This document discusses how the media product, a classical music magazine, represents social groups. It aims to attract people aged 20-40 who enjoy classical music. The creator investigated what this audience prefers in classical magazines through a questionnaire. Most respondents were over age 40. The magazine's layout, colors, fonts, and images were designed to be appropriate for both male and female readers over age 40 based on an analysis of existing classical magazines. Photographs feature close-ups of musicians in natural, comfortable poses.

1. Evaluation
Question 2

2. Question 2:
How does your media product represent social groups?
Genre of the magazine? :
Classical
My magazine is aimed at people who enjoy playing or listening to
classical music. People that are in the category - classical, will all share
similar tasted in music and the idea of classical music, so when I
specifically aimed everything at them and the age 20 – 40 (this is on a
bigger scale than the one in my questionnaire). My primary focus was to
grasp the understanding of what a classical music audience would want
and to attract them too. To grasp the audience’s attention I had to delve
into their varied tastes. I looked at normal classical music magazines and
looked at their layouts, colour scheme, type of pictures present, and the
house style. I applied what I found to my magazine. I used many dark
earthy colours and some colours that were taken off the pictures on the
front cover to tie everything together and to preserve continuity. I
considered font styles, size and colour so the reader was able to read the
text with ease.

3. I investigated what the audience would prefer if they were
to read classical magazines. This was shown through a
number of questions and the results are shown throughout
my blog.
AGE
To determine what age group this should be target at, I
included this sector into my questionnaire. This found out
that the majority of people that read classical magazines
and out of the people I surveyed who would read a
classical magazine, the age Is 40+. I took inspiration from
magazines that aimed themselves towards the older
generation and I based my magazine off the layouts I
found to make it more age appropriate. For example; I
wouldn’t have bright neon colours with a classical model
and instrument because they don't fit together, they would
clash.

4. The lines between if male or females would view my
magazine more or if they read classical magazines
was quite a faint one. It is hard to pin point what
gender enjoyed a certain type of magazine and if I
did I’d have trouble with stereotyping and stating
that one gender must only read/ or possibly only
reads this magazine at this age. I had to make
everything in the magazine gender and age
appropriate; I made all of the colours one that both
genders could relate to.

5. I had to keep to a certain amount of fonts because I
didn’t want to over crowd the page. The use of 4 fonts
in different sizes allowed the magazine to be clear and
consistent.
The classical music magazines I have studied either
focus on long/medium shot – medium close up. My
main male model rests on the violin bow and stands in
the position he found comfortable in.