Normal conventions of a dps

Main headline/Lure: Bold and Black on a white background to stand out and suit Cosmopolitans House style of white, pink and black. It is also a catchy phrase using alliteration and ellipsis to lure the reader in.

Caption: Cosmopolitan logo showing a consistent house style and convention of Cosmo.

Images: Images of fashion with a main image of a woman (on the left) implying that the page is image led suiting Cosmopolitans target audience. Back grou nd: Plain white so that text and imag es stand out and it is not over crow ded. Suits hous e style

Quotation marks: Attract attention and keep in style of the house style and suit the target audience. Stand First: Introduction of article to gain interest of readers so they read further. Drop Capital: Bright pink and goes to 6 lines down to suit house style. Stands out to attract attention. Rule of thirds: Represents a consistent house style and convention of most magazines. (shown by blue lines) Flasher: Bright pink with white writing to suit house style and stand out. Draws attention to this feature of the article to gain interest.

By line: Common convention of a magazine and suits house style.

Main article: article about fashion suited to Cosmopolitans house style of including fashion articles and its target audience. Two columns of equal width and length suggesting a consistent house style with text size and font suitable for readers.

Although, Cosmopolitan had all of these important conventions of a magazine and the house style plus some of the topics could relate to our target audience, we didnt choose to base our double page spread on cosmopolitan. This is because the common topics featured in this magazine are: sex, relationships, beauty, fashion and health and so documentaries or any other TV shows are not commented on. We also chose not to use Cosmopolitan as a basis because it is stated that the magazine has a presumed audience of white women, therefore, the magazine may be too mature for our target audience of teenagers aged 14 19 years.

Background Information on Cosmopolitan:

Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s. Cosmopolitan has 64 international editions worldwide published in 35 languages with distribution in more than 100 countries making Cosmopolitan the largest-selling young women's magazine in the world. Editor-in-Chief Categories Frequency Total circulation (2011) First issue Company Country Language Website Joanna Coles[1] Female monthly 3,032,211 (USA)[2] 1886 (as a literary magazine) 1965 (as a women's magazine) Hearst Corporation United States (other countries also available) English www.cosmopolitan.com

Also looking at the type of fashion that is featured within the magazine it is clear that the magazine may be aimed at a more mature audience of females to what we wanted. I gathered all of my information from this source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_(magazine)

Caption: TV Times logo and Interview caption to keep with TV Times house style and a consistent convention of a magazine.

Drop Capital: goes down 4 lines to show a consistent house style of TV Times and a consistent magazine convention. In bold black to stand out and attract attention.

Stand first: an insight into the article to engage readers so they will read further.

Background: a plain white back ground to let text and images stand out and so the page is not over crowded. Suits house style. Rule of thirds: this magazine challenges the conventions of the rule of thirds of most magazines and instead uses quarters but this is still in keeping with TV Times house style. (shown by black lines)

Images: a main a4 image is used to balance out the text and smaller images with captions are used to attract attention. This keeps to TV Times house style. Main headline/Lure: white on top of an image to stand out and suit TV Times House style of white, blue and red. It is also a pun understood primarily by the target audience to gain interest.

Main Article: it is about Brian Coxs new TV series on BBC2 called Wonders of life suiting TV Times house style and target audience. It is in 4 equal width columns which is a consistent house style feature. Sub-headings are also used as a consistent house style feature of TV Times.

Although, TV Times had all of these important conventions of a magazine and featured interviews of some TV shows, we didnt choose to base our double page spread on TV Times. This is because we felt that the house style and the type of topics, e.g. nature programmes, featured within the magazine did not suit our target audience. For example, we would not buy TV Times and so we thought neither would our target audience of 14 19 years.

Background Information on TV Times:

TV Times is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom by IPC Media, a subsidiary of Time Warner. TV Times currently publishes broadcast programming listings for all major television channels. Before 1991 it published listings for ITV and (from 1982) Channel 4 only. Although every ITV region originally had its own version, there are now four. The magazine was launched in 1955, but became a national magazine only in 1968. Prior to 1968, several of the regional ITV companies - Westward Television, Scottish Television, Tyne Tees Television, Ulster Television, TWW and Teledu Cymru (and briefly WWN) - produced their own listings magazines. The Midlands originally had their own edition of TV Times listing ATV and ABC programmes, but a separate listings magazine in the Midlands called TV World existed from 1964-68 before TV Times went national. Until television listings were deregulated in 1991 the TV Times was the only place where complete weekly listings of ITV programmes could be published.
Editor Categories Frequency Circulation First issue Company Country Based in Language Website Ian Abbott TV and Radio Listings Weekly 336,929 22 September 1955 IPC Media United Kingdom London English www.whatsontv.co.uk

It is stated that It is known for its access to television actors and their programmes and In 2006 it was refreshed for a more modern look, increasing its emphasis on big star interviews and soaps meaning that these are the most featured topics within the magazine. This would not be a suitable basis for our dps as we are looking at reality TV and not dramas/soaps or actors.

Also the fact that TV Times includes articles of programmes broadcast on BBC2 this may not be suitable to base our dps on as BBC2 has a different target audience of viewers aged 35-54 to BBC3 , which we are broadcasting our documentary on which is included within our article, as it is stated BBC Three content is modern, distinctive and relevant and has a core 16-34 year old target audience. Also BBC2 broadcasts some different types of shows, which are included within TV Times, to what BBC3 broadcasts meaning that this magazine would not suit our target audience. Also the people interviewed such as 44 year old Brian Cox may not be able to relate to our target audience as much as teenagers, It states that TV Times currently publishes broadcast programming listings for all major who we are television channels meaning it primarily consists of TV guides. This wouldnt be relevant as including within our we need more of a gossip magazine, rather than an informative magazine, of what is on TV magazine, as Cox is not as well known by in order to base our dps on and suit our target audience. Therefore, we didnt want to use a or similar to our ge- traditional TV listings magazine. This may also not suit our target audience as with their use neration. of modern technology they would be able to view a TV guide on their TV.

I gathered all of my informati on from this source:

http:// en.wiki pedia.o rg/wiki /TVTim es

Why chose teen vogue Similar target audience Talks about teen preg, Wikipedia and tv shows House style suitable double page spread actually goes onto 4 a5 pages so we will do 2 a4 pages as it is equivalent.

 Anything else how we will create ours? Look at last years blog.

 How teen vogue is similar to ours: - Never a consistent colour of title although same font so we created same font logo but different colour - sometimes uses graphics instead of images of people similar to us - similar colours just different order - We will challenge convention and use Q&A why? - Talks about teen preg/documentaries