The document discusses how a music magazine represents social groups and challenges conventions. The magazine uses existing conventions like centering the cover around one image and including a masthead, but challenges conventions by using a handwritten font for the masthead. The magazine represents students and young women. The cover features a smiling girl to portray youth as fun-loving and active. Inside features show a girl concentrating at a piano to represent students as hardworking but individual, and two girls in customized uniforms to portray youth as hardworking but also relaxed and unique.
2. Questions to Answer: Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
5. The social groups represented in my magazine are students and young women, pictured on the cover and in my contents page. The girl on the cover is smiling, showing she’s happy, and looks healthy, apart from the bandage on her knee, which connotes that she is active, energetic and fun-loving. Her hairstyle also reinforces this impression, as it looks messy, with strands of hair sticking out. Again, this suggests that she is fun-loving from the stray strands, but that it has been pinned back suggests an element of sensibility. The overall representation here is that young people are fun-loving and active, but also have a sensible side.
