The magazine represents rock and metal social groups through images of mainly male musicians in their late teens wearing dark casual clothes, taken in practice music settings. The lighting, props, clothing and locations in the images aim to portray the genre of music. The magazine also uses colors like black and red, and a large, unique font for the masthead, to appeal to its target audience of rock and metal fans.

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

2. Social groups
My magazine represents rock and metal social groups mainly
through the images I took. With my images, I took into account the
lighting, props, clothing and location. The images in my magazine
play a big part in telling what the genre of the magazine. I have also
represented different social groups through my colour schemes and
fonts.

3. Images
•Demographics
When taking the pictures for my magazine, i wanted to use mainly
males rather than females as most rock and metal bands have all
male members. I also used people that were in their late teens as i
wanted my magazine to appeal to my target audience so i thought if
the members were the same age as my audience, it would make my
magazine more successful.
•Target audience
I tried to appeal to my target audience through the clothing and
props in my images. I wanted the people to wear casual darkish
clothes as this is what most rock and metal fans and bands wear. I
took most of my images in a practise music to show all the different
instruments that are traditionally used by rock and metal bands e.g
Guitars and Drums.

4. Fonts and Colour schemes
•Colours
In my magazine, i wanted to appeal to rock and metal fans as much
as possible so i used a colour scheme similar to some existing rock
music magazines. I used Black as this is a dark colour which appeals
to rock and metal fans as they tend to wear dark clothes. I used red
to represent blood as some rock and metal songs base their lyrics on
anger and crime.
•Fonts
For my masthead i used a large, unique font that would stand out and
give the impression it was in your face. I thought this would appeal to
metal fans as most songs are include shouting and screaming.