MagazineDouble Page Spread

The software we used to make our double page spread was

InDesign

When researching TV listing Magazines we found that the TV& Satelite magazine

suited our documentary, Radio trailer and target audience the best.

Just like the real media products we

researched in to we decided to have one big

picture at the top left hand corner. We

thought it was important to follow this

convention as the reader is attracted by the

picture first and if they see this first then they

maybe attracted to the magazine article. It

also highlights the target audience we are

attracting which is the young generation as

we have used them in the picture. When

reading a magazine you also look at the left

page first this is why it was important to have

the main attraction on the left at the top.

Majority of the TV listing magazines

have other documentaries featured on

the page rather then just one. However

we challenged this convention as we

wanted to our article to be the main

focus and one way of doing this was to

not include any other documentaries on

the page.

Unlike the magazine we researched

we included more then two pictures of

the documentary. One of the reasons

is to entice the reader more as

pictures a lot more effective to

convince the reader to watch the

documentary compared to words.

Another reason we did this is because

we wanted to keep the article short

and simple as its pleasant for the

reader to read it and so that the article

just stays on the bottom of the page.

A convention we followed was

to have a strip across the top of

the page to tell the readers that

this page was for

documentaries so its clear to

them.

We also included a pull out quote in

our article even though it wasn’t

included in the magazine we based

our article on. We decided to

include it because it entices the

reader into reading the article. It

also highlights a main point that is

discussed in the documentary.

Other conventions we followed was page

numbers to navigate the reader through the

documentary, the name of the magazine at

the bottom to promote the magazine

throughout. We also included the name of the

documentary and the date/time it will be

premiered. The name of the documentary has

bigger font to make it stand out, another

technique we used to highlight the

information was to have two colored lines to

box of the information. The color will also

attract the reader’s eyes making sure they

see this information.