Magazine

For a bit of real-life research into the parents' claim that children go for the magazine with the best toy, I took my nephew and his friend (both in our TA age range) to a shop to buy them both a magazine. They very briefly surveyed the options available to them, and then decided almost instantly that this was the magazine they would opt for... and guess what; it was in fact the one with the most toys. Even though it wasn't the magazine for their favourite programme, they were fascinated by the free toys and would take no attempt of persuasion!


Here is the magazine (with free merchandise) they chose.

Whole 'pack'

Front cover

Back cover

Incl. colouring book 

Incl. mobile phone

Incl. character cards

Incl. 'magic' paint book

Incl. stickers

Questionnaire results!

So, here's the average results of the data we gathered!




Age: 3 years old.
Time spent a day watching television: 3 and a half hours.
Most frequent television 'package': Freeview.
Most commonly favourite channel: Cbeebies
Favourite programmes: Peppa Pig, followed by Charlie and Lola.
What time they watch television: AM and PM.
Buy magazines of the programme: Sometimes
Buy DVDs of the series: Yes.




So from these results of children in our target audience, we can 'presume' some things. Firstly that we have used very popular influences for our programme (Peppa pig and style of Charlie and Lola). Also that Cbeebies would be a really good choice of channel to exhibit on as this was by FAR the favourite channel (and is on freeview, and more expensive television packages so everyone will have it) and to attempt to screen our show in morning and afternoon. Also, from verbal feedback gained from parents of the children, the child is most drawn to a magazine if it has a really good toy(s) attached to the front as is largely a picture based front cover. 

Sound types

Obviously, all of the sound in our piece will be put in post-production (becuase that's the nature of animation).


Examples of diegetic and synchronous sound in our piece: characters speech and sound made by objects in the scene.


Examples of non-diagetic asychronous: voiceover and music.

(To create the sounds made by the objects in the scene, we will have to act like Foley artists.)