The Big Issue

 

London Eye - Indexical of London - Symbolises rich

The shard - represents the rich and powerful

"Warm Up" - Homeless link

Strapline - Curran and Seaton

"Bumper Edition" - more expensive, more profit for homeless - giving on Christmas

Trees - indexical of Christmas 

Close up on Scrooges face - symbolic of government, anti capitalism

Shocked expression - cant believe how people are still treated today

Scrooge - indexical of Scrooge who wanted equality 

Candle - Symbolisms, the rich can afford warmth

Three young girls singing- Represent the lower class, the ones selling the magazine

Snow - winter - poor suffer the most in winter

Old font - old problem

"still living" and "Haunts us today" - poor still find it difficult. We should feel ashamed - Gauntlett

 

Strapline

Hair covers the masthead - symbolises how big he is

"I wanted to look after my mom" Shows he is a real person

"Do not give up" - Guantlett - how reader can feel determined

face made of shapes - looks like a puzzle

Colours of the sun and it is glowing around him

Just his face - what people see him as

Producer takes him seriously, they car more about him than politics

Looking pastviewer - symbolises they want to move to America

Both wearing red vests and mainly focused on faces - gender neutral

Palace - indexical - royal members

Holding The Big Issue magazine - supporting poor

Child drawing - makes us see the royal family less seriously - Gauntlett

Motivates the reader - you can become anything with enough work - Gauntlett 

Minecraft Research

In May of 2009, the Swedish developer began to create the sandbox game where gamers are free to extract raw materials, craft tools, items, build infrastructure, explore or do whatever they want. The endless worlds contains a variety of biomes from jungles, deserts, snow and more. Players can create nearly any structure imaginable due to the huge variety of blocks. Initially there were 2 game modes, creative and survival, but recently other modes such as Adventure, Spectator, Multiplayer and Story Mode have been added. It was officially released on the 18th of November 2011 by Mojang Studios.

Mojang did not spend any money on advertising but instead relied on magazines like Penny Arcade and gamers to spread the game.

The beta version of the game had been released on January in 2011 and had over 1 million purchases in the first month and by April $33 million of revenue had been made. 

Before the game was officially released, 4 million copies had been bought and 16 million users had registered.

Minecraft Pocket Edition was released on Sony Xperia Smartphones and not long after was released on Android and iOS.

Minecraft was released on Xbox 360 in 2012. 

In 2013 Minecraft Pi was released for educational purposes to novice programmers.

In May of 2017 Minecraft was released for Nintendo switch and it could be bought for the Nintendo 3DS in September of 2017.

Minecraft was initially released on disk from game stores but it is now mainly bought online where it is easier. The amount of Minecraft players is still increasing.

Minecraft has been a huge success with over 238 million copies being sold, making over $415 million which makes it the 2nd best selling video game of all time.

Timeline

17th October 2019 - Minecraft earth, a spin off to Minecraft, is released and free to play on Android and iOS.

26th May 2020 - Minecraft Dungeons, a spin off to Minecraft, is released to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows and Nintendo Switch.

30th June 2021 - Minecraft Earth shuts down because COVID 19 has made it impossible to keep free.

The PEGI age ratings are supposed to only allow people who 

Political allegiance

The Guardian - social liberal, social democratic, left-wind 

The Daily Mail - very right wing

The Sun - right wing

The Times - slightly right wing

The Daily Express - very right wing

The Star - slightly labour and right wing

The Independent - centre

The Telegraph - right wing

The Observer - social liberal, social democratic, left wing

The Mirror - left wing

The Guardian online news and news values

 

Gatekeeping - journalists decide what events should be published because they are the most important, the biggest or interesting.

Extraordinariness - A rare event like a tragedy is more likely to be published than a routine event because it is rare and will attract more readers. 

Threshold - Events which are bigger and more important are more interesting to publishers and readers.

Unambiguity - This title cannot be interpreted as anything other than Southern England is flooded. stories which are easy to understand from the title are more likely to be published by journalists than articles open to interpretation.

Reference to elite persons - people with more power are more likely to be featured because their view is deemed more important than those of regular people.

Personalisation - The event is made to look associated with the minister

 

Negativity - Bad news is used more by journalists because it is seen as more exciting and is more likely to attract a reader than an article on good news.  

The Daily Mail online news and news values

Gatekeeping - The journalist has decided that an article on a possible outbreak of Covid is newsworthy. 

Negativity - The negativity shown in this title and video creates excitement and strong feelings from the reader.  

Unambiguity - the heading of this story is simple "he's in the kitchen bleeding to death" which is straight to the point and cannot be interpreted in any other way than she doesn't care that he will die. 

Reference to elite persons - The famous and powerful are seen as more noteworthy by journalists as people are more likely to read an article about them than someone from the general public.

Extraordinariness - A rare event will have more news worthiness than everyday events and will most likely be picked by journalists.

Threshold - The bigger the event, the more likely it is to be reported nationally. A house explosion is uncommon and the article would raise concern for other houses which could possibly explode.

Personalisation - this is when an event is associated with a celebrity or leader by making it seem personal to them. 

Conventions of online news

 

Both news pages have their name in a large font at the top of the page to make it clear to the reader what paper they are reading.

Both online news pages contains the days weather on the home page so it is easy to find.

Both news pages have headings for different categories of news to make it easy to find the news they are interested in.

Both news pages have images of the top stories to attract readers to the most important news.

Media Institutions

The magazine is owned by Bauer, they have 200 million consumers in 14 different countries. Take a Break is an example of a mass audience. The preferred audience are middle aged and older women as it contains articles about gossip. The negotiated audience for this magazine is younger women because the stories wouldn't usually interest them. The oppositional audience would be younger and older men because they don't have enough time for puzzles and they don't tend to cook. This magazine has a webpage which creates technological convergence. The food recipes will have a convergence with a famous chef and weight watchers as women tend to eat healthy more than men. The repetition of this newspaper is that they all use primary colours, pink, red, yellow and blues. They also always contain gossip and shocking stories. Another repetition is the cash prizes that the readers can win. The difference in the magazines are the meals and the focus of the stories. 

This magazine is owned by Bauer. Simply you is aimed at mass audience. The preferred audience is older women as it contains how to look 15 years younger. The negotiated audience would be younger women as they do not need it as much but still might want to look younger in the future. The oppositional audience would be for men as they do not wear makeup and don't usually care about looking younger. This magazine has cross convergence with home workout and health tips as women want to stay healthy. The repetition in the magazines will be the ways to stay healthy.