1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I feel that my magazine
My media product highlights indie music
represents the indie and in a positive light and
British pop culture scene. doesn’t stereo type
This means that I have them in to one category
used certain techniques like some music
such as indie clothing in magazine do. Even
my double page spread to though my main
make readers feel as audience is indie and
though they can relate to British pop my
my magazine. magazine I feel could
be read by any type of
social group.
Furthermore, for my
contents page I have
used edited photos as
album covers to give an
indie acoustic feel to the
For my headline I have used the magazine.
words acoustic to make it appeal to
people who are interested in new
music as it is an acoustic revival. This
does appeal to a certain social group
but the magazine its self doesn’t.

2. The indie music scene
Negatives:
The indie music scene has been
Positives:
portrayed in many negative lights.
The indie music scene has
Firstly, ‘Their attitudes are fickle, and
became very diverse over the
can be passed off as pretentious or
years, from the times in the 90’s
rude if you don't get to know them.’ as
when the indie scene was a rigid
wrote on the urban dictionary
way of life and fashion to now
definition of an indie kid.
where most new artist have some
Secondly, the indie scene has been
influence from indie music.
made out to also be negative through
Some of the biggest names in the
TV shows such as skins
charts have some aspects of indie
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music such as Coldplay, Keane
photographs such as this one..
and so on.
The indie scene has taken away the
positives that indie music has given to
society, the mass media has created
this image for really good music but
people have perceived that everyone
who listens to it looks like that picture.