Whereas other magazine articles can be about anything, they could be about celebrities, real life stories .etc
A TV article in a listings magazine is different to an article in, lets say a celebrity magazine, because in a listings magazine it seems to be more advertising the programme to you and what is going to happen.
My article is going to be a mixture of a review of my documentary, so it promotes it and also something that interests people to watch it. I will put this in a listings magazine the week that it is going to be showing on TV. The examples I have shown use large texts as headlines and small text for the actual article columns. This is a common layout and works well because it allows you to read the headline from a distance and grab the readers attention. I feel personally that it is better to have thinner columns because it tends to look less worse to read. It also gives it more of an article feature rather than a large text box with no columns. Two of these examples use the picture as the background for their text and I feel this works better because it doesn't make it look as basic, I find its more exciting than a blank white text background. My article will have a large photo collage of different things in the documentary that advertises different interviews, different footage. The picture will be the whole page and have text overwriting it. The main headline will be large and short, whereas the subtitle will be a bit longer and explain a bit more about what the article is about.
is there a difference in production values or smog ratings? this is a good intro but you need further posts offering more incisive analysis of detail - column size, smog, layout, typography, style of writing,, proportion of tedt to image ratio etc...if we are aiming for the A/B grades.
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