1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Social groups
My magazine represents people aged 13 and over. It does this by incorporating simple to read
content, Detailed images of the rappers and charismatic interviews. I used the colours whites, purple
and red to attract many different readers as readers of all ages may not like one aspect of the
magazine but like the other aspect. It is meant to appeal to all audiences bar the younger age group.
I used specific layouts that correspond to rap magazines such The vibe and The source because it is
very recognisable and is tried and tested compared to trying a new layout and new structure which
could bomb when released if the audience don't like it. I tried to appeal to an existing audience for
the genre and tried to lure casual magazine readers to my rap magazine with a blending of two
genres in the magazine industry. The idea of blending is my own idea and has been surveyed on the
forums by random internet people who have reacted negatively towards it which makes it obvious
that it will not appeal to them.
The fonts I used were basic but very clear fonts like those used in The source and NME to advertise
their content in a way that has a reader looking at everything on the front cover and getting
informed by the contents page without have to decipher the wording like it's some type of code. The
types of fonts used were Calibri and Basica 2.0 which are easy texts to read and to innovate with
using Photoshop and InDesign.
The racial groups that I wanted to appeal to were mainly Black, Caucasian and South east asians, I
thought that by using two models from different racial backgrounds people would be happy,
however : when I went to get feed back on my contents page:

2. The racial stereotype mentioned by two of the posters show that the magazine only represents Black
people and white people and it also shows that the magazine appeals to hipsters which is a social
group that buy the latest trending items and wear the latest trending clothes example: