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

2. Gender
In magazines such as ‘Vibe’ which
is the same type of magazine as
mine, usually represent females
as a type of sex symbol, very
revealing and seductive. However
in my magazine I have chosen to
present females in a good way, by
using glamorous women.
Furthermore, males are represent
as aggressive, dominant and
powerful in magazines e.g. ‘Vibe’
however I have chosen to have
successful men on my magazine

3. Class
I have chosen that the themes in
my magazine are success, wealth
and glamour. Therefore I
requested my classmate model to
wear a sparkly dress and her
biggest bits of jewelry in order to
look classy, I think I reached my
aim. Hip Hop is a very working
class genre but I wanted to
present my magazine in a working
class and positive manner. My
male character does not wear lots
of bling.

4. Age
• In my magazine I represented young people as
fashionable, happy and sophisticated.
• This is a very thoughtful and passive pose
(left), the mode of address is indirect as he is
not looking at the camera and this is not
stereotypical of a young black men in a hip-hop
magazine (right) , angry and threatening.

5. Ethnicity
• In my magazine I chose to
represent mixed race women
as classy and powerful. In the
picture I have chosen to use,
Lorna’s posture is straight and
up-right; this shows that she is
proud and sophisticated. On
my front cover I portrayed
African-Caribbean men to be
determined and hard working,
I done this by putting him in a
studio, in a hooded jumper like
it is a daily thing and his
expression looks like he’s
passionate about rapping.