1. A social group is a collection of people who interact with each other and share similar
characteristics and a sense of unity. My magazine manages to represent many different
social groups including; gender, race, class and age. Although some may be more
prominent than others within the magazine they all will be addressed within my
magazine.
Gender: My magazine represents gender by using both male and
female models and articles. The way I have represented the females
would be less suited to what the ‘normal’ idea was.
As seen on my front cover, the model is a female and although this is normal,
females are normally sexualised on the front cover. This can be done by either
having the model pose in a ‘sexual’ position or having them wear more revealing
clothes. I haven’t done this for a couple of reasons; 1) I didn’t think that it was
appropriate to what my magazine shows and 2) my model wasn’t was still only a
college student so it would have been inappropriate for them to do so.
For my double page spread, I used a male model with a close up shot. This is the
only photograph that has a male featured as the main person in my whole
magazine. I think this was because of the whole style magazine was made for females
and I thought that they would like more role models that they could look up to so I made
them more of a feature than males were.
When I originally planned my magazine I thought that I would have an even split of male
and female model for the images, however, due to things like trying to find willing
models and also issues regarding the times of the photoshoots, it went to heavily being
female orientated
Race: Although there are many different races in the world, my magazine
only features white british models. This was not the intentional plan but
unfortunately it has gone that way.
There are reasons why different races weren’t used during the production
for m magazine, one of them being the surrounding area to which I live. I
live in York which is largely populated by white people. Because of this I
wasn’t able to find many people that were of different races that were
willing to model for my magazine
2. Age: For my magazine I have been able to cooperate a few different age ranges into
my magazine. The range of the ages that I used were from 16-23. This allowed me to
get different styles of images across my magazine.
Age in magazines are stereotypically around the same ages (somewhere in their 20s).
This is usually given to try and relate to the magazine audience. Especially with music
magazines. From my research that I previously have conducted I have found that the
audience of magazine are generally around their late 20s - early 30s. This can provide
us with information to who people are listening to and such.
This is my model and the image I used for the double page
spread.
