2. What is a Listing Magazine?
• A listings magazine is a magazine which contains information
about the upcoming week's events such as
• Broadcast programming,
• Music,
• Clubs,
• Theatre
• Film information; examples include Time Out magazine in the
UK and TV Guide in the US.
• These are normally published either with a Saturday or
Sunday newspaper or are published weekly or fortnightly to
give information about upcoming events. They also normally
include columns about TV and culture topics.
3. What kind of things are there in a
Listing Magazine?
• Advertisement – e.g.: house selling
• Community
• Organisations
• House and Gardening
• Eats & Drinks
• Health & Beauty
• Business
• Useful numbers
• Activities to attend
• What’s on?
4. Who is the audience/target
audience? How do you know?
Who is Target Audience?
• Age: 30-50
• Ethnicity: English, Irish, Welsh
• Jobs: Retired, gardeners
• Hobbies: Gardening, health interests
• Gender: Male and Female
• A mature audience
Why?
• Lengthy text
• No styled writing
• Cover being a concurs representing a season
• Darker colours
• Fonts are big
• Activities and advertisement are for an older audience – activities
like: ……… Advertisement: Timber Restorations
5. How is the magazine organised/structured?
- Has a welcome - Community participations - Organisation -Eats and Drinks
first page and activities • Activities, church • Recipes, butchers, resta
• Events, house times, health urants, food and
organisations, community activities, social wine, party booking
choral, art crafts centres clubs, offers, country offers
etc…
- Organisation - Healthy and Beauty - Business - Organisation
• Activities, church • Gym, health • Advices, solicitors, TO • Activities, church
times, health classes, clubs, treat LET, accountancy times, health
activities, social ments, dental, mass vacancies activities, social
clubs, what’s on ages. clubs,
- Home and Gardens - Useful numbers
• Window • Numbers of plumbers, electricians, funeral
services, restorations, ti services, schools, doctors, charities, churches, police
ps on plants, furniture station, library, leisure, health, transport, councils
selling, etc…
6. Where could your double-page spread, which is an
article that features your documentary, fit it?
My multicultural representation could fit in between the
Community sections because
• Relates to the community
• Talks about the people
• Involves media in a broad audience
• Its an overall topic
• Appropriate for people in a community
What are most of the pages about in the
magazine?
Community pages because:
• Relates to the audience
• Talks about the community
• Offers
• Help for the society
7. By looking at the adverts, what do they
advertise? (products, services?)
In The Listing Magazine they advertise more “Services”.
Advertise:
• Plumbing and heat services
• Plastering
• Interior designers
• Cleaning windows
• Timber restoration
• Chimney sweeping
• Funeral services
• PC helpers
8. Where is the magazine available?
Price of a double page spread?
• Prices for advertising your business start from just £30 (plus
VAT).
Niche or mass audience? Why?
• Niche audience as it goes for an older audience
• The subjects are very limited
