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

Images: 

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The cover model I have used, intentionally has a particular look. She suits the genre of my magazine of rock or alternative due to her features such as hair colour, make-up, costume and ‘attitude’ expressed through body language and her posing within images.
This means that my model will attract the particular social group of more ‘alternative’ people, as they will relate to her, as she may look or dress similar to them, and may also have a more alternative attitude that they can relate to.


Additionally, my cover model will attract both males and females as she is attractive, but not in an overly risqué way such as cover model’s on ‘revolver’ magazine. I believe this is highly beneficial for my magazine as it means it will appeal to both genders equally and not alienate either sex.

The ‘live’ images on my magazine contents page will also represent a particular social group as they are likely to be the type of person that enjoys live gigs and attend them more than other people may do. This will represent them as they may be more able to associate with my live featured images than a simple image of the artist/band.

My ‘quirky’ feature artist images with the playing cards also represent a particular social group. This imagery is quite fun and ‘alternative’ – meaning it may not appeal to an audience of another genre, such as pop music. This image represents my audience as they like the excitement and fun of the images.

Content: 

The content of my text also represents particular social groups as it contains articles that are interesting and popular among my target audience in particular, rather than audience’s of other genres, such as pop music.

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Through research I found that articles from rock and alternative magazines are much more interesting than those in other genre’s, such as pop magazines . This is because they often include personal things about the artist that the reader will really enjoy, not just reading about vague, uninteresting and irrelevant information.
I believe the content of my magazine represents a particular social group of alternative, as it features editorials that they will find genuinely interesting, not just superficial, unclear, and irrelevant information about the artist.

Colour Scheme: 

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The colour scheme of my magazine represents the particular social group of rock or alternative as it uses red and black which are typically colours used for rock magazines, as I found from my research into magazines such as ‘NME’, ‘Q’ and 'Kerrang!'.
However, my magazine also features more bold, fun, and exciting colours such as bright yellow and blue in order to make my magazine more fun, fresh, and quirky.


Additionally, I believe that this represents the social group of rock/alternative as it is a style that wouldn’t be suited to everyone's taste- it is something that stands out and is different from the 'norm' of other genre of magazine - something that this particular social group may be able to relate to.