This document discusses how a media product represents different social groups. It focuses on representing its target audience of 8-16 year old females. It aims to portray teens in a positive light, breaking stereotypes by creating a happy, vibrant magazine. It represents its main feature celebrity, Tiffany, as a beautiful, pure, glamorous female inspiration. Other models are also portrayed as attractive, successful role models. Class is represented through sophisticated costumes on the models to suggest they are famous and wealthy.

1. QUESTION 2
HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT REPRESENT
PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?

2. REPRESENTATION
Representation is the way in which something or someone is
portrayed. Regarding media, representation is the way we
class someone socially. The 7 social classes of
representation are:
• Age
• Gender
• Sexuality
• Ethnicity
• Regional Identity
• Class
• Disability

3. MY TARGET AUDIENCE/ AGE
• My target audience age is 8-16 and is
clearly young females as demonstrated
by the use of colloquial language, lots of
secondary images and bright colour
scheme. I wanted to put teens in a
positive light by creating a happy vibrant
magazine to break negative stereotypes
of teens. These negative stereotypes
means that teens can be seen as trouble
makers, lazy, vandalisms, rude and
unruly as this is the general stereotype of
how teens are presented in the media.
However I wanted to represent my
audience as young happy aspiring teens
with big dreams. This is done through my
colour scheme and use of young talented
celebrities such as Tiffany.

4. GENDER
• I have represented Tiffany as a beautiful pure
inspirational and glamorous female though the
costume, hair and makeup. My main feature is a
female in order to emphasize girl power of this
magazine. I wanted her to be represented as an
attractive woman so teens would aspire to be like her
but if male they would also be attracted to her. I
wanted to present all my models in my pictures as
successful role models who are very attractive so that
the audience would want to pick up the magazine. I’ve
used a sophisticated smart costume for the males
which is suits so they appear attractive and famous
and so that females will want to read about them.

5. CLASS
In order to make my models in my images appear
famous, I needed to make them appear wealthy and
well dressed therefore I chose a sophisticated
costumes such as suits and ball gowns to suggest
that they are superior and of a high social class due
to their musical fame. However I do use some more
casual costumes in some images to suggest anyone
can achieve their dreams just by working working
hard so this encourages readers to buy my magazine.
Smart Casual