How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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1. How does yourmedia product representparticular social groups? 2. What does it mean to represent? The description or portrayal of someone orsomething in a particular way or as being of acertain nature. 3. My Social GroupMy magazine mostly represents teenagers/young adults between the ages of 16-20 who would like to know more about the country genre. In some ways my magazine targets teens who are wanting to enter the music industry themselves and those who just enjoy listening to music. I wanted my magazine to appeal to a larger range of young people because I wanted to show everyone how diverse the genre can be and how it has changed through time to a more modern way. In order to bring the magazine into currents times I had to choose my model, colouring schemes and layout carefully but I still wanted to keep the typical country theme in the magazine. 4. GenderEven though any genre of music could appeal to either genderI wanted my magazine to be more female based. Eventhough you would tend to use a female model in a malebased magazine because of the attraction I wanted to use afemale because readers would aspire to be them whichwould appeal to my target audience. I wanted my model todress fairly naturally so that my audience could relate tobeing like her and make them feel that they are like her insome sense, from research I learnt that this is what theyprefer. 5. Teenage Life.Typically teenagers seem to like to talk and read about general life and in ways I wanted my magazine to be able to relate to this through music. I did this particularly in my double page spread interview where the model had to answer questions. Having her talk about her life before and after fame would be easy to relate to for my target audience because at the ages of 16-20 they are at the stage of career choices, and I would hope that this article would help them achieve their goals. 6. The Age Range.My target audience is aged between 16-20 (I am in this age range myself) and I know personally that it is in this point in your life when you have to start making big decisions, and I wanted to make this connected to music in my magazine. I wanted this magazine to show that no matter what you want to do it is possible if you work hard (as clich as it may be) I think my target audience would be interested in this because they would have a lot of pressure on them so they would be looking for somewhere with advice. 7. Socio-Economic Groups.Having different economic groups and classes can effect anaudience on what they read and what they buy so I wanted mymagazine to appeal to mainly middle and some lower class.Firstly I made my price 1.50 (extremely cheap I know) but thiswas so that everyone could get introduced to the magazine andfind out new things about the genre, doing this would widenpeoples knowledge. Not only this but I had a Win section inmy magazine which allowed readers to win concert tickets whichI think would appeal to middle class as from research Idiscovered musical events such as this are what people like to doin their spare time. 8. Conclusion.Overall I think I had been able to represent my target market group well because through my magazine I have shown the hard working side of teens who will work for achieving a goal (C Baker) This article allowed teens to relate and help them achieve their goals in life.