Ancillary product analysis- magazine

Adam Fox 2052

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The masthead is in a red box on the left hand side of the magazine. This connotes that the masthead is trying not to interrupt the soap operas that it is reporting on an that the TV shows are the most important feature of the magazine. The red background usually connotes power or confidence, however, the use of the colour in this context does not fit those connotations. Instead it is used to connote happiness as it is a bright red that would attract the reader in the shop when purchasing the product.

The main image of the magazine is of two men smiling. This is reassuring to the reader as they can now assume that the content will not be too emotional or hard hitting. However, the image is at odds with the masthead ‘Murder!’ which connotes a negative story of a tragic event of someone's death.

The headline is in bold and uses punctuation to create a sense of urgency and amendment that draws the readers attention. The yellow colour connotes happiness and the is a binary opposite to the word ‘Murder’. This again connotes the idea that the audience like to see that despite the negative content, that something positive will happen in the narrative.

The cover line is inside a different coloured boxes and different coloured text to match. This is used to make the text out on the multi-coloured backgrounds of the images that they are representing.

The masthead is red and within it’s own white box. This connotes an element of separateness that the magazine has towards TV soaps and so could be interpreted as meaning hat this separateness give the readers an alternate perspective on the weeks TV schedule then other magazine.

The headline is in capitals and partly in a cartoon like pop up box. This makes the text more noticeable. The yellow colouring connote the contrasting happiness to the word ‘DEATH’. This is used to generalise the events in all of the images that are shown on the page, this gives the reader the assumption that there has been death in all of the mentioned soaps on the page.

There is no distinct main image on the front cover of this magazine. This connotes that all the featured television programs are equally important to the magazine and is almost encouraging the readers to watch as much of the programs as possible. Also the images appear to be taken from screen shots from the program, this is demonstrated by the action poses that the bottom left image denotes.

Interestingly, the price and the bar code are positioned over the top of one of the images relating to the ‘collectors edition’, this is not usual conduct for the magazine media as they try to make it detreat as possible. In the soup opera genre however, this does not appear to be the conduct.

will not ‘repeat’ soap opera weakly I magazine, this magazine has no main image, this means that the audience has no anchoring future to focus on. There is too many images all in one area and

From the What's on TV magazine, I will ‘repeat’ (Steve Neale) the use of images with the cover lines because it gives the readers another medium to engage with and relate to. This is effective as it gives the readers some context t the stories in the magazine as the readers now know what the characters that are mentioned look like. Ii will also try to replicate the shapes that the images are in as this is followed in all soap opera magazines and the readers will be expecting this, therefore it would be wise to follow this trend.