1. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
2. My magazine represent young people such as students and
people of low demographics that would like to achieve there
goals and become successful. My magazine is a featured Rap
magazine, because of this it helps give the audience by them
more desire to succeed. It gives the audience this motivation as
many rap artists promote a rags to riches lifestyle. Many Rap
magazines also mention and refer to money and power a lot of
the time again driving the audience towards achieving success.
Power
50 Cent is an idol for going from
drug dealer to Rap entrepreneur
3. The particular target audience that my magazine would represent would be young
people such as students because magazines like this helps them strive for success
and aim for higher goals. My magazine does this well as it promises interviews with
the artists which they look up too and idolise. By using exclusive interviews in my
magazine this would draw in my audience as they would be interested in looking at
how their favourite artists got to where they are. Promising exclusive interviews is
also a unique selling point for the magazine.
Exclusive interview
4. My magazine though could represent this particular group through a stereotypical
way. Because my magazine is a Rap magazine this genre could be easily associated
with violence and explicit language. This is why I have to make the magazine look
professional and relate to success while still keeping its aggressive “gangsta” image to
suit the genre. My magazine also refers to power as it is the contrast to what the
social group are as they are lower demographic people, showing them what they can
achieve.
6. Magazines most often attract their audience through the front cover. My
magazine is no different as I have attracted my audience through the content
featured on my front cover. On my front cover I offer Exclusive interviews
with Rap artists and used a large image of the artist. This can help draw the
attention of the audience and can be eye catching. This also stands for the
colour scheme as the target audience will recognise the colours. I have also
combined contrasting colours together to give a more stand out effect.
Promising
features in the
magazine
Colour scheme
CompetitionsContrasting
colours
7. I also attracted my audience through the price of my magazine. The price is also
an important factor when drawing in my audience. Because my audience is those
of low demographics I would sell the magazine at a low price of £2.99. Also to
relate to my audience I have addressed my audience with colloquial language and
used colloquial language throughout my magazine. I have used this language
because it is relatable for my audience and is easily understandable.
8. XXL Magazine is a high end rap magazine that
is distributed and produced from New York.
XXL is a higher class magazine and covers
more successful artists in the present and not
there past. The magazine features high end
advertisements and promotes a wealthy life
style. Therefore it is a high priced magazine.
XXL Magazine sells for
$10.00 which is around
£6.00.
