Progress on magazine feature

Now that I have completed the greatest wins box I am really pleased with how it looks, I feel that I have achieved the engaging and light hearted affect I was trying to achieve and am now ready to move onto the main body of the article. To begin with I decided that my main headline definitely needed to be some sort of pun or play on words to do with horses, showing or riding. When looking through existing products I felt that headlines really set the tone for the rest of the feature, and a pun is usually the way in which it is done. After experimenting with a few different phrases I decided upon "showing off". It not only links to their profession of producing and competing ponies on the showing circuit, but also refers to the documentary and article in themselves, in that it is all about them being able to proudly "show off"about what it is that they do and the wonderful success that they have already had together as a show team. In addition to this I also added in the columns that the body of my article will fill.

Analysing TV listings magazines

Analysing TV listings magazines from Molly Kushner

Starting my TV listings magazine double page spread

I have just began to start working on my double page spread for my documentaries magazine feature. In terms of the layout and styling of it, as shown by my sketches it will be constructed in a very similar way to that of the Top Gear article that I analysed. I felt that this was a particularly eye catching and engaging spread, and achieved the right balance between image and text which I too was keen to achieve.
To start off with I have been working on the "CRAIG AND SARA'S GREATEST WINS" element of the article, positioned in the bottom right hand corner of the second page. I feel that this enables me to add some background information of Craig and Sara's most notable previous success without needing to include an overwhelming amount of text. Furthermore the almost collage like arrangement of the image I feels ads a more light hearted sense to the feature, hopefully capturing the essence of my documentary. I have now positioned all of the images and have began inserting the body of the text within this area, that very briefly gives some information regarding each achievement and what made them so special to them. To begin with I created the basis of this element using a series of text boxes to almost mark out where each picture and its additional caption would go. This was then followed with the insertion of each image and then finally the text and captions.

Sketches of double page spread

Please find below a mock-up for my double-page spread. I have based this upon my research into existing TV listings magazines (such as Radio Times and TV Times), as well as the images from my photoshoot with Craig and Sara.

Mock Up