My music magazine represents young people who enjoy partying and having a carefree lifestyle without portraying them as "drunken teenagers". It features a young musical talent to give its target audience, students living on a budget who see themselves as hedonists, a more positive profile beyond being seen as troublemakers. While some see today's youth as lazy and disrespectful, the magazine challenges this dominant view and represents its audience as young, fun-loving people who enjoy life and may have promising careers ahead of them.

1. Evaluation Question 2. How does your Media product represent particular social groups?

2. Representation. My music magazine represents those in society who are care free and enjoy the party lifestyle. Young people in my magazine “Strobe” are seen as the typical hedonist party gatecrashers who enjoy a goodtime. However they are not represented as “drunken teenagers” which is how someone people stereotype today's youth.

3. I have used a young musical talent in my magazine to give a more higher profile to my target audience so they are not just seen as trouble makers to the public. However I have still kept the modern representation of a teenager who enjoys going out clubbing, which is typical of someone with a hedonist profile.

4. How are young people represented in my magazine? In a sense my magazine challenges the dominant ideology of how people represent young people. Ideally the representation is that my audience are young, carefree and enjoy life, and not the typical lazy, loud and mouthy youths as they are represented to be. They would be C1/ c2 on the jicnarscale as they are students and live on a basic budget and also classed as hedonists seeing as they live a happy- go lucky lifestyle and enjoy life to the maximum.

5. Stereotypes. Goths Chavs Emo Gangster

6. Dominant Ideology. The Dominant ideology of teenagers today are seen to be lazy, lacking respects and drinking too much. However emergent ideology in some way represents that not all teenagers are like this and that they are talented and do seem to have a good future and carer ahead of themselves if they do not have one already. My media product represents my target audience in a positive way in which they should be resembled.

7. Representations (connotations). Connotations- Depressed, uninviting, trouble makers, rebellious Connotations- lively, exciting, inviting, friendly, out going