This document summarizes how a media product represents teenagers. It features a 17-year old singer, Oceana, on the cover wearing typical teenage clothing like a band t-shirt to represent teenagers. The cover also includes two teenage boys as free posters. Oceana is described as not wearing much makeup and dressed casually in jeans, intended to portray her as a normal teenager. The writing aims to be accessible to teenagers by using a simple question and answer format in interviews and avoiding overly informal or formal language. The target audience of teenagers can relate to Oceana attending sixth form college like a normal student.

1. Question Two - How does your
media product represent
particular social groups?
Katy Marwood

2. I have chosen to represent teenagers in my media product. This is
because I am a teenager myself and know what kind of things most
teenagers like. However, a secondary audience for my media product
could be young adults around the age of 20-25 who enjoy music from
the genre.

3. I have shown the models on the front cover of my magazine to be teenagers by
the clothes they wear and how they present themselves. I have three models in
my magazine – a teenage girl (the main feature) and two teenage boys (free
posters).

4. My main feature is a seventeen year old singer named Oceana, she’s not wearing a lot of
makeup so she looks her age and she’s dressed like a typical teenager. Her hair is very natural
and she looks like a seventeen year old unlike other celebrities the same age that dress to
impress other people and appeal to a wide audience. On the front cover she’s wearing a band t
shirt (Arctic Monkeys – a band of the indie rock genre and also a band featured on the front
cover) and on the double page spread Oceana is wearing jeans and plain clothes, this clothing
choice causes no other social groups to become offended as nothing she’s wearing affects or
promotes things like drugs/swearing/ethnicities/ religion/culture.Making Oceana wear clothes that
are intended to offend would be very controversial and sales of my magazine would drop and it’s
a morally wrong thing to do anyway even though a lot of magazines still do it to attract a larger
audience and generate bad publicity. Oceanas clothing choices don’t distract the reader from the
main focus of the feature which is her music and her career.

5. I took the age of my audience into consideration
when writing my magazines double page spread.
As the audience is primarily teenagers certain
linguistic choices had to be made during the
process of writing. I didn’t want my writing to be too
formal but I also didn’t want my writing to be too
informal as I personally as a sixteen year old think
too much of informal language in magazines is very
patronising and unprofessional especially if they
target audience for the magazine is people above
the age of thirteen.
So, I decided to write an introductory paragraph
which tells the audience background information of
Oceana and what she has so far achieved in her
short career at such a young age.

6. My target audience are again represented in my
magazine as
my main feature is an artist that tries to live life as a
normal teenager and thus attends a Sixth Form
College. Many teenagers will then be able to relate
to Oceana on a personal level and a strong
connection will therefore be created with the singer
down to the magazines interview.
All of the images used in my magazine of Oceana
are very welcoming and do not intimidate/offend the
audience in anyway as the models all look friendly
and inviting.
My interview is wrote in a very simple “question and
answer” format, making it an easy read for the
audience.