1. Radio Trailer To ensure that our radio trailer was worth listening to and would not lose the interest of listeners, we made sure that all the sound bites that we used were of a good sound quality. We tried to use interesting extracts from our interviews which represented effectively what the documentary is about. The voiceover was female again to tie in with the voiceover of the documentary. We used the voiceover in a way to capture the attention of the listener by being loud and thought probing. While the voiceover comes in very little, it questions the listener on their own habits and thoughts in relation to appearance. It invites them to watch the documentary and form their own opinions and to be enlightened by it. It gives the date, time, and channel that the documentary will be aired clearly and at the end of the radio trailer rather than the start so that it will stick in the persons mind. Article By looking at other magazine articles, we learnt and could copy common conventions of the type of article you would expect to see in a TV listings guide. Many of the features of a regular article include: Drops caps, by lines, masthead, image captions, text, columns, images, date and title of magazine, image effects such as rotations and drop shadows, and a clear indication of when the programme being advertised will air. In our article we used a variety of images to make the article seem exciting and eye catching. We also used a pale blue background rather than a plain white to brighten up the page by adding more colour. We used slight rotations on some of our pictures to liven up the layout of the magazine and made sure that our text was in columns as this is an important, notable feature of all articles. We made it clear to any reader when the documentary was being shown by placing the information underneath the eye grabbing title, putting it in a bigger font than the article itself and bordering the information to make it stand out. We followed typical conventions like remembering to include the crediting for the images and the editor of the article, placing the page numbers along with the magazine title in the corners of the pages and using a stand first, which is the opening few sentences of an article. One thing that is seen often in magazines that we did not use was captions for the images in our article. We felt that they were unnecessary to our article and that the pictures were self explanatory however it may have been valuable to use image captions to make our product seem even more professional.

2. Drops cap Plenty of bright interesting and relating images Title and page number of magazine in each corner Image transitions: rotations to spice up layout Columns Pull Quote Masthead Stand first (the initial opening paragraph) By line (crediting) Dateline

3. Similarly to our article, this example taken from Radio Times also uses plenty of colour in a subtle way and appears to be equally dominated by images and text. The text is columned and uses a drops cap at the start. A stand first and masthead are included as is the name of the TV magazine and date of issue on each page, the page number, and a by line. This magazine article differs from ours as we wrote our article as a question and answer interview in which the documentary producers explained and endorsed the documentary. This article on the other hand is an interview, but with an actor from a popular show who is promoting a new series. Features which we used in our magazine article that were not used here are a pull quote and a clear dateline. Stand first Drops cap Masthead By line Plenty of bright and interesting images Date and title of magazine Columns

4. Codes and conventions from the magazine article and radio trailer specifically chosen to appeal to target audience: We decided that our article would be placed in Fabulous magazine, a TV guide supplement that comes with The Sun, as it is targeted at women so our article would slot in perfectly. We decided to use a female voiceover as we felt this reinforced that the documentary was targeted at a female audience. Codes and conventions not used in TV doc: One feature of some TV documentaries that we chose not to use was to have an on-screen narrator. We have seen this portrayed in documentaries such as Supersize me. We decided that seeing as our documentary was based around the portrayal and pressures of our looks, by having an on-screen narrator it would be very difficult to dress them without appearing to adhere to a stereotypical or desired look that is desired by many women. We could not have depicted a sloppy scruffy narrator either as this would make the nature of our documentary seem humorous, so we opted to just have a voiceover. Another decision we made was to keep the transitions of the documentary simple – the only transition we used between clips was a fade to signify a change in topic or a new chapter. We thought that adventurous transitions such as wipes, ripples and dissolves would make our documentary seem unprofessional. We also did not use graphics in our documentary as our content was mature and serious, so if it contained amusing graphics and animations it might appear to lack in importance. Animations and On-screen narrator as shown in ‘Supersize Me’ were not used in our documentary.