The document discusses the creation of a listings magazine review for a documentary. Key points:
- Images and individual interviews were included to make the review eye-catching and aesthetically pleasing.
- Similar engaging language from a previous review was used to make the review interesting for readers.
- The review featured columns, images, interviews, and audience responses from around the UK. It also included a star rating system.
- A variety of audience responses were selected to give readers a broad view of the documentary, not just one opinion.
- Time Out magazine was chosen for the review's distribution since it uses enjoyable language and targets a wide, diverse audience, which was important for broadly advertising the documentary
1. OBSESSIVE
GENERATIONS
I started my listings magazine review with
a catchy introduction and an image of
myself as director included along with
individual images of the interviewees.
By Emily Maunder
I decided to use images in order
to make the article eye catching
and aesthetically pleasing for
the reader.
2. I decided to use similar language to my
research review “Last night’s TV’ because I
personally believed the language was
engaging for the reader and also different
when compared to other reviews from
listing magazines, for example Shortlist
which I thought personally was very straight
to the point, although this is good for
informing the reader about the film I wanted
to make sure that my review was as
interesting and engaging as possible.
However when further research was
followed I found out that Shortlist has a
target market of men. And therefore would
not be suitable for my documentary
advertisement.
3. The format of my listings magazine
review it involved using columns,
images and various interviews and
responses from the audience all
around the UK.
I also presented this with a rating
system of stars which was something
that stood out immediately to the
audience as well as giving the
documentary a good representation
for the readers.
I decided to use the interview
responses that gave the audience a
broad view of the documentary and
not just a specific opinion about one
part of the documentary, I wanted to
ensure that my readers could get a
feel for the documentary and use
responses that where influential.
4. I have now completed my first ancillary which is a listings
magazine review and when researching about what distributer my
review would be used by I decided on using Time Out, this is
because I personally enjoyed the language used, as well as their
target audience who are both young and working. I wanted to
target my audience to a broad audience and therefore wanted to
use a listings magazine that targets a wide audience and not a
specific age, gender or social group.
Time Out is also a listings magazine that has a various amount of
information and therefore targets a very broad audience.
This is something I felt was most important
when advertising my documentary.