How does your media product represent particular social groups?

It represents young teenage girls as my music magazine is aimed at them. The front cover uses short and snappy sentences and quotes from famous celebrities. This shows that young teenage girls take an interest in famous peoples lives and that they may like to be a bit nosy into their private life. My type of magazine will also include stuff like new brands of clothing and makeup. The reason for this is that my target audience are at the age where this becomes important to them, as they like to always look good. And It may also be to show off their new clothes. Also the colour scheme that I have used for this magazine will represent my target audience’s social group. This is because I have used female colours such as purple, pink and light blue. These represent the social group as girly and like to have a gossip. However, males can still read the magazine even though the colours are for females. The images used throughout the magazine will also represent the social group, as the images that are used are of people who are in a band or a solo singer. These images will show the target audience as females who may be known as ‘fangirls’ and are obsessed with the artist in the image, they are most likely to fancy them aswell. Therefore including articles about a specific person will get my specific social group to buy the magazine. An example would be having a image of a famous artist on the front who they fancy, then have the double page spread all about that artist.

The music magazine will still be appealing to girls who may not feel that they are as popular as other girls that will read the magazine. The reason for this is that they will still be interested in the articles that are included. They may also find the brands of clothing appealing as well. The magazine will not be interesting to older teenagers who are above the age of 18. This is because of the colours used and the type of font. What the articles are about may not be appealing to them either. As the font is bubbly and is much more appealing to a younger audience. The other font that I have used is plain and simple so it can be easily read by who ever buys the magazine.

From looking at the magazine it is clear who will be my targeted social group. This can be seen from reading what the articles will be about and what images have been used. When I say what the articles will be about, I haven’t used words that are too complicated for who my magazine is for. Because if I did then they wouldn’t want to read it as they may not understand what some of the articles about. It may also be because they don’t want to physically find out what something means, but I wouldn’t want them to do this.