How does your media product represent social groups?

When creating my music magazine I had a particular group of people in mind.

I made sure that my product used appealing colours, language and artists in order to appeal to this group.

I also had to consider what race, gender, age, social class and ethnicity my audience are.

• Whilst creating my music magazine I had to consider how I was going to present my target audience (Teenage girls between 13-17).

• During my research I found that this audience are interested in romance/boys, making new friends, shopping and using the internet. It was important for me to portray these likes within my magazine.

• I used this research in order to think about which colours, images/mise-en-scene and the language that would be included in the magazine in order to represent this social group.

• The genre of my magazine is pop.

• In order to represent teenage girls between 13-17 I presented them as carefree, loving and maybe a little predictable and typical.

• I showed them as enjoying only pop music and made this clear through my use of colours and the mise en scene of my artists.

• The clothing that my artists wear within the magazine is quite relaxed, accessible and would be considered as high street fashion meaning that readers are not constricted in buying these items of clothing.

• By getting my artists to wear this type of clothing I am representing my audience as quite normal girls. Although my audience would be interested in fashion, some of my audience would rather buy clothing that is comfortable rather than overly fashionable.

• The colours used throughout my magazine are very bright highlighting the genre pop. It suggests that my audience is happy and carefree. I found this important for me to include within my magazine as it moves away from the typical stereotype that teenagers face off being moody, lazy, rude etc. By using these colours these stereotypes could be broken and reflects the true stereotypes of some teenage girls.

• Throughout my magazine I have used different ethnicities to show my audience as being multi-cultural/diverse. I have also used boys and girls in my magazine in order to reach out to the minority of boys that may be attracted to the magazine.