This document summarizes how a music magazine represents its target social groups. The magazine targets young girls ages 10-16 through the use of an attractive 18-year-old male cover star that the target audience finds appealing. Bright colors like blue and yellow are used on the cover to catch the eye of the target audience. The journalism in the magazine uses simple formal language that is easy for its young readers to understand without being informal. Popular artists like Justin Bieber and One Direction that appeal to young audiences are featured on the cover and contents pages.

1. Question 2: How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
My music magazine genre is pop music it is represented by quite a
young target audience who are mainly female and between the ages
of 10-16.Through the usage of an attractive 18 year old male as the
cover star of my magazine, I was able to represent and appeal to my
target audience who are young girls who fantasise over attractive 18
year old males. Because of my cover star young girls are more likely to
purchase my magazine as they see something that they dream of
having. The way my artist is dressed also appeals to my target audience
as he is dressed in a vest top which shows of his body and a snapback.
This is what attracts the target audience because he stands out to them.
It is also fashionable and what most male artists wear. I also think that
the usage of bright colours played a key part in attracting the young
target audience who are mainly females. I have used a bright blue and
yellow because I felt they were appropriate colours to use in order to
make the magazine stand out and catch the audience’s eye. I thought
that the colours I used was good colours because they are bright and
makes the page stand out even more which is a key part in my
magazine.

2. For the journalism part of my magazine I have used basic simple
language which will be easier for my young target audience to
understand and therefore will appeal to them. I did not want to use
informal language because I did not want to conform to the
stereotype that teenagers and young children use informal
language and understand it better. I wanted to display this by using
formal but simple language in my magazine to represent that my
target audience have a good intellectual understanding.
In both my front cover and contents pages I have mentioned the
names of popular mainstream artists who appeal to my young
target audience such as Justin Bieber, Cher Lloyd, JLS and One
Direction.