A level media

Write up a description of the main differences between the two front pages from The Guardian and The Daily Mail, looking at both conventions and how the stories have been presented to the reader. On the guardians front page they use the colour yellow to represent the paradise paper story, there is bits of yellow all over the front cover of the guardian, they also have palm tree's and the sun, which are pictures of 'paradise'. The guardian has one main visual image which is of the queen. The view of this newspaper is left wing and the comments made on this are negative towards the queen, as if they were attacking her. The yellow links to exposure and it is highlighted so it stands out to the reader. On the daily mails front page there is just 'QUEEN DRAGGED INTO £10M OFFSHORE TAX ROW' with no main visual image of the queen herself, it is just a picture of the actress Millie Bobbie Brown. The queen is seen to be the victim in this as the verb 'dragged' put...

Lucozade: Gareth Bale The thing that is being sold in this advert is a sports drink called Lucozade. Lucozade is a soft drink, manufactured by a Japanese company 'Suntory' and marketed as a range of sports and energy drinks, the drink Lucozade was introduced in 1927. The drink would usually cost around £1 in the UK. The target audience would be fans of Gareth Bale or people who enjoy energy drinks or just Lucozade. The target audience would involve Gareth Bale fans as they would be interested in what companies he is working with and if they look up to him then they would buy this drink as they would want to be similar to their role model.  The representations that are evident in the advert is Gareth Bale who is well known football player who played for Real Madrid and Wales, he is also a young man who is attractive and has manly features. The colour scheme of the advert us yellow, blue and white and with this his eyes are more exaggerated to join in with the colour sche...

How many organisations own national newspapers and do any companies own more than one title? If so, are these titles linked together? companies do own more than one newspaper and the titles are linked together, for example the express newspaper ltd are called daily star and daily express. News international(Rupert Murdoch):  sun, times, Sunday times, sun on Sunday(news of the world) Daily mail and daily trust:  mail, mail on Sunday Northern and shell(Richard Desmond):  express, express on Sunday, star Trinity mirror plc:  mirror, Sunday mirror, Sunday people, daily record Telegraph group(Barclay brothers:  daily telegraph, Sunday telegraph(the businesses) Guardian media group(Scott trust):  guardian, observer Nikkei (brought from Pearson):  financial times Which companies own regional newspaper titles? Look at newspapers that you may be familiar with such as The Leicester Mercury. The Leicester Mercury is owned by trinity mirror. Bi...

Daily Mail: read the article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4943868/Footage-shows-boy-killing-homeless-man-one-punch.html  The stereotype: teenagers are violent, and the man was 'defenseless' In this article the teenage boy that is represented in this is the stereotype that all teenagers are 'violent' and that elderly people are 'defenseless' this is the typical stereotype of both teenagers and elderly people. In the news article there is footage of what happened. With the news story the journalist's make the teenage boy a lot more violent than what the real life thing was, and this could also be the same for the elderly man, as he is labelled as 'defenseless' he could've tried to fight back, but they would twist the story to make it look more violent and it makes the story more appealing to others. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5022591/Video-shows-bystanders-taking-photos-unconscious-woman.html The stereo...

The daily mail: The stories that the daily mail produce are usually exaggerated and this helps produce more income and money for the daily mail. This helps protect the revenue and profits for the communities. Most of the stories produced are about celebrities to make them more modern and appeal to a wider audience. To help with make more money near the top of the page, just below the first main story there is a box that has their social media tags on and says 'follow us' so if someone shares the daily mail then their family/friends may read it and this could help contribute to produce more of the income. The daily mail prompt readers to read their online newspapers as through social media they promote it in a way that is eye catching. On social media networks such as snapchat they have stories and one of them is the daily mail and this would help promote their stories as they would want to read more stories with the daily mail. I think that because they're advertisi...

   Morrissey is the main visual image of this issue, The picture of morrissey is in black and white and this makes him stand out against the orange background. Around Morrissey there are names and lyrics of songs from his band 'the smiths' There are different styles of font and because they're a indie band they want to show that they're different from other bands. Morrissey is described as 'cantankerous British icon' and this could be the selling line for people and helps bring attention to the people that don't usually buy the big issue. The first thing you notice about this magazine is the colours, this is because they're bright and very noticeable. The contrast from pink to blue makes Liam stand out more also the name 'liam' is in bold and white to makes the celebrity stand out. Gallahger's facial expression is serious which contrasts from the colours as they're 'happy' colours. The magazine also adverti...

Analyse why The Big Issue magazine has used an intertextual approach to the referendum on its front cover. How does the intertextuality create meaning in this source? This magazine was made a week before the EU referendum  Abba reference: -the politicians are wearing abba outfits and it's their bodies.  -there are references to the abba songs and the lyrics from their songs.  -'the winner takes it all' is a reference to one of Abba's hit singles. -the lyrics from the songs have been changed to fit the 'topic' of the front cover,  for example 'knowing me, knowing you' is changed to 'knowing me, knowing EU' In this ABBA is representing the politicians Nicole Sturgeon, David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.