How Does Your Media Product Represent

Particular Social Groups?

Emergent Service Workers

This class group is financially insecure, scoring low for savings and house value, but high for social and cultural factors. According to the

Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

Are Young

Enjoy a cultural social life

Rent their homes – almost 90%

My Class Group

Large, bold masthead in a bright colour. Attracts peoples attention. Bright colour would be more appealing to a younger audience (16-25).

Part of feature article photograph blended into background to give an artistic affect.

Blue background colour mixed with the red and black text may be more a appealing to a male audience.

Casual clothes partly stereo type the type of clothes younger people wear which makes that magazine suit the 16-25 age range

Big, well known bands/artists are made to stand out so that it is clearly visible. Will attract a younger audience as this is the type of audience that they are most well known byThe pull quotes and puff’s are clear and easy to read. The bright colour highlighting the key part of the magazine catches peoples eye. This clash between the colours would appeal more to a younger audience as it is more catching to younger people.

FRONT COVER

The red lines on either side are the highlight key piece of information on the front cover which will attract readers to it.

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD

The black background enables bright colours to be used which makes objects such as the image and the text stand out more to the reader . The bright colours will stand out more to younger readers as this is the sort of thing that attracts a lot of younger readers.

The picture has been positioned with a clear pose, and at a low angle facing upwards to give the person more dominance. This will appeal to my demographic as it symbolises younger authority which young people may want more of.

The article is clear is and easy to read as it is set out in columns, which will appeal to younger audience as it draws the reader and looks aesthetically interesting read and to look at.

The way one half of the image is slightly faded into the background gives the person almost a good side and a bad side which can make the target audience want to read to find out what it is really about.

The page numbers have the word ‘MIND’ next to them, continually reminding the reader of what magazine they are reading. This like a qwerky feature to the magazine which will appeal to the ‘emergent service workers’ age group.

CONTENTS PAGEUsing the words ‘Inside Mind’ instead of just contents on its own gives the contents page more purpose and would make more people actually want to read it.

Bright colour scheme attracts readers to it, especially younger readers as bright, bold colours will attract them to it.

The page is set out in columns so that it is easy to read, and by not having too much writing it appeals to my demographic as it may make more people read it due to the fact it is neat, organised and not too wordy.

The images are clear and follow convention. They are also a mix in the fact that two of the images are making eye contact with the reader, two are mid-shots, and one a full body shot which gives the reader a variety of different things which should appeal and attract them to it.