This document discusses the representation of social groups in a media product. It describes creating an R&B magazine targeted towards 16-24 year olds. The front cover features a model dressed in a white t-shirt, black trousers, and blue jacket, wearing sunglasses and a cap to look cool like an R&B artist. Headlines on the front cover include topics about drugs and festivals to interest the target audience. The contents page continues the color scheme and includes images from the main article and editor to match the house style. Double page spreads ask the artist personal questions about home life that would engage readers.

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

2. Genre and target audience
As my partner and I decided to choose R&B as our genre of
music we chose to base our media product on 16 – 24 year

3. The style of my model
In other R&B magazines such as ‘Vibe’ and ‘Billboard’ they had
people dressed up in clothes that matched their house style with
a lot of jewellery. Therefore on the front cover of my magazine I
decided to have a model with a white t-shirt, black trousers and
a blue jacket. I decided to have this coloured clothing because it
would match the house style of my magazine and it would make
the model look quite cool and stylish which are traits of R&B
artists.

4. Accessories and facial expressions
I also decided to have the model wear sunglasses, a black cap
and earrings by doing this it would make the model look even
cooler and it would make the model look more like an R&B
artist. I also decided to have my model with a straight face
because on the front covers of other R&B magazines the artist is
not usually smiling hence I decide to make my model have a
straight face.

5. Other things on
the front cover
The headlines and straplines I chose to put in were about drugs and
upcoming festivals. I decided to have these headlines because there
would be interesting to the social group that we chose. For the pug I
decided to have in it a prize in which you are able to win tickets to
Glastonbury. I decided to have this in the pug because our target age
group is 16 – 24 year olds and I feel that free tickets would appeal to
them.

6. Contents Page
For the contents page I continued the house style of blue, white and
red which appeals to our target age group. I also added two images,
one main image which is on our main article and the other image is
the editor’s image. For the headlines and straplines on the contents
page I decided to have ones which would appeal to our target
audience for example tour announcements, festival highlight and
exclusive interviews etc. I chose to have these headlines and
straplines because I thought that they would appeal to my target
audience.

7. Double page spread
For the double page spread I asked interesting questions about
the artist’s home life which provoked emotional and serious
responses which the target audience would find interesting. I
also added his new album next to the main image so that people
know that he has a new album out so they can download it.