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1. Big Issue Group Analysis
L/O: to analyse a range of covers in groups

2. Media Language + Representation + Context
MEDIA LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION CONTEXT
Genre
Genre conventions
-reinforced or subverted?
Codes (a sign with meaning)
Technical codes:
Camera
(shot/angle/composition)
Mise-en-scene (CLAMPS)
Editing
Narrative – is a ‘narrative’ created?
Intertextuality
How the following are represented….
People
Subjects
Events
Themes
Places
Positive or negative representation?
Satire?
Social
Cultural
Historical
Political
Economical
How does the big issue
reflect the contexts?
And/or…
Context of magazine – the
ethos/agenda of magazine
(i.e. hand up not hand out,
left wing etc)

3. 10 marks or 15 marks
10 marks 15 marks
Analysis of media language and/or representation
Application/link to contexts
Analysis of media language and/or representation
Application/link to contexts
+
5 marks for your ‘judgement’
(it’s difficult to prepare for this but you are being
marked on your ability to ‘make a judgment’
Ie.
‘make judgements and reach a conclusion about the advantages of…..’
or
How far are the representations of masculinity stereotypical?

4. Satire – let’s review
• Write your definition and give example

5. Satire – let’s review
• the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize
people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics
and other topical issues.
• Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in
which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with
the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into
improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater
purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both
particular and wider issues in society.
• Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including internet
memes, literature, plays, commentary, television shows, and media such as lyrics.

6. The episode successfully shows how TV channels
exaggerate a news in order to boost their business and
how people believe in anything that is shown on TV.
SIMPSONS (venus de milo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbx4DM1s9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGFaOeUm2A
https://www.quora.com/What-Simpsons-episodes-used-satire-
the-best-and-why

7. Satire used often in Big Issue!
• Challenging dominant ideology or ‘dominant mainstream culture’
• Challenging and subverting conventions
• Typical in political and social issues – often seen in political comics
• Genre of magazine – entertainment + social business
• Links to magazine ethos and left wing agenda

8. Good answer analysis (what we discussed)
• Establishing genre and overall purpose/approach of magazine (intro statement)
• And…
• A brief sentence to answer question
• PEA structure for paragraphs (media lang + representation)
• Try to analyse image AND text
• Might mention effect or engagement of audience
• Context throughout response if possible
• How the cover reflects social/cultural/historical/political/economical
• Context of the ethos of magazine
• Might compare to other types of magazines (ie conventions – how they differ
from commercial magazines)

9. As a class….
One of the hottest summers on record is about to get
hotter as the Trump cavalcade comes to the UK this week.
We get the inside scoop on how to chill out with the
definitive history of ice cream.

10. Groups for analysis
1 2 3 4 5
Aidan
Christian
Niko
Jack
Matt
Ismail
Mahdi
Ubayd
Joe
Abe
Phil
Max
Tom
Wajahat

14. As he takes the big chair, we look at whether any of
Donald Trump’s policies will be positive. We also have
legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein – a man
whose investigation brought down a crooked president –
analysing the leader of the free world. He’s not altogether
positive..

16. Media Language + Representation + Context
MEDIA LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION CONTEXT
Genre
Genre conventions
-reinforced or subverted?
Codes (a sign with meaning)
Technical codes:
Camera
(shot/angle/composition)
Mise-en-scene (CLAMPS)
Editing
Narrative – is a ‘narrative’ created?
Intertextuality
How the following are represented….
People
Subjects
Events
Themes
Places
Positive or negative representation?
Social
Cultural
Historical
Political
Economical
How does the big issue
reflect the contexts?
And/or…
Context of magazine – the
ethos/agenda of magazine
(i.e. hand up not hand out,
left wing etc)

17. A useful revision tool
• You can look up issues and see article content:
• https://www.bigissueshop.com/products/issue-1292-we-need-to-talk
• https://www.bigissueshop.com/products/issue-1293-a-suffragette-century-freda
• https://www.bigissueshop.com/products/issue-1289-we-are-here
• https://www.bigissueshop.com/products/issue-1315-flake-news
• https://www.bigissueshop.com/product/issue-1239-trump-whats-the-worst-that-could-happen
• Other issues we’ve studied:
• https://www.bigissueshop.com/product/issue-1323-class-action
• https://www.bigissueshop.com/products/Issue-1271-The-Great-British-Bake-Off and
https://www.bigissue.com/magazines/great-british-bake-off-mighty-bouche/