0
9th May 2012 - Minecraft Xbox 360 release
15th September 2014 - Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5 billion dollars
20th September 2014 - Minecraft becomes the best selling PC game
10th January 2015 - 30million sales on Minecraft PE
30th June 2015 - 20million sales on minecraft PC
13th October 2015 - Minecraft story mode released
17th December 2015 - Minecrfat Wii U edition released
2nd June 2016 - Minecrfat sold over 100 million copies across all platforms and become one of the best selling games ever
27th June 2016 - MInecrfat announces release of minecraft the movie
10th December 2017 - Minecrfat hits 74 million hits
17th May 2009 - Minecraft is born
13th June 2009 - preorders begin
16th August 2011 - Minecraft PE released
18th November 2011 - MineCon used to release Minecraft 1.0
9th May 2012 - Minecraft Xbox 360 release
15th September 2014 - Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5 billion dollars
20th September 2014 - Minecraft becomes the best selling PC game
10th January 2015 - 30million sales on Minecraft PE
30th June 2015 - 20million sales on minecraft PC
13th October 2015 - Minecraft story mode released
17th December 2015 - Minecrfat Wii U edition released
2nd June 2016 - Minecrfat sold over 100 million copies across all platforms and become one of the best selling games ever
27th June 2016 - MInecrfat announces release of minecraft the movie
10th December 2017 - Minecrfat hits 74 million hits
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
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
Conventions of The Big Issue: Colous, celebrities, intertextuality, Puns/language, challenges political influencers
Friday, 15 March 2019
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