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
· 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
· 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.
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