Television magazine front cover

To make my television magazine front cover as realistic looking as possible I ensured that I used all the typical conventions such as; the masthead in a bold red to allow the reader to easily see the title of the magazine, the dominant image to attract their interest and strap lines to give more information and an insight into what is inside the magazine.

For my title I used a free online text generator, in order to make it both visually interesting and stand out, attracting a potential buyers attention.  I chose a bold, rounded font, to give my magazine an appropriate fun, entertaining look, instead of a more serious broadsheet approach which would appeal to the wrong target audience.

I chose to use a light blue colour for the background of my cover as not to detract any attention away from the photographs and text.  This also made it easier for the masthead and other text to stand out.

The main image is a photograph of two characters from my soap trailer.  I chose to use the young mum and baby as I felt that this was one of the most controversial topics within the trailer due to young mums always being looked down on and never seen as good enough.  However the fact that the title states 'Amanda wants a better life for her and baby Charlie' shows that this stereotypically negative view is challenged as it appears as though she is aware her sons life but is now trying to do the best for him.  This will hopefully attract the audience into wanting to know more about the past, as well as the need to find out whether there is a positive outcome in their future.

I also included a bar code, date and website address to add to the realism, as well as advertising other programmes and a competition, both attracting potential buyers to my magazine over other competitors.