This document provides guidance on designing the cover of a soap opera magazine, including recommendations such as using bright colors in the masthead, including a character image and caption in a button, employing a halo effect around the main cover star, prominently featuring the main story in one word or phrase, and anchoring the cover star with the main story details. Typical storylines that could be featured include cheating scandals and love triangles. The document also notes that using multiple cover stars together would suit a storyline involving cheating.

3. No house style/colour theme.
Date
Strapline – include new info,
Masthead- top 1/3rd of the prizes and competitions
page – Bright and bold colours.
Branding is anchored
with the strap line
Price in a bubble/shape
Button with an image of a
character inside – with a Eye contact
caption. The picture comes out
of the button slightly.
Halo effect is used around the Cover Star is large in the
cover star(s). frame – mid close up.
Main Feature is one snappy
word/phrase, bright colours.
Anchoring the cover star with
the main feature – audience
know this is the feature
Other Soaps are used on the
relating to the cover star(s)
cover
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4. ‘TV buzz’ has a character displayed ‘We love telly’ has 3 cover stars on
as a plastic doll. Which plays on the the cover, which would be ideal to
audiences knowledge of the use on my own piece, as it suits the
programme, and intertextually, how storyline I wish to use, which is
everybody is ‘plastic’. This type of typical cheating, therefore needing
magazine is less chaotic, more 3 characters on view on the cover.
simplistic and clean. This type of magazine is trashy,
chaotic and busy.

5. Typical storylines:
-Cheating on another's boyfriend/girlfriend
-Secret love
-Pregnancy
-Break up
-Found in bed with someone
-2 characters pregnant with 1 male
Other soaps to use on the cover:
-Made In Chelsea
-Jersey Shore
-Geordie Shore
-Desperate Scousewives

7. The cast of the soap are sat and
stood up all together. The way each
character is displayed is important,
the anchorage and the position of
who is beside who is deliberate.