Evaluation question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?


My music magazine represents certain social groups in a way that does not generalise against any group. My magazine represents my target audience and social group in a good way, it shows off that they are into old music and like to find out about all what is going on within there interests. Although some may say that I was representing my social group in a negative way with my moody looking colours and pictures and with the almost rebellious look to my main image, I did want to show the sinister side of classic rock so I represented this with my dark colour scheme and eye catching images. I still think I have shown my target audience in a good way though as with my different font types I have shown that there can be a variety of people who are within my target audience, for the mast head I have fancy classic looking font yet for my main cover line I have font that makes it seem more of a heavy rock magazine. This shows that I am keeping my target audience open for a wider variety of people and not slimming it down to a certain group. The image I gave across from my front cover was that it was aimed at an older audience which is correct as my magazine would contain strong language and adult humour. I have my models dressed in old school, 'cool' looking clothes which portrays my social group as fairly fashionable and into their old school trends, I had a lot of inspiration from the 60's when there were 'mods' about, these were the likes of The Who and the Kinks, this is what i wanted my target audience to be like. Also I think i have represented my social group as a middle/working class group as on my magazine I have a bit of bad language and in a upper class society this would be seen as outrageous, another thing I have done is not overwhelmed people with information on the front cover, I have kept it neat looking and clean this is so it is easy to read, this could represent my target group as individuals who like to get straight to them point of things they are looking for instead of pointless information that doesn't need to be there.