TV Listings Double Page Spread Analysis

Conventional Features

Title

Bi-line

Drop Caps

Text arranged into columns

Flash

Title of magazine

Main image, filling page

Pull Quote

Date/time/ channel for documentary

Title of documentary

Banner identifying the genre as reality

Text

Double pages spreads in TV listings do not use up much space for text. The layout of the article is very simple and describes the documentary and gives a backstory to the narrative. Conventions such as drop caps and pull quotes are used to pull the reader’s attention to the more appealing/important parts of the article. I think that the banner at the top of the article is a much better way of presenting the title, day, time and channel instead of writing it at the end of the article.