Q2

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

My magazine was created to represent urban black teenaged girls aged 13-19, and what I have done to portray is with a photograph of a young girl dressed in style as my front cover. I did not intend to aim it only black people but my magazine just ended up like that, I wished I included majority of different race to increase my target audience. I believe there are some people from a white background who live and are influenced by the black culture, this means that they can relate to my magazine instead of been excluded. This artist on my magazine is a hip hop and r&b music rapper and by this I made sure she had the look of an hip hop artist so that when the audience looks at it they will be able to recognize something that they can relate to more .My media product will relate to people who are fans of hip hop music and also the hip hop look. Looking at my magazine you can see that I had tried to give this hip hop nature by the use of fonts, colours and the photoa, I made sure I did not make them look very boring because teenagers loose interest in things quickly. Although my media product is targeted for the younger audience, adults are also included as a result because many other audience who are fans of hip hop music will relate to it also as it is something they enjoy. I made sure that my media product was not to childish because i wanted the older target audience to also read my magazine making it a diverse group.

My front page would be mostly related to girls who dressed in a famous American style known as the ‘jerking style’ .Things such as these big bulky glasses, checked top and jeans really shows the sense of hip hop nature. Looking at my contents page it looks like the social group is much more diverse as doesn’t focuse on girls it also focuses on boys as I included a male in my contents page. This reason why I have done this is so that the males would not feel isolated when reading my magazine, I feel that i need a vast amount of target audience to read my magazine not just girls because this will look too fake.

I have tried to link my magazine with scratch magazine by including a female rapper as the front cover of my page just as the real conventions of a real magazine. I believe my so called artist on my front cover will catch many attentions from my target audiences this is because people would like to know who she is so therefore they would want to read about her. I also followed the characteristics of a typical rap artist with simple features such as body warmers, jeans checked top and also the serious expression a rapper .I made sure my model was dressed in style so that they can have some sort of respect .Nowadays in the UK’s street culture many teenagers like to be seen wearing clothes with brands, what this means to them is that people will show more respect and it will also show that you are up to trend. This is what i have tried to do with the artist, although the brand on my artist is not as visible my target audience will still get familiar with it.

                      

In my contents page you can see that I included the main model, clothes and props to help fit in with my genre, I did this so that my target audience were familiar with the type of genre that I was pursuing .Looking at billboard board magazine above we can see that missy Elliot is dressed in urban style with the typical long chain with he big pendant and also a fashionable hoody that shows femininity of the magazine , this is related to my magazine in a way due to this female rapper nature .Her facial expression looks very serious as she looks directly at the camera this shows that she is strong and confident. With my magazine the artist on the front page uses a very serious facial expression this shows what a typical female artist would do especially in London. In the billboard magazine missy Elliot’s hands rests on her waist this shows that she has confidence in what she is wearing and it also shows the feminine side of her.  Most teenagers will relate to this because their body language represents youth as casual, informal and relaxed, this is also what i did with my artist on my magazine .Instead she holds glasses to show confidence and pride with her style.

In my contents and double page spread using a white background was very important for me because most teenagers loose distraction easily so with the use of a white background implies a sense of exclusivity which then implies the young audience who feel the need to stand out amongst the rest of the society.

*keeping text simple-teenagers get bored DPS