Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Reasearch into T.V. Magazine Shows

TV Magazine Shows

Top Gear

Content

Car reviews. (Price, comparisons, performance.)
Celebrity guests take on challenge, (Stars in Reasonably Priced Cars). This is to change the tone, as putting all it’s focus on just reviewing cars would become boring. This also attracts larger audience, by gaining fans of the celebrity guest.
Footage of presenters, celebrities, and the Stig testing cars on race track.
Presenters going on adventures, pre-arranged footage of the presenters testing different vehicles in different locations.
Members of the public make up the live audience.
Opening titles.
Closing credits.
Five-minute introduction by presenters. Includes what they have been doing previously, anecdotes and male-banter.
Car wall, conclusion to car reviews/debates throughout the show/series.

Structure

* Reviews and debates for cars occur throughout the show, but other features, such as celebrity guest challenges and Presenters filmed adventures, appear throughout to change the tone and keep viewers interest, as viewers would lose interest if it showed all other segments first or just focused on the car debates and reviews for the entirety of the show.

Presentation and MES

Quick and fast paced camera shots and background music, makes atmosphere feel similar to a race or action movie. Ties into the theme of fast cars.


Camerawork

Many sped up shots, ties into theme of racing and fast moving cars.

Use of effects and titles

Opening titles, introduction with small bits of information of what will appear in the show. Graphics and footage of cars and the logo. Establishing shot of car track and Top Gear studio.


Blue Peter

Content

Opening theme tune. Features presenters voice over giving information of what will be appearing in the show.
Interviews.
News segments.
Celebrity guests.
Outro, featuring information about what will be included in the show next time.

Structure

Starts with calm subject, the news, interviews, reading e-mails, building up to exciting finale, which might be

Presentation and MES

Camerawork

Use of effects and titles

Top Gear
Blue Peter
This Morning

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