The big issue style
Despite not originally having a distinctive style, the big issue is distinctive and instantly recognizable in its design
What is the weekly circulation of TBI?-80,000
What is TBI in convention?-Niche
What elements of CRAIL are assessed?-Campaigning against injustice
What is the House style?-It had no specific house style, constantly changing masthead place and color
What is there political leaning?-They are not apart of a party but are politically socialist
Why can TBI have different cover styles from other magazines?- The cover is not designed for selling as many as possible and rather to help there retailers
What is intertextuality?-References to other media texts
Why do TBI employ so much intertextuality?-Its ABC1 audiences like to find these clues codes and conventions
What is representation?-How something is being presented to you
Who set up TBI and why? John Bird, in an attempt to help homeless people out of poverty
What we need to know for your Big Issue question:
- Media representation
- Media representation(how images and words are used to construct representation)
- Social, cultural and political contexts
- The product, itself. Aim to read some copies of TBI as part of your revision
Same - Purpose-inform, educate and entertain
- often eye-catching headlines
| Different - Newspapers published daily/ magazines are weekly or monthly
- Newspapers will often focus on print whereas magazine use images to attract attention
- printed on high-gloss paper magazines
- magazines are designed to keep longer
- magazines are generally soft news
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Why are front covers as a publication so important
- Fist thing a reader sees
- can determine whether a product is bought or not
- indicates a target audiences
- Indicates the genre of magazine
- helps the publication stand out from competitors
The Big Issue is what is referred to as a "street magazine"
Magazine conventions
masthead-magazines name
tagline-
slogan-the mags motto
date line- the date the magazine was produced
featured article- stories in the magazine
central image- the main image of the magazine
cover lines-
color palette- the choice of colors in the magazines cover
Barcode- the scannable code for sale
price line- shows how much the magazine costs
composition and layout- the choice layout of the magazine as well as font size image placement
typography- the style of font as well as color and contrast
Mode of address- whether the magazine is formal, informal or in what person 1st 2nd 3rd
shot types and angles- the choice of image and what it is meant to represent
Dull plain background to focus more on the celebrity
Celebrity in the foreground cover title in the background
Name in large bold eye-catching letters
Stance not typical of a model
Uneven and wonky writing
Why is The Big Issue different?
The big issue is seen as a hand up not a hand down top the homeless who act as the magazines vendors, buying the magazines for £2 and sell it for £4
The magazine tries to get homeless people back on track by making them become independent and earn money
the strive to dismantle poverty through self help and providing jobs.
They were set up in 1991
What is the purpose of The Big Issue
In terms of its values, the editorial content is almost always critical of big business and banking, they champion the role of the individual and will focus on personal and social issues that appear in society
the covers will tend to convey the left wing news points of the editors
It could be argued that they do not properly represent minorities and females as many of there covers tend to be on white males.
The argument against this is that when women and minorities are represented it is normally in a positive light.
The homeless as well as different sexualities' and religions are celebrated
| Why has the big issue selected this individual to be on their front cover | What topics are referenced on the front cover | What does the front cover reveal about the big issue |
| They have chosen to do a story on Marcus Rashford because of his work with getting more school lunches for children during lockdown, as the government had planned to cut the programme | The refer to his OBE as well as calling him the people's champion showing all he had done for the people They also have positive stories about exercise as well as pets | It shows its support of the individual and what one person can do. furthermore it supports the ideals of the big issue that say that big business and greed affect the poorest in society the most |
| Because he is a well known figure who can attract readers, furthermore he will have similar ideals to the magazine | Nods to the homeless Stories of football very light hearted stories | |
| | More social awareness stories such as lack of vaccination for the homeless | |
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