question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• My magazine represents the music genre 'pop' as it is emphasised through the images and the model I have used through the way the images throughout are dressed and the makeup used. The way my artist is dressed also appeals to my target audience as she is clothed in what many teenagers would consider to be fashionable and wear themselves. This is especially because what she is wearing is colourful and will appeal to young girls.

• For my magazine, mostly on my double page spread interview, I tried to steer clear of using informal language because I did not want to conform to the stereotype that all teenagers and young children use informal language. With my magazine, the colours used represent that my magazine is aimed at female teenagers and this is shown by the colours such as teal and lilac. I had to use a colour close to pink to provide the audience with the information that this is a girls magazine. I did not want to be stereotypical though so threw some blue in there.  

• On both my front cover and contents pages, I have mentioned the names of popular mainstream artists who will appeal to my young target audience. Names such as Rihanna, Harry Styles, Justin Bieber and Jason Derulo are mentioned and to many teenage girls, this will persuade them to buy the magazine if they are into at least one or two of these popular music artists.

• Lastly, I have mentioned technologies such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram which I know will appeal to the target audience of my magazine as I know they will be familiar with the social networking sites and many of them will use the sites personally themselves. A huge advantage to those of my target audience is that there is an increasing popularity involving these social networking sites in this age bracket so this is sure to engage to them and raise their interests of the magazine.