Ancillary Text - My Soap Magazine Cover

This is the final draft of my television magazine cover. To make it look as professional as possible, I used different conventions of television magazines. I included a masthead to draw the audience's immediate attention so they know which magazine they're reading, pugs to break up the images and text as well as making it more exciting, a stapline to let the audience know what is included within the magazine and a website and barcode for realism.

The main images I included are of two characters included in my soap, and both are involved in a love triangle story line. The story would likely be one of the biggest within my soap, so I felt it was important for them to be the main focus. The blonde girl is the character in the middle of the love triangle, so I had her as the largest image. Her boyfriend is oblivious to her cheating ways, so having a niave, smiling image of him in the background reflects the storyline. I also took a still frame from my soap trailer as one of the sub stories because I wanted more than one reference to my trailer. 

Since my previous magazine, I recreated the 'TV Today' title as the previous one looked basic, and I wanted a background behind the lettering, and the drop shadow wasn't working well enough. I went online and found a website http://cooltext.com/Buttons which let me personalise a button and text, as well as including shadow to make it 3D, and I believe it looks more realistic.

The font I used in it is Berlin Sans. Berlin Sans works well as the text is quite curvy and more attractive compared to the standard straight and blocky text of Arial or Times New Roman. This takes away the seriousness of the magazine and therefore more appealing to our younger target audience. I also changed up the text colouring, removing the pink and replacing it with the colours from the star pug in the top right corner. I felt synergising the colours would balance out the layout, as well as the reduction of pink to make it look less feminine and therefore attract a wider audience.