Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My music magazine is aimed at black teenagers of both sexes. The way my magazine represents the social group is through the props which is the jewellery. The model’s wearing gold bangles and a gold chain around her neck. This represents my social group a lot because hip hop and R&B artists wear a lot of ‘bling’ especially big gold chains and earrings, loads of bangles to show their wealth. This is because they like to boast about what they have and how much money they have, but I kept it subtle as she’s only a teenager but at the same time included it on the model.

Another way that my magazine represents my particular social group is through the subculture, which is an urban culture. The model I used on my front cover. She’s a young black teenager; she’s wearing a jean jacket with a vest top. I made the model wear bright colours and not dull depressing colours. This is a casual/normal dress code indicating that famous people are human and sometimes they’d want to dress casually. As she’s young as well I wanted her to dress/ look like a typical original teenager so that other female teenagers her age can feel inspired and dress like her and feel a sense of closeness to the model.

Body language is another indicator that I made my music magazine representable to the social group So I made her look laid back and relaxed by making her lean on the brick wall, as well as putting her in a casual dress code making her look unique and original also making her look directly at the camera; not smiling but not being dead serious at the same time. This also shows she’s relaxed and calm.

It also looks as if she’s taking a break from the world of fame, because not all models in magazines all wear glamorous clothing indicating their wealth a lot of the time. Which can be very common in hip hop and R&B magazines.

The colours also making it balanced with colours girls like and that would attract them like the pink and purple and the same with the boys using blue, grey and white which aren’t feminine colours. Also making the colours represent my particular social group by making the colours bright because if the blue, pink, purple and grey were dark it wouldn’t be that attracting to my target audience.