Initial notes on a soap opera magazine

As for our project as well as a trailer and a poster for our soap opera we are creating a soap opera listings magazine, my initial thoughts on a soap opera magazines conventions, convantions we will have to follow when creating ours are as follows.

An example of a soap opera magazine

Eye catching - The magazines I have looked at are all very similar aesthetically, they contain very eye catching colours and many different colours for the writing, the background of the writing and the general scheme of the magazine.

Photos - The photos of characters are always very large and facing outwards towards the reader, the main story seems to involve at least two characters and they usually represented with a large photo, as well as the less important stories still have a large photo of the soap opera characters involved relative to the size of the text and the box they are in.

Lack of Blank Space - There is always a lack of blank space, the entire surface area is usually covered be it with photos of characters, the barcode, large block capitalised writing or information about the magazine itself.

These three initial ideas of the certain conventions within a soap opera magazine will aid me and my group once we decide to create our magazine product and when researching further into this type of product as a whole.