The document discusses how a media product represents teenage girls aged 13-15. It uses images of a model on the cover, contents page, and spreads that communicate the target audience is fun, girly, and crazy through poses, clothing, hair, and colors like pink. The images also suggest the audience likes to look good and hang out with friends. The representation supports dominant ideologies by using girly colors, cute poses, and content about fashion, gossip, and music, implying the group's interests are pink, appearance, and gossip.

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

2. Target Audience
My target audience is young teenage girls
probably around
the age of 13-15.

3. Images of model used in my
work
Picture used on
front cover
Picture used
on contents
page
Picture used
on double
page spread
Picture used
on double
page spread

4. What does my image communicate in terms
of miss-en-scene about my target
audience?
Cover Image
pose/facial expression (laughing)=
target audience is fun
costume (clothes) =
target audience is girly and cute
positioning of hair=
target audience is crazy, wild and
fun
colours in clothing=
target audience like pink and oranges
(girly colours)

5. What does my image communicate in terms
of miss-en-scene about my target
audience?
Contents Page
Image
pose/facial expression (pouting )=
target audience likes to look good
make up (minimal)=
target audience want to be natural

6. What does my image communicate in terms
of miss-en-scene about my target
audience?
location (garden)=
target audience
like to hang in
they garden with friends
cute pose
(blowing a kiss)=
target audience
are cute, fun and quirky
Double Page Spread
Pictures

7. Dominant ideologies made
about my target audience
-Their favourite colour is pink
-They care about their appearance
-They like to gossip
-Their all cute and really girly
-They all love pop music

8. Does the representation you offer challenge
or support dominant ideologies about your
social group?
It supports dominant ideologies by:
-Using typical girly colours (pink and blues)
-By using cute poses with in my pictures of my model
-By using contents about fashion
-By including snippets of gossip

9. Does the representation you offer challenge
or support dominant ideologies about your
social group?
Using typical girly colours supports dominant ideologies
by:
-suggesting the fact their favourite colour is pink
-Suggesting their all really girly as pink is seen as a really
girly colour

10. Does the representation you offer challenge
or support dominant ideologies about your
social group?
Using cute poses with in my pictures of my model supports
dominant ideologies by:
-Suggesting target audience is again girly and cute

11. Does the representation you offer challenge
or support dominant ideologies about your
social group?
By using contents about fashion it supports dominant
ideologies by:
-Suggesting they care about what they look like
-That they want to look good and impress people
perhaps

12. Does the representation you offer challenge
or support dominant ideologies about your
social group?
By including snippets of gossip it supports dominant
ideologies by
-Suggesting teenage girls particularly like to gossip
-They enjoy reading into other peoples lives especially
celebrities

13. fun and quirkycute and girly
teenage girls
gossip
pink
vein
pop
hang out with friends