Evaluation 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my magazine cover, contents page and 2 page spread, I tried to show different features when creating the magazine to make it represent my target social group with is teenagers and above. On my 2 page spread, I have an image of one of the artists in my magazine who is the main feature of the magazine. This image includes a snap back hat to show the coolness side of the artist. Also, I made it look like he was at a music festival and he was about to go out on stage. I made him wear casual clothes as DJ artists wear them when they’re performing. This indicates the teenage look as they wear casual clothing most of their childhood. I think this style reflects the style of my target audience and so the magazine represents their social group. Costume has a big part in my magazine. I had made a feature in my magazine that there was a music awards in my magazine. I had used pictures I had taken of my mates in their suits. I had used these images for the music awards in my magazine. The reason I used this was that schools have end of year proms for students leaving school and they like to dress in a smart way with the shoes and tie etc. So this is why I used these as teenagers like to dress this way on special occasions. I feel that my images set a teenage look on my contents page as there is a big picture of lads dressed in the smart way. This represents the teenage look on special occasions. Also, my magazine has a happy feeling towards my images and with the people on the images smiling indicates the happy feeling towards my magazine. The main reasons used these images is that music awards are common throughout each year and I wanted to do something different to what everyone else did in my class. To some extent, I think that this idea can link in with the audience and social groups in which I have done my magazine for. This is because music can be a big thing in a teenager’s childhood and music awards can get really exciting for them in their childhood as they want to see their favourite bands or artists win big awards so this is why I have done this in my magazine.