Article Features

The title of the page is Guilty Pleasures it is written in a neon style it is written like this as it looks glamorous. The background is purple to represent a naughty, luxury feel and the pink background represents a cheeky feel. It has been titled Guilty Pleasures because the meaning of the phrase means something we enjoy that we shouldn’t. This relates to the page because its about information we dont need to know about but we want to.

The lead story has a drop capital attracting the audience to the beginning of the story making the reader want to read more to find out what he fuss is about with the story.

The Metro used the main story of the page to advertise the VOGUE magazine. They did this by adding part of an interview of what the main story is about and then stopped it part way through so the readers want to continue to read the article but will have to buy the magazine. the story interested the media by focusing on a life style on someone people are interested about. The Metro used the types of things people are interested in; money and fashion. This gains the readers attention even more towards the main story. The story focuses on fashion mainly Maya Jama’s fashion as it is bright and attractive. The story also focuses on Stormzy and Maya Jama’s lifestyle and how they lable themselves as “couple goals”. It would also attract readers to the story because its about how they are rich and their lifestyle is very glamorous.

Some stories use play of words or names to interest the readers and attract them to read the story. The metro did this with the story about the Starbucks cup that was left on set during production of an episode of Game of Thrones. They do this by changing the latin phrase “Mea Culpa” which translated to english is “my fault” and turning it into “Mea Cuppa” which means “my cuppa” my cup of tea. This makes the reader want to understand why the newspaper has used this play of words leading them to read more on the story.

The Metro include this page daily because it attracts a younger audience and it is easy to read quickly while your on the train.