Comparing an American TV Guide to British TV Guide

 An American Style TV guide differs to a British style TV guide. Usually in American TV guides young attractive characters are featured more frequently creating the image that youthful looks are an appealing factor in USA soaps and dramas. Furthermore the females featured wear revealing clothing further adding to the sex appeal of the characters and attracting a male audience which british TV guides do not often do. British TV guides such as "TV Easy" appear to target a female audience from the use of the pink theme to the romantic storyline which would have more of an appeal to a female audience.

 The T.V guide appears to be aimed more at a younger audience due to the colloquial slogan "The 411 on the  new 90210." In contrast, the majority of british TV guides are aimed at a more mature audience and tend to use more formal language.

Analysing listing magazine

Radio Times front cover

This particular front cover of the radio times features popular TV drama Doctor Who.

I particularly like the v-shape standing structure of the daleks as it establishes the main dalek. The magazine cover does not feature Dr Who or any of the obvious characters but instead features a significant but slightly less normal character from the drama.

The cover also features some characteristics from the World Cup,being one of the popular programmes on TV that week.

'TV easy' listings magazine

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  I analysed this listings magazine to help construct my ancilliary texts
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   'TV easy' uses the popular Soap opera of 'Eastenders' to attract audiences to their product
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   I particularly like the bright colours which stand out and the air brush glamour effect used on the characters Sean and Roxy.
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  The casts representation breaks the stereotypical conventions of soap opera being realistic. Instead they look like the perfect happy couple with the caption 'I LOVE YOU' below their image.
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  For my ancilliary text, I will take in consideration the layout and decide who should be on the cover. In addition to this, I will need to consider whether to represent my characters as they are in the drama or create a more unrealistic effect.

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TV easy magazine front cover analysis