1. QUESTION 2
HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR
SOCIAL GROUPS?
By Amy Fogarty
2. YOUNGER DEMOGRAPHIC
The younger demographic is represented through the
featured artist ‘Lily Wilkinson’, who is a 17 year old female solo
artist. I have chose to do this as the target audience of my
magazine is 16-26 years old, I felt using a featured artist of
similar age would allow the reader to relate more to the
content of the magazine.
Through the article I have written
about the featured artist I have
presented a positive representation
of the younger demographic. A
much more relatable and realistic
representation of the age group,
this is shown through the pull quote
‘I was trying hard to control my inner
fan girl!’
3. WOMEN
The women portrayed in my magazine
aren’t shown in a stereotypical
provocative way, which is common in
most music magazines. Through not
portraying women in a provocative
way I'm challenging the stereotypical
representation. I have challenged this
through the clothes the artist is wearing
and also the way she is positioned and
photographed. A more positive image
of women is represented to the younger
demographic.
4. MISE EN SCENE
I've created a positive representation of this
young age range, as the images have an
exciting and care free look about them. I
was able to create this through the mise en
scene. Fun and light hearted facial
expressions of the models also help to
create a positive representation of this
young age group. The clothes the artist is
wearing isn’t provocative and she is quite
covered up. The clothes also appear to be
quite masculine representing a strong,
independent woman through the artist
wearing a black leather jacket and a blue
denim shirt.
5. SOCIAL GROUPS
My magazine has a similar
social group to magazines
such as NME and Kerrang.
Both are aimed at similar
age groups and also
represent their cover artists
and other featured artists in
a similar way to my
magazine. They also have
the same target audience
and age group.