Evaluation: Question 2

Question Two:

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents a particular social group in different ways. I believe that my magazine represents young men and women aged 16-22, and are people who listen to alternative and indie music, and attend music festivals. I know that people of other ages listen to this music and go to music festivals but I think my magazine represents the age group I mentioned earlier particularly.

My magazine mentions music festivals a few times. Stereotypically people aged 16-22 attend big music festivals with their friends every summer. I want my magazine to be aimed at them as these are the sort of people I would like to read my magazine. I feel that my magazine represents this social group because the mention of music festivals shows their thoughts and feelings about the things that they like to do.

All the images in my magazine are of people from the age group 16-22, which makes it easy for the readers to relate to the magazine. My magazine represents people from this age group as the pictures are of influential people to them. Also the way I have dressed and positioned the people in the photos in my magazine shows similarities to the people that it represents/is aimed at.

My magazine is of the indie/alternative music genre, so it represents the people who listen to this type of music. In general these people all attend music festivals. The people my magazine represent are the same people as my target audience.

On my double page spread, twitter is mentioned. The majority of people is the social group my magazine represents use things like Facebook and Twitter, so this will appeal to the social group my magazine represents.