The document discusses how a music magazine represents the social group of teenage indie rockers. It analyzes the front cover, contents page, and double page spread of the magazine in comparison to existing magazines like Kerrang and NME. These similarities in layout, images, and style show that the magazine appeals to and represents the subculture of 16-24 year old indie rockers, who are generally portrayed as white, middle class, and individual free spirits. The magazine aims to represent both male and female indie rockers.

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

3. Contents Page The natural facial expressions on the images show that the magazine represents the sub-culture of “indie rockers” because these are the type of expressions that would be associated with them My contents page Contents page of Q magazine Both contents pages have a editorial or review. The language used in these is chatty and informal, representing the particular social group I am targeting my magazine at. It therefore relates to the target audience. The colour scheme used on the contents pages are similar which shows that my music magazine would be appealing to the social group it is trying to represent.

4. Double page spread My double page spread Double page spread from NME magazine Features used such as the standfirst, drop capital, image led page and big title show that these double page spreads are similar. It therefore shows that my music magazine represents the social group and sub-culture of indie rockers as that is the social group that NME is aimed at. The clothing that the artists are wearing also show that the target audience are “indie rockers” because these are the sort of clothes/style that they would wear /follow.

6. Do you deal with issues of race, ethnicity, gender and disability? Indie rockers are generalised to be seen as white. This may be because big music festivals such as Glastonbury and Reading are situated in England. This does not however mean that all people of this social group are white but it is a stereotypical view. Indie rockers are also seen to be free, spontaneous, quirky and individual characters. I portrayed these view in my music magazine so these issues have been dealt with. My media product is aimed at both male and females so the issue of gender is referred to here. To ensure my magazine appealed to both genders, I used a colour scheme that could typically attract both males and females (black, red and yellow) and I also used images of both male and females so that the target audience of the magazine was clear.

7. Social group of teenage “indie rockers”

8. Indie/rock style