The Big Issue

Question 1

What do we focus on when we look at the Big Issue?

Answer 1

Representation and media language

Question 2

What type of business is the BI?

Answer 2

A social enterprise

Question 3

What is the aim for the BI?

Answer 3

To drive social change and help people affected by poverty.

Question 4

When did the BI launch?

Answer 4

1991

Question 5

What is their mission statement?

Answer 5

To dismantle poverty

Question 6

Who are the magazines sold by?

Answer 6

People affected by poverty

Question 7

Why are the vendors micro-entrepreneurs?

Answer 7

They buy the magazine for £2.25 and sell it for £4.50

Question 8

What is the BI’s readership?

Answer 8

400k

Question 9

What type of magazine is the BI?

Answer 9

Niche magazine

Question 10

What fonts are used in magazines traditionally?

Answer 10

Serif font

Question 11

Why do we use serif font for printing material?

Answer 11

It is easier to read

Question 12

What is a tagline?

Answer 12

A short slogan to attract the audience

Question 13

What is a masthead?

Answer 13

Shows the logo/title clearly

Question 14

What is a graphic\blob?

Answer 14

A way to break up the page

Question 15

What is a splash image?

Answer 15

Main image - stands out

Question 16

What are cover lines?

Answer 16

Gives the audience an inside into the magazine

Question 17

What is a lead story?

Answer 17

Something big and interesting which will draw the audience in?

Question 18

What does the audience of the BI have?

Answer 18

A social conscience

Question 19

In the magazine, what does Rishi’s costume represent?

Answer 19

It is mocking manual labour and it is blue which shows he is part of the Conservative Party.

Question 20

In the magazine, how is Rishi represented as ‘human pollution’?

Answer 20

By the petrol pumps in his hands and this is also because the political climate is shifting.

Question 21

What does the image of HS2 in a bin link to?

Answer 21

The political context because Rishi Sunak announced the abandonment of HS2.

Question 22

What can HS2 suggest?

Answer 22

Levelling of North and South divide

Question 23

What else do the fuel dispensers link to in the magazine?

Answer 23

The political context of how he plans to push back the ban on new petrol cars.

Question 24

What does the petrol spraying out of the dispensers in Rishi’s hands represent in the magazine?

Answer 24

How he is wasting petrol which is negative especially in a ‘Cost Of Living’ crisis.

Question 25

In the magazine, there are bins in the background, how does this link to the context of what he has said?

Answer 25

He suggested that households needed 7 rubbish and recycling bins to standardise waste collection.

Question 26

What does the fire represent in the magazine?

Answer 26

How Rishi Sunak's plans are going for the future e.g his net zero goal by 2050

Question 27

What does RS's NVC suggest in the magazine?

Answer 27

That he is happy about all the things he is doing e.g HS2 abandonment

Question 28

What does the Triple 'truth, reality and what comes next'? position the magazine as?

Answer 28

As trustworthy and this impowers the magazine

Question 29

What does the dark clouds in the magazine suggest?

Answer 29

Pathetic fallacy - something bad is going to happen

Question 30

The masthead of the BI, how does the link to the origin and context of the magazine?

Answer 30

Its mission and how it is a social enterprise

Question 31

In the magazine, what does the dog help and show?

Answer 31

Helps to humanise the man and shows the relationship between the two

Question 32

What does the monochromic background reflect in the magazine of the BI?

Answer 32

Sadness and grief - the man doesn't have a safe place that they can call home.

Question 33

What does the colour red of the masthead imply?

Answer 33

Sense of emergency - there is an urgent matter to be dealt with

Question 34

How much does homelessness rise by a year as the housing emergency deteriorates?

Answer 34

14%

Question 35

What does the vendor and the dog represent in the magazine?

Answer 35

The relationship between them - Dog is a man's best friend and the social context that is known as dog lovers and this conforms to stereotypes.

Question 36

When did this magazine come out and why is this significant?

Answer 36

In winter as temperatures dropped and energy bills went up.

Question 37

Why in winter did the BI see an increase in people applying to be a vendor?

Answer 37

Cost of living crisis and at Christmas which represents how people do struggle at the time of the year

Question 38

What does the man on the cover imply?

Answer 38

That there are more men affected by poverty and need support

Question 39

What does 'tales of survival and hope ' suggest in the magazine?

Answer 39

That they are surviving the winter and have hope they will be able to have a home one day.