The front cover of heat magazine is very colourful and completely different to the music magazines previously analysed.The name of the magazine itself, 'heat' is bright red. It's a gossip magazine and therefore the name suggests that they have the hottest gossip. The colour red also backs this up. Above the mast head there's a little caption stating "This week's hottest celebrity news". They are confident that they have this weeks hottest gossip.
The cover all together is very colourful, this draws your eye straight to it. With words like "Crisis" and "Torn & Tearful" across the front page, along with people on the front looking not overly cheerful, the readership of this magazine, perhaps enjoy reading about peoples misery rather than any joy they've come across. In fact, there isn't a single positive item on the cover.
At the top right hand corner of the page, they've got a flash, "Nadine talks to heat" along with a pull quote relating to the flash, "We haven't spoken for 13 months." This may cause the readers to start asking questions, Why haven't they spoken in 13 months? and Will they be speaking again soon?
The skyline on this front cover, "Kyle drops a dress size on extreme water diet!" backed up with an image of Kylie looking, perhaps a little gaunt. This suggests, again that heat's readers want to see people that are struggling.
There are two main cover stories on this cover, again, both of the main images are of people looking quite miserable with equally downcast headlines. "Torn & Tearful after Ahsley's surprise house visit" and "'Maneater' tearing X factor house part".
The cover lines along the bottom are again very dismal, "Jealousy threatens to split band", matched with an image of a photograph ripped apart and next to that "Louis Exclusive" - "They're all so fake!".
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