Initial notes on Soap Opera Magazine

I looked at the front cover of a soap opera magazine such as the one below;

I studied the front cover to see what stood out about it.

The first thing that stuck out when looking at a soap opera magazine is the main storyline, this was written in big colourful letters to really attract people towards the magazine, another reason this stood out was because of the language that was used in this story, the words used were dramatic and lured me in to read the story. The title of the magazine also had this effect it was written in big letters and its very coulourful attracting people towards the magazine.
The price of the magazine was also written in large letter attracting people too it because of the low price (35p). The whole magazine front cover was covered in colourful pictures and headlines there was no empty space on the front of the cover. I realized that there was a bar code usually in the corner of every magazine. I also realized that there was a date written on the front page.

From first looking at the front of the magazine I realized that they all included;

Large Title of Magazine
Large main story
Lots of stories around the outside
Alot of use of punctuation (!?)
The price
The date
Barcode
Not a single bit of blank space

So from looking at the front cover I now have a good idea on what is needed on the front cover of the soap opera magazine that my group will create. It will need to include a largely written main story to attract the audience to the magazine. The name/title of the magazine will need to be bold and colourful to ensure it is seen. There will not only be one story on the front, it will include many different storylines and pictures. There will need to be the date on the front page along with a barcode.