Big Issue

・political, social and cultural context.
・Niche magazine outside the commercial mainstream.


C lift                 C ostumes                    F rame
L ayout                L ocation/ lighting          A ngle
I mage                 A ctors                      M ovement
F ont                  M akeup 
T ypography            P rops
                       S etting


Key Terms:

Circulation-    number of copies a magazines sells 

Readership-  not just who buys a magazine but the total number of people likely to read it. 

Mass Audience-   readership on a very large scale.

Niche Audience-  narrow group of readers with a particular interest.

Subscription-   where a reader pays for a set number of copies of a magazine in advance at a lower price and receives them by post.

Intertextuality-  Big issue- one media text with early men- another media text.