Inital ideas on soap opera magazine

My initial ideas on my groups soap opera magazine

We wanted to include in our magazine:

• Interviews with main characters in order to learn more about the casts and their characters personalities.
• Photo shoots of the main characters in order to gain knowledge of who is who in the soap.
• A Television guide of what times television programmes will  be being shown during the week, it will say what time all programmes will be on and which days.
• We wanted to include pages on all important events that will be coming up, from special soap episodes to awards evenings.

We wanted to show all the generic conventions of soap opera magazine. These included:

• A bold heading with a sub title under or around the heading
• Bar code
• Showing the time and date
• Having a weekly issue rather than a daily issue
• Having the background as a large photo rather than a plain colour
• Having a tag line showing on the front page
• Showing the reader the new characters of the new soap
• Showing main story lines
• Showing the price
• Bright outstanding colours
• Big magazine name standing out

Before making our magazine we will look over these initial ideas and try to make our soap opera magazine fit the generic conventions as far as possible in order to make our magazine to the best of its ability.

Target Audience Of Soap Operas

Soap Opera Trailer Target Audiences on Prezi

Specific Knowledge of Soap Operas

Copy of Soap Operas on Prezi

Barb Figures on Soap Operas

BARB Figures

BBC1
w/e 28 Aug 2011 (Millions)

1 NEW TRICKS (MON 2100) 9.28
2 EASTENDERS (FRI 2000) 8.90
3 EASTENDERS (THU 1930) 8.73
4 EASTENDERS (TUE 1929) 8.54
5 EASTENDERS (MON 2000) 8.23
6 DOCTOR WHO (SAT 1910) 8.10
7 COUNTRYFILE (SUN 2000) 5.76
8 TEN O'CLOCK NEWS (MON 2200) 5.59
9 TEN O'CLOCK NEWS (TUE 2200) 5.53
10 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? (WED 2100) 5.45

ITV1
w/e 28 Aug 2011 (Millions)

1 THE X FACTOR (SAT 2000) 10.63
2 CORONATION STREET (MON 1932) 8.16
3 CORONATION STREET (MON 2032) 8.11
4 CORONATION STREET (FRI 2031) 7.87
5 CORONATION STREET (FRI 1932) 7.68
6 CORONATION STREET (THU 2031) 7.43
7 EMMERDALE (THU 1959) 7.00
8 EMMERDALE (MON 1901) 6.70
9 EMMERDALE (FRI 1901) 6.57
10 EMMERDALE (THU 1901) 6.55

Most Popular Episodes

Which have been Coronation Street’s most watched episodes?

Hilda’s farewell – 26.6 million
Deirdre/Mike/Ken love triangle – 20 million
Richard Hillman’s confession – 19.4 million
Alan Bradley under tram – 19 million
Deirdre sent to prison – 18.9 million
Fiona left at the aisle – 17.5 million
Don dies on screen – 17.3 million
Don tries to kill Alma – 17 million
Mike and Linda’s wedding – 15.8 million
Sarah Lou teen pregnancy – 15 million
Steve and Karen wedding – 15 million

Poster inital ideas

Above is annotated inital ideas for our poster.

Magazine cover inital ideas

Above in annotated inital ideas for our soap opera magazine covers.

Soap Opera Magazine / Listings Magazine Titles

Mag inital

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