DIRT 7

The Big Issue

- social. cultural or a political contexts may be used.

-the big issue is a niche magazine

-two front covers of the big issue need to be studied

- after September 2018 preferably

-front covers should demonstrate alternatives to the mainstream and of national significance

Colours
Layout
Images
Font
Typography

Costume
Lighting
Actors
Makeup
Props
Setting

Frame
Angle
Movement

Circulation - number of sales of a magazine
Readership - not just who buys a magazine but the total number of people likely to read it.
Mass audience - readership on a very scale
Niche audience - narrow group of readers with a particular interest.

intertextuality - promoting multiples things within the same medium.

Masthead - title of the maggy
Plug
Puff - story given prominence on the cover
Cover star - star on cover
Anchorage text - text that anchors the main image
Banner - text that runs across the top of the cover.

producer - advertisers - audience

advertising account for 70% of magazine income.

small circulation means more dependent on advertising.

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Tabloid vs Broadsheet

Tabloid
-Images
-One main headline
-Pun titles
-Gossip
-Less formal
-Less informative
-Colourful
- Big font sizes

Broadsheet
-More informative
-One main image
-Bigger size generally
-Subheadings
-Titles
-More trustworthy

There are many differences between a tabloid and a broadsheet, this can be seen visually by the pictures to the right with the first and more colourful one being a tabloid and the second being a broadsheet.

First difference in the two as previously mentioned is the way it is presented like how the tabloid front cover has a colourful picture with the main headline taking up pretty much the entire paper while the broadsheet also has a picture that takes up a lot of the paper however its main headline is a lot smaller and the majority of the front cover is sub text that is a lot more informative than all of the headings that are being presented on the tabloid, so that a broadsheet is seen as a lot more formal than the tabloid because around 25% of the paper is covered by a picture while the remaining 75% is covered with headings and informative text.

Also with tabloids the news that is presented is seen as not useful and completely uninformative because most of the time it is information like celebrity gossip this is called soft news which is something you wouldn't expect would make it in the news while with a broadsheet it displays what you would call hard news which is what you would expect to be the main story and is seen as more serious than tabloids.

Online newspapers

Advantages of online newspapers

- Environmentally friendly?
- Live updates
- Your own personal account to choose topics - personalising it
-Accessibility - phones, tablets, pcs more pactical
- free
- contact papers quickly
- comments on news stories
- more interactive, video
- easy to share articles

Disadvantages

- Holding something
- Internet needed
- can't keep the story
- less accessible for older generations
- much more information in newspapers
- website crashes, technical errors
- pop ups
- eye strain

Ghost Ship

In the opening scene of Ghost Ship we hear the happy, smooth jazz playing as the camera pans around the ship in a birds eye camera angle, this sets a juxtaposition for the scenes just to come because although it portrays a relaxed and joyful occasion for 2 and half minutes the film itself is far from joyous because it is marketed as a horror film.

Music at 2:40 turns quite haunted to indicate the impending horrors that are about to massacre the passengers, the music coupled with the change in lighting to high key to low key represents the somber tone the movie is about to make with the camera focusing on the loose wire that is going to become a terrifying murder weapon

Mise en scene

Camera Shots and Angles