Representation

Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In the design and thought process of making my magazine i had to tackle the problem of what social group and audience that i would be aiming for to be reading my mag. So I looked at other magazines to help decided what to do and found that i wouldn't like to narrow my audience down too much. I wanted to have quite a wide age range that my magazine would satisfy as well as it being made for both sexes.

My media product represents people from 14-30 and people who enjoy going out to parties and music festivals. I suppose the main way of describing my audience would be teenagers and young adults who enjoy going out and having fun and have an interest in music. 

In my magazine I tried to depict the indie/rock genre, one way it represents particular social groups is that of the text it features. The text is non-formal and the language used is modern and easy to read, which I think the readers will like because they don’t want to work there brain too much.

I believe my magazine does touch on subjects that the social group my magazine represents will like, as I do advertise the band in the main article. Of course the band is a non-existing one, but however it does advertise the band and their album. It also features a couple of item review pages such as film and games, however these pages were not too be made, but to add to the contents page because that’s what the consumer wants

Overall i think there isn't a specific social group for my magazine because anyone could read it, it just depends on if you like the music.