1. 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media product represents particular social groups successfully. The age group of teens at the age
of 16 and onwards is generally the target as it is successful at aiming to this audience because of the
bands within the magazine for example the main band feedback they are young and represent what
people want to do with their lives so they can therefore inspire them to do something. This is useful
as it shows that teens are influenced by the things they see in magazines which make this a success
of the bands used in the magazine. There is no specific gender group aimed at but the style of the
magazine and the language used makes it more suitable and specified to the male audience but
because of the images used it also appeals to the female audience as they are likely to love posters
of these artists for example on my double page spread there is an image used on it that is like an
album cover for the band and on the front cover of my magazine there is a framed image used of the
band playing which appeals to female audiences. Social class is represented through the bands as
the way they talk and look is not imaginable for a middle class people, they are stereotyped as
working class people as they don’t dress fancy or anything but they are stereotyped to this class
because of the music genre they are in, it is usually seen as the working class that go into rock music.
The way I presented groups in my magazine is similar to Kerrang as they let the magazine be suitable
and representative of anyone; I wanted my magazine to be able to influence anyone of any group.
The magazine lets people feel to be themselves then therefore listen to the music that gives them
emotion.