The document discusses how a youth magazine called "Grime" represents various social groups. It represents youth as a general social group, featuring stars who are fresh out of school with only a few years of music industry experience and who come from humble backgrounds like the target audience. The social groups are portrayed very positively, as driven people with hopes and dreams challenging stereotypes of lazy, grumpy teens. This is shown through features discussing artists' confidence issues and messages about always having room for growth, presented in a way that does not conform to negative stereotypes usually shown in media. The goal is to represent every social group under "youth" or "teen" positively to challenge stereotypes and give readers something uplifting to relate to
1. Question 2 - How does
your media product
represent particular
social groups?
2. My Magazine “Grime”
what different social group is represented?
I believe that my magazine presents youth as a
general social group, even the “established”
stars in the magazine e.g Shanice are only just
fresh out of school and have only had a few
years experience in the music industry, All the
stars come from humble backgrounds as well
just the normal like my target audience. So it
is also a relatable inspirational figure.
3. What particular way are that social
group represented?
I Believe that the social group featuring in my magazine
project a very positive attitude towards youth. They are
presented as very driven people filled with hopes and
dreams. This is great as they are from normal working
class families as most of my readers will be just like I am I
feel seeing someone like yourself succeed would be
much more beneficial then seeing someone completely
unreliable achieve something. This challenges the usual
stereotype of a teen from the suburbs as usually they are
portrayed as lazy grumpy people who are going no where
and to have successful young people in my magazine
giving a positive message to the readers defiantly does
not conform to the generalisation of the media that is
4. How is this shown?
This message is particularly strong in my double page spread “there is always
room for growth as an artist” in real life this translates as there is always
room for improvement, you can always achieve more and this is an
extremely positive reoccurring message throughout my magazine. But i
[particularly like that the mise en scene for the photographs in the
magazine do conform to the normal stereotype i want everything to be
the same as normal except for the content as that will make a bigger
statement than anything to have them look exactly like the teenagers
people love to moan about but have them talk about bright dreams for
the future or confidence issues will make it more poignant than anything
else
My double page spread also address “Established” Artists
confidence issues another thing for maybe inspiring artist to
see and relate to or just people with low self esteem to go
through again this does not conform to the normal “youth”
stereotype as we are usually shown to be crude, arrogant
rude people but in my magazine we look at people who dont
believe in themselves enough
5. Why is each social group represented
in this way?
I wanted to represent every different social group that
falls under the category of “youth” or “teen” positively
and completely challenge the stereotype always held
about people our age, Because I thought it was only
fair if other publications write negatively some should
speak positively but also because they are the target
audience for my magazine and no one would buy a
magazine if a group that they are part of was
constantly getting digs at or told how bad they all are.
They want to buy something to escape or give them
hope or make them feel positively and negative
portrayals of as group in which they belong would not
do that at all.
