The document discusses how a media product represents teenagers. It focuses on a magazine created by the author for a teenage audience. The magazine features a 17-year old singer, Oceana, on the cover wearing casual clothes like a band t-shirt that would appeal to teenagers. It also includes two teenage boy models as free posters. The author aims to represent teenagers through the clothing, makeup and natural appearance of the models, avoiding anything that could offend different groups. The language in interviews and articles is kept casual but not too informal to respect the target teenage audience.

1. Question Two - How does your
media product represent
particular social groups?
Katy Marwood

2. I have chosen to represent teenagers in my media product. This is because I
am a teenager myself and know what kind of things most teenagers like.
However, a secondary audience for my media product could be young adults
around the age of 20-25 who enjoy music from the genre.

3. I have shown the models on the front cover of my magazine to be teenagers
by the clothes they wear and how they present themselves. I have three
models in my magazine – a teenage girl (the main feature) and two teenage
boys (free posters).

4. My main feature is a seventeen year old singer named Oceana, she’s not wearing a lot of makeup so she
looks her age and she’s dressed like a typical teenager. Her hair is very natural and she looks like a
seventeen year old unlike other celebrities the same age that dress to impress other people and appeal to a
wide audience. On the front cover she’s wearing a band t shirt (Arctic Monkeys – a band of the indie rock
genre and also a band featured on the front cover) and on the double page spread Oceana is wearing jeans
and plain clothes, this clothing choice causes no other social groups to become offended as nothing she’s
wearing affects or promotes things like drugs/swearing/ethnicities/ religion/culture.Making Oceana wear
clothes that are intended to offend would be very controversial and sales of my magazine would drop and
it’s a morally wrong thing to do anyway even though a lot of magazines still do it to attract a larger
audience and generate bad publicity. Oceanas clothing choices don’t distract the reader from the main focus
of the feature which is her music and her career.

5. I took the age of my audience into consideration when
writing my magazines double page spread. As the
audience is primarily teenagers certain linguistic choices
had to be made during the process of writing. I didn’t want
my writing to be too formal but I also didn’t want my writing
to be too informal as I personally as a sixteen year old
think too much of informal language in magazines is very
patronising and unprofessional especially if they target
audience for the magazine is people above the age of
thirteen.
So, I decided to write an introductory paragraph which
tells the audience background information of Oceana and
what she has so far achieved in her short career at such a
young age.

6. My target audience are again represented in
my magazine as
my main feature is an artist that tries to live life
as a normal teenager and thus attends a Sixth
Form College. Many teenagers will then be
able to relate to Oceana on a personal level
and a strong connection will therefore be
created with the singer down to the magazines
interview.
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All of the images used in my magazine of
Oceana are very welcoming and do not
intimidate/offend the audience in anyway as
the models all look friendly and inviting.
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My interview is wrote in a very simple “question
and answer” format, making it an easy read for
the audience.