The document discusses how a magazine represents social groups in its content. It uses language, colors, images, and articles tailored to its main audience of male teenagers and young adults. Specifically, it uses informal slang, dark but colorful tones, and features mostly male artists to portray this target demographic. The articles also frame this group as a misunderstood population often facing unfair stereotypes.

1. Evaluation
2 - How does your media
product represent particular
social groups?

2. Representations As my magazine is based around the whole
Britpop/Madchester genre of music, I need to get the
representations of my social groups right.
There are various ways of getting to the right social
groups that I am after:
• Through the use of language - I used slang and
more informal terms in order to be able to reach
an audience who I knew would understand
what was being said.
• I knew that my main audience was Male
Teenagers & Young Adults, so I represented
them through colours, images and articles.
• The colours I used were quite dark and gritty,
but also there were hints of brighter colours,
particularly red, white & blue - the magazine
being BRITpop and aimed at BRITISH artists.
• There is hardly any women featured in the
magazine - showing the audience is mainly
males, as not many women would buy a
magazine like this.
The articled I created has represented the
teens/young adults as a ‘misunderstood’ group of
people, often stereotyped as being anti-social.