The big issue revision- lesson 6

-

 How has covid affected the big issue?

  • Articles now focusing a lot more on mental health and how to improve it
  • Set up Big Issue RORA jobs and training to help create opportunities and provide job security
  • More mention on the NHS and respecting them
  • Using the Big Issue Shop as a way to bring in revenue
  • "find love in lockdown" issue- they have changed the type of stories to fit in with lockdown
  • Big Issue now sold in shops due to vendors being unable to sell on streets etc- McColl's and sainsburys outlets
  • They have been campaigning to make the big issue digital for now
  • "Customers will be able to purchase copies in 164 Sainsbury’s stores initially, extending to 315 over the coming weeks, and 1,430 McColl’s stores, for the price of £3. The Big Issue is also going to be launching an app"
The Guardian would publish a story about the big issue because it represents their liberal ideology and their values. The Guardian are more of a left wing paper who support equality and social work to help the vulnerable

Intertextuality:
  • Reference to other media texts
  • Big issue use this to attract readers and bring humour/emotion to the front cover
  • This makes the big issue uncnventional to mainstream magazines, who have a more serious front
  • Niche audience will recognise it
  • Intertextuality of ABBA- a popular pop/rock/disco band during the 70's to the 80's (audience will recognise them)
  • "decision time the winner takes it all" this is about who is going to win their decision of whether to remain or leave the EU
  • used the world (europe side) as a disco ball to play in with the intertextuality
  • Used song lyrics to maybe represent what the political leaders want to happen
  • Nicola Sturgeon "breaking up is never easy" might represent that she doesn't want to leave the EU- playful way of putting this


Analyse why the big issue magazine has used an intertextual approach to the political landscape of the moment on the front cover

  •  I think this front cover is about 'pinning' a national identity and standing up for who you are- punks usually are working class or youths who want equality, civil rights, health rights etc
  • Front cover is quite witty
  • Pink and yellow- sex pistols colour sheme- helps build brand identity and familiarize with audience
  • Big issue supports punk ideologies and gaining social and economic equality for all working class/ those who struggle
  • Might have included map of UK to show that the UK needs to change and realise that there is a lot of injustice out there that needs to be resolved
How to structure a response:
  • Make it clear we know what intertextuality is 
  • Explain why the big issue uses this often and link to niche audience
  • Identify intertextual references and explain what is being suggested through these references (colour, font, image)
  • How does the representations constructed support/minor the big issues ethos and ideology
  • Explain why it is advantagerous that the big issue use intertextuality





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Jungle book- 1967 VS 2016 Production

-
What are the differences in the timeline of production for Jungle Book 1967 and Jungle Book 2016? 2016: created on computers (CGI); focused more on Mowgli's background Animation version appears dated, in large part because it appears to use the Xeroxing Method, but that doesn't detract from the great story Disney had created. 1967: was 78 mins long- production costs and cinema running availability- not everyone has a TV (DVD)    2. What technologies were used on the 1967 production? They used a multiplane camera which created an illusion of depth which helped make animated films look more interesting and realistic.They won an engineering academy award. It had a sense of 3D depth in a cartoon setting.     3. What technologies were used on the 2016 production? They merged animal voice and human voice to make it sound real. They had virtual cameras and photograohed the creatures against a real background. Animals and backgrounds were craeted on computers.
Read more

Big issue front cover

-
Image
  I have chosen to do a NHS feature for my big issue cover because as the elections are coming up, a main proposal for left wing parties, especially labour are highlighting a NHS pay rise etc. This conveys with the Big Issue as although they don't follow a particular political stance, it is clear that they portray left-wing views and don't feature big businesses or banks, so to achieve this, having an NHS feature is very significant for the values and ethos of the big issue. I followed the Big issue house style and conventions by illustrating a powerful colour palette, through the rainbow and contrasts of yellow and blue make the cover stand out. For the background i used yellow to represent positivity an happiness, illustrating the 'sun' so that it can shine among the NHS staff. On this background i have engraved 'NHS' among it to make it seem unique and also give more appreciation to NHS and convey the values of Big Issue. I have chosen this specific cut-out o
Read more

Theory Project- research

-
  Gilroy- theories about ethnicity and post-colonialism OCR definition:   - The African diaspora caused by the slave trade has now constructed a transatlantic culture that is simultaneously African, American, Caribbean and British – the ‘Black Atlantic’.   - Britain has failed to mourn its loss of empire, creating ‘postcolonial melancholia’, an attachment to an airbrushed version of British colonial history, which expresses itself in  criminalising  immigrants and an ‘us and them’ approach to the world founded on the belief in the inherent superiority of white western  civilisation .   Context:   During 1500’s to the 1900’s there was a period of colonialism:   Colonialism - taking over another country to run and exploit it   - Britain did this a lot of countries such as India,  Caribbean , and parts of Africa by sailing  and  installing  their own  military ,  soldiers  and government to act as though they owned that country, leading the people to obey the B ritish. This was done in a
Read more