The document discusses how a magazine portrays people, places, and events. The magazine portrays youth as outgoing people with music hobbies. It features a smiling photo of Leo on the cover to portray youth in a positive way. The magazine includes interviews with teenagers that contain swearing, which could be a negative stereotype but appeals to the target audience. The magazine also portrays Bedfordshire positively by listing local events. Overall, the magazine aims to portray people and places in a positive light to avoid offending readers or the local community where it will be sold.

1. Question 3
Reflect on how you have
represented people,
places, events in your
magazine pages.

2. In my magazine I portrayed the youth as outgoing
people with interesting hobbies. This is because my
magazine is about music which is seen as a hobby
and my magazine includes a list of events of
concerts which portrays my target audience as
outgoing people.

3. My main image, which
is of Leo, is the main
portrayal of the youth in
my magazine as it is the
first image someone
sees. Although he
appears to be looking
quite tough with crossed
arms, I made him smile
in the photo so that he
would not be a negative
representation. I used a
long shot of him to show
his whole body
language.

4. I stuck to the stereotypes
of the youth by using
swearing, as
stereotypically teenagers
do swear a lot, and this
can be seen in the
interview where the
people I interviewed are
teenagers and they do
swear. This could be a
negative stereotype
which I have portrayed in
my magazine however it
does appeal to the target
audience.

5. In the magazine, one place that has been
represented is Bedfordshire. I think I portrayed a
positive representation of Bedfordshire as the list of
events are all around and therefore portrays it as a
community.

6. Overall my magazine portrays people and
places in a positive way which is good
because it will not offend anyone who is
reading it or the local area which is where it
is going to be sold. If I was to do this
magazine again, or if I had more time, for
the main image I would have focused on
using more mise en scene such as a guitar
on the front cover because the magazine
doesn’t look like it could immediately be to
do with music and therefore people might
not pick it up.

7. Overall my magazine portrays people and
places in a positive way which is good
because it will not offend anyone who is
reading it or the local area which is where it
is going to be sold. If I was to do this
magazine again, or if I had more time, for
the main image I would have focused on
using more mise en scene such as a guitar
on the front cover because the magazine
doesn’t look like it could immediately be to
do with music and therefore people might
not pick it up.