Research on TV Listings Magazines.

To be able to create a successful media TV listings magazine, I had to research other existing magazines so I was able to educate myself on the conventions of these typical media products. Therefore I had to look at every aspect of these particular magazines and find similarities and difference between them.

Firstly I explored the internet for different existing TV listings magazines so I was able to analyse them thoroughly. Here are some of the most popular TV listing magazines available in the market today:-

·         What’s on TV

·         TV Easy

·         TV choice

·         TV Quick
·         TV Mag

 

I took a few font covers for the same magazines to see how they varied within themselves. Even from just looking at theses magazine I was able to indentfy the clear conventions and similarites they all share. For example:-

·         They all have blue background

·         They all mainly have title of the magazine in the left hand top corner which is very eyecatching to the target audience/

·         Colour photographs which fill up the magazine- this helps to attract the target audience as they are familiar with the characters faces and what programme they are in.

·         They all have big headlines and straplines

·         All contain pugs

·         The price stand outs

·         Very colourful (attract the target audiences eye

·         Mass audiences

·         Coverlines

·         Date, region and issue number

·         Barcode

·         Masthead
·         Taglines

Therefore by researching all of these magazines I am able to use the conventions when creating my own TV listings magazines. I am able to create a check list so that I ensure all the conventions of this particular genre of magazine in included in my own one for my soap so that it can be a successful media product.