1. Masthead
1. Familiar to the reader.
2. Bright against dark
background to catch audiences
Website eye, therefore encouraging
1. Promotes brand. reader to buy.
3. Brand loyalty, trusted brand.
Price
Banner
1. Shows snippets of
what other features Star
are included. 1. Dominates most of
2. Brightest colour on the cover, the first
the cover to attract thing that the
the reader. audience looks at.
2. Known as ‘the
Features doctor’, recognisable
1. Promotes other T.V character.
articles in the
magazine that might
interest readers. Anchor
2. Uses sub-headings 1. ‘Death of doctor’
to relate and attract blue and icy
the audience. background connotes
coldness and
bleakness. Ties in
with narrative.

2. Tag Line
1.‘Pie and flash’ play
on ‘pie and mash’ Masthead
connotes that star is 1. Familiar to the reader.
still down to earth 2. Bright against dark
even though famous. background to catch audiences
2. White and bold font eye, therefore encouraging
to stand out. reader to buy.
3. Repetition of the ‘L’ 3. Brand loyalty, trusted brand.
creates a relaxed
approach and appeals
to reader.
Star
Features 1. Dominates most of
1. Demonstrate to the the cover, lit from
audience the other above to connote
articles featured innocence.
within the magazine. 2. Uses red and bold
2. Uses red and bold font to encourage
font to encourage reader to focus on
reader to focus on them.
them.

3. Masthead
Banner 1. Recognisable to
1. Promotes the brand reader as a well
by advertising it as known and trusted
‘the best’. brand.
2. Bright yellow 2. White and brand to
contrasts against stand out without
masthead but relates clashing with other
to other colours on colours and images on
the page, therefore page.
standing out without
taking the attention
away from main Stars
feature. 1. Recognisable T.V
characters dominate
Features majority of cover. All
1. Demonstrate to the characters eyes
audience the other focusing on reader.
articles featured 2. Uses red and bold
within the magazine. font to encourage
2. Smaller than main reader to focus on
feature but uses them.
brighter colours to
appeal to reader.
Tagline
1. ‘Superheroes with ASBOs’ appeals to a younger reader
although magazine is targeted at an older audience.

4. Price Masthead
1. Bright button uses 1. Recognisable
contrasting colours colours and font used
used to stand out to promote brand to
from picture although audience as trusted.
very small.
Main feature
1. Medium close up of
characters so they are
easily recognised by Features
audience. Tense 1. Easy access to days of
expressions relate to the week.
narrative ‘Bradley 2. Bright and different
cracks under colours to show the
pressure’. certain pages.
2. Yellow and red of 3. Other articles
‘prime suspect’ clash featured with pictures
to drawn audience in of the characters to
as its the first thing demonstrate which
the eye sees. Red soap they’re from.
connotes anger and 4. Rhetorical questions
danger. Contrasts and exclamation marks
with happiness of used to create suspense
yellow. and excitement.