TV LISTINGS MAGAZINE PROJECT

In class we were asked to design a TV listings Magazine. In this task we designed each of our front covers by choosing a price (posh, average, tacky) and then we would base the design on which type we chose. I chose posh, because I thought my magazine front page did not look tacky and that it actually looked quite expensive compared to some of the already existing magazines I have seen. Such as, Radio times, tv quick and tv choice. Radio Times, was the posh top of the range one and personally I preferred it.

One of the other reasons I chose to design a top of the range magazine was because I actually preferred the kind of style the more expensive magazines have, and actually rather disliked the bright colours on the tacky cheap magazines. I also chose not to put a picture of a soap star on the front because I thought it would look more original if some more unknown programme was on the front.

For my main feature I chose Iwan Rheon because he is in a programme called ‘Misfits’, he is named Simon and this programme is actually a very popular programme for people in my sort of age range, so my target market was more leaned towards teenagers or early twenties then the adults. Iwan Rheon, is also very appealing to my generation, so it would also maybe attract my age range more. For my title I chose to use a basic one so I didn’t take too much attention away from the actual theme of my magazine, so in conclusion to this thought I named it ‘Telly Times’. The background of my design was a blue texture that looked kind of like carpet, I chose it because I thought it suited the rest of my magazine very well, and went well with the picture of Simon. My colour scheme was invented by mainly darker colours like dim reds, faded blues, blacks and greys. Another element I used was too match the style of writing to this theme, I used a kind of rough looking writing.