1. HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA
PRODUCT REPRESENT
PARTICULAR SOCIAL
GROUPS?
Lindsey Parkes
2. SOCIETY – MY MAGAZINE AIMS
My target audience for my magazine was males and females aged 18-23 years
old. I decided to use this target audience for my magazine because people this
age are mostly interested in music as they go clubbing and go to festivals. Meant
that music is a very big part of their lives and I wanted to create a magazine
where they can keep up to date with new and upcoming music which caters to
range of genres instead of targeting one particular genre of music like ‘pop’ or
‘rock’ and that is how I chose the genre ‘chart’ music for my magazine. The
social class of my target audience was a higher class but I have priced my
magazine at £1.50 so it is affordable for a range of classes.
3. G E N D E R , AG E A N D
STEREOTYPES
Originally I only wanted to target females but seeing as I chose chart
music I felt like it could relate to both males and females. In my magazine
I used both stereotypical colours of males and females e.g. purples and
greys. Stereotypically ‘Rock’ music is for ‘Emos, goths and rockers’ but I
did not want to incorporate that into my magazine and wanted to relate
to a variety of ‘stereotypical’ audiences. Chart music tends to be mostly
‘pop’ music as pop actually means popular music.
4. H OW I U S E D R E S E A RC H I N M Y
M AG A Z I N E
On my front cover I used the cover lines to show the reader what
artists/bands are featured in my magazine. These are artists from different
genres to show that there is not one particular genre and there is a mixture.
The model for my front cover is in the age range of my target audience. This
will then attract people of this age range as they will be able to connect with
the magazine.
