Initial notes on soap opera magazine

Looking at a soap opera magazine, at first glance I am struck by the colour.  Every magazine cover is full of colour; hardly a white space to be found.  Obviously this is to capture the buyer's eye, just like it did mine.  Everything about the soap opera magazine is designed to capture attention: bold, outlined text in easily legible fonts (often captitalised), punchy titling and well-illustrated with enticing, colour screenshots and images.  They will always have stories on the cover from more than one soap opera, to target a wide audience and achieve large sales.  Somewhere on them is a price of the magazine, which is generally easy to spot (and fairly cheap to compete with other magazines) so the buyer can easily compare it with other soap magazines.