1. Question Two - How does
your media product represent
particular social groups?
Katy Marwood
2. I have chosen to represent teenagers in my media product. This is
because I am a teenager myself and know what kind of things most
teenagers like. However, a secondary audience for my media product
could be young adults around the age of 20-25 who enjoy music from
the genre.
3. I have shown the models on the front cover of my magazine to be teenagers by
the clothes they wear and how they present themselves. I have three models in
my magazine – a teenage girl (the main feature) and two teenage boys (free
posters).
4. My main feature is a seventeen year old singer named Oceana, she’s not wearing a lot of
makeup so she looks her age and she’s dressed like a typical teenager. Her hair is very natural
and she looks like a seventeen year old unlike other celebrities the same age that dress to
impress other people and appeal to a wide audience. On the front cover she’s wearing a band t
shirt (Arctic Monkeys – a band of the indie rock genre and also a band featured on the front
cover) and on the double page spread Oceana is wearing jeans and plain clothes, this clothing
choice causes no other social groups to become offended as nothing she’s wearing affects or
promotes things like drugs/swearing/ethnicities/ religion/culture.Making Oceana wear clothes
that are intended to offend would be very controversial and sales of my magazine would drop
and it’s a morally wrong thing to do anyway even though a lot of magazines still do it to attract
a larger audience and generate bad publicity. Oceanas clothing choices don’t distract the
reader from the main focus of the feature which is her music and her career.
5. my writing to be too formal but I also didn’t want my writing to be to
s the audience background information of Oceana and what she h
6. My target audience are again represented in my magazine as
. Many teenagers will then be able to relate to Oceana on a perso
are very welcoming and do not intimidate/offend the audience in a
n a very simple “question and answer” format, making it an easy r
