The document discusses a magazine targeted towards fans of classic rock and heavy metal music. To appeal to this audience, the magazine uses conventions from similar publications. It features a dark cover with bold fonts and images to draw readers in. While focusing on older artists through discussions and using gold, the cover also features a younger person to widen the target demographic. An article in the magazine highlights both younger and older artists to further appeal to a range of ages. The price was kept affordable to not exclude young readers.

1. How does my media
product represent
particular social groups?
Bethan Foster

2. My media product is a magazine focused mainly on the classic rock/heavy
metal genre of music. To make my magazine appealing to these types of
people who listen to this music, I have kept to the conventions of similar
magazines. Firstly, my front cover has a dark background. I thought this
would be the most fitting colour for my magazine, as this is the colour my
genre of music is mainly associated with. I used the front cover as the main
attraction for my readers and used bold fonts and articles to draw them in. I
wanted to create a slight nostalgic effect with my magazine, by using the
colour gold and discussing older artists however, I did not want to rule out a
younger audience, so I used a younger person on the cover, to widen my
target audience.
My two page spread is an article that also focuses on both a younger and
older audience. I included a wide range of older and younger artists in this
article.
I did not want to make my price too high for my readers as I knew that there
would be young people reading my magazine, and I did not want to make it
unaffordable. I have looked at similar magazine prices and they are also in
range of my price.