How does your media product represent particular social groups.

QUESTION 2

My magazine covers a fairly vast target audience, which is from the ages of 16-22 I have represented these in fairly different ways. For example on my cover is a boy aged roughly 17 with his hood up, this immediately connotes chav. The lighting around the person is also dim showing perhaps a sense of eeriness around the character. I think this is stereotypical of chavs and thus this is how I chose to represent them. I did consider changing people’s views on chavs but I thought doing so would ruin the feeling I wanted my cover magazine to show.

 

On my DPS (Double page spread) I showed a fairly indie dressed boy (celebrity). I displayed an interview with the individual I think from the questions and responses I chose. I stuck to the typical stereotype that all boys are interested in girls and football. I however did challenge some stereotypes, for example my celebrity talks about clothing brands which is mostly associated with women. In doing so I felt I varied the range of what people would be interested in this particular celebrity. For the pose of my celebrity I chose to him smiling which gives out the impression that indie artists are particularly friendly to their fans and general people. To help create this I made the lighting fairly light which connotes happiness, this also slightly challenges the usual stereotype of a teenager which is a miserable one.