The magazine targets 16-24 year olds and aims to represent teenagers interested in pop music. It features a 17-year-old girl on the cover to portray an ambitious youth and counter stereotypes of teens being irresponsible. The cover artist, Tai-Sian, wears a gold pop-style dress and represents the subculture of teens who enjoy pop music. Existing artists featured like Justin Bieber and Rhianna also reflect the magazine's focus on the pop genre. The target audience is considered mainstream, interested in current pop culture trends.

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

2. • The audience for my magazine is targeted at
around the age of 16-24 year olds. Almost all
of Q’s readers are 15-44 so this demographic
fits into this nicely. Q magazine is very
successful and I wanted to fit my magazine
around this demographic.
• My magazine is aimed at both genders, not
using any stereotypical colours that may be
seen as more masculine/feminine. However,
girls may be slightly more inclined to read it
because the front page stars a young teenage
girl.

3. • 16-24 year olds may be seen as irresponsible
and lacking ambition, however I have tried to
counteract this showing that the 17 year old
girl on the front is ambitious and of a friendly
natur.

4. • A subculture or a social group is a cultural
group within a larger culture, often having
beliefs or interests at variance with those of
the larger culture.

5. • The artist on my front
cover represents the social
group of teens who listen
to pop music. The singer
‘Tai-Sian’ wears a gold,
pop looking, dress, she
looks fun to be around and
this helps to fit into the
subculture of pop. As, she
looks like a stereotypical,
pop artist.

6. • The existing artists I have used in my
magazine, such as Justin Bieber, Rhianna and
The Weeknd are all from the pop genre. This
again, reflects the pop genre of my magazine.

7. • My target audience are considered
mainstream.
• A mainstreamer is a person that is interested
in current rends in pop culture because
everybody else is too. A mainstreamer is not
very original with their music choice and
fashions because they choose to copy the
crowd instead of standing out as individuals
and liking things that are perhaps not very
popular.