Magazine draft hand drawn

We sat down in a group and discussed how we wanted our magazine cover

to look, from analysing and researching soap magazine covers we had a good knowledge of what stands out and what is a good layout.

We drew a rough copy of how we want our magazine cover to be.

These are the pictures of the draft copy:

The picture on the left is the magazine cover we have a masthead which is Whodunnit?! as the magazine will be only on our soap becuase it is new and unique.

There is a large image for the main cover story which is Danielle and there are images around her of the possible fathers.

We have included the price which is at the top and the barcode which is down the bottom these are both common places for these details on soap magazines.

We have got cover lines down the right hand side as they are not as important as the main storyline but each one is interesting. Two of them are questions the top one being 'Will the fresh start be a good start?' with a picture of the Halls, and the bottom one is 'Trouble in paradise?' with a picture of Stephanie with her arms crossed. The middle cover line is a reveal, it says 'Aaron's secret revealed!' this type of advertising makes the reader want to watch the soap to find out what his secret is. This is a method which is common on soap magazines.