How does your media product

represent particular social

groups?

My target audience and aimed social group is people who enjoy pop music, tweens and young teens within the E

demographic.

These are also the people who will buy pop music magazines as they are

able to relate to the artist.

My magazine represents young people as fun, loving life, loving music and spending times with their

friends. Also it shows that young people have good people to influence

them and aspire to.

Images and colourNone of the images I have used are negative, they all represent the artist in a positive way, which shows

that my audience have positive influences. Whereas some magazines will include overly sexualised images of artists or include stories that talk about artists

being in prison, which can then generalise a stereotype of audiences leading a bad way due to the actions of the artist. My feature artist has the ideal look

wearing minimal makeup, and fashionable clothing. The colours and fonts I used are positive in the means that they are pink and youthful which further connotes the

positivity of pop. My magazine is unlikely to attract a male audience in that most young males are more

interested in other things such as video games and films and therefore wont buy a product like this.

When thinking of my magazine and social groups, pop in general will attract fan

girls, girlie girls and I feel my magazine does portray this through the colour

scheme and what the magazine entails as you can see on the contents page, there is a quiz and certain feature stories will

attract the younger audiences as they will be interested, whereas others wouldn’t.

Feature story

The advertisement and content of my feature story represents my audience as willing, empowered and

self believing. Often most pop magazines will focus on more gossip based stories, I have adhered to that convention within my contents page as it

features both light reading articles, quizzes and a poster special which is also reflective of my

audience as a stereotype many young girls are known to adhere to a young teen girl culture, in which they have lots of posters around their rooms and are very much involved with what would be in a

magazine. Also the story I used is more likely to appeal to a female audience as girls are most commonly interested in heart felt stories.

When thinking about pop representation in my research, I decided to use clean images, giving the

magazine artist a good representation, further portraying her as a good role model, as young

people are very impressionable and will look up to the artists and want to be like them. This way the audience can feel comfortable with the images as they have similar interests and styles so can

easily relate.

If my magazine was full of dark colours and old pop artists such as Madonna, no one from my expected target audience would buy it as they can’t relate,

therefore I used a young pretty artist.

Price

By putting the ‘only £2’ on the front cover it lets the audience know they are getting a good deal and makes them want to buy it more, as magazines that I am in

competition with are more expensive. Also as my target audience’s main source of income would be pocket money this shows

that it’s affordable to them.

These stories show my target audience as

being interested in celebrities lives due to the nature of my

contents page. Also interested in secrets and a fan girl life,

by winning tickets to a

concert as they are able to get involved with the magazine, this is also shown through the quiz, in which the

audience can get involved with the magazine.