The document discusses the representation of social groups in a media product. It notes that only young females were included as models. To improve representation, young males from the target audience should also have been included. The models were posed in casual, comfortable outfits and smiling poses to appeal to the target audience. Bright colors and articles about gossip and looks were used to communicate stereotypes about the social group. While some dominant ideas about the target audience of teenage girls were supported through fashion/beauty focused content, unedited images were also included to challenge unrealistic standards of perfection.

1. QUESTION 2
How does your media product
represent particular social
groups?

2. Who have you included images of on
your work?
• I used various people to model for my work.
• I made sure they were all young females. To
improve I needed to have used young males
also as my target audience are interested in
teenage male artists and boy bands.
• I used friends and sisters who I had pose as
my Teen Pop artists.

3. How have you posed and dressed
them?
• I had my models wear clothes chosen by me
• For example on my front cover she was
wearing a checked crop-top and a gold
necklace. This is casual and comfortable – how
my target audience would dress. This would
appeal to them
• I also had her in very natural poses, but made
sure she was always smiling as this makes her
more inviting to the audience.

4. What does your mise-en-scne
communicate about the people
represented?
• I have used many bright colours which communicated
that the people represented are exciting and full of life.
They are not interested in dull colours and like contrast.
The colours are also linked with their gender – female.
• I included articles related to gossip and looks. This
communicated that young females are interested in
this sort of thing. This however is just following
stereotypes of what a females ‘should’ be interested in.
• I used images where the models looked edited and
posed. This is what most magazines do as they want
the artists to look as perfect as possible.

5. How does you product represent your
target audience?
• I used young female models for my magazine – my target audience
are girls aged between 13-19 years.
• I also used bright colours as my target audience is young and full of
life, I wouldn’t have wanted to use colours that were too
sophisticated and boring.
• I used coverlines that were dramatic and gossip fuelled. This is
because young girls are very interested in gossip or anything
embarrassing – as I learnt from my target audience research. I also
made sure to include lots of images as this was one of the most
popular choices on my questionnaire.
• In my interview I also asked a question about ‘twitter’ a modern
social media website. This is because the target audience of Teen
Pop are young so would have grown up surrounded by technology.
This means they will be interested in questions like these and would
feel like they could relate as they would most likely have twitter
accounts also.

6. Does your representation you offer
challenge or support dominant ideas
about your social group?
• The representation I offer supports dominant ideas about my social
group as the young girls are expected to be interested in fashion,
beauty, gossip and boys. I made sure to include these sort of things
in my product as these are stereotypical things they are interested
in.
• I also made sure to use bright colours like pinks and yellows. This is
because females are mostly linked to colours like these because of
gender stereotypes we have be brought up on.
• However, I made sure to have some images that looked natural and
unedited. This is because I do not like the fact magazines Photoshop
models to make them look ‘perfect’. It is setting unrealistic
expectations into the heads of young girls who are easily
influenced. I wanted to have the models look quite relaxed and
smiling. I wanted to give off this positive vibe to my audience as I
felt this would be more appealing to them as the models look more
like themselves.