Q2: How does

your media

product

represent

particular social

groups?

Soci

al G

roup The social group I will

have a large focus on as

my primary target audience will be a unisex, teenage to young adult audience

(from the ages of 16-25).

Social Group Interests My social group hold the interests of going outside to drink and party at gigs and nightclubs as part of the drink culture in youth today. My social group will most likely have a driving license and a car to travel around to gigs and a part time or full time job (such as MacDonald's for example) to give them money so they can look after their cars and to be able to go out to these gigs. They will also casually wear clothing and merchandise from their favorite bands. My primary social group are also interested in the latest technology such as downloadable music and the internet so that they can travel whilst listening to their favorite bands.

How does my magazine attract my primary social group?

My magazine attracts my primary social group through the use of my model of similar age who is wearing casual clothing making her seem down to earth to make my model feel more relatable and therefore identifies better with my primary social group. I made a variety of camera angles of mid shots, high and low angle shot and the rule of two thirds and I chose a wide variety of camera angles so that the model won’t become repetitious, keeping my primary social group visually interested in my model. My models eyes contact is concentrated on the viewer as if there is a intimate connection between the viewer and model; This is to make the viewer feel connected and involved to the magazine to appeal more to the viewer.

In my contents page I display what will be included in my magazine. As seen here is my model as she is the main article in my magazine making the primary social group appeal to the imagery of my magazine. The topics included in my magazine include a majority of bands on tours and gigs to attract the primary social group to read up on the topics within so they my primary social group feels included, so that they can go to these events. In my editors note I use an image of another young adult which will appeal to the attraction of my primary social group as they see it as relatable and I kept the tone in my introduction within my editors note very down to earth as my primary social group relates to a casual tone as opposed to a formal tone.

In my main two page article I had again used a casual down to earth tone with the use of describing when the main star in the articles talks to the interviewer she laughs and this is recorded in the interview. She also does not speak formally with the use of mild language and anecdotes from her childhood from her father.

Again there is very diverse imagery to keep my primary social group visually involved in the article and the article also include internet links to the subjects band website as well as telling the audience where to download their music which appeals to my social group as my social group lives in the digital age and are most interested in music they can listen to as they travel from locations.

My magazine follows convention to similar aspects to other magazine such as Kerrang! magazine to follow convention of the genre. In many existing magazine we have pictures of the model or multiple models with their eye contact solely concentrated on the viewer of the magazine to make the viewer feel more included within the magazine. There is sub headings to sell the main sell line to attract the audience further into buying the magazine with the use of a famous band, which my magazine follows as well. What makes my magazine different is that I have solely focused on one image of my model in the magazine, I have also used sub heading focusing on events that people can travel too as opposed to existing magazines like this issue of Kerrang! where they focus more on existing bands with little description as to why they are in their magazine.