How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• I have used young and fashionable people inside my magazine in order to create a youth orientated magazine that will attract the appropriate audience. By using models that are dressed in a contemporary, stylish fashion and are wearing current styles of makeup and hair, young people will find the models and content relatable and therefore appealing.

• My photography reinforces this idea by using close up shots that use direct mode of address in order to help the reader create a bond with the artist. I have also used fashionable props in order to do this, as by using popular styles of clothing I am fitting in my genre of mainstream chart music, as people who follow music trends are likely to do the same with fashion.

• This is giving a positive and stereotypical representation of youth today as it is showing the pop artists in a happy and optimistic manner. This upbeat and youthful representation is stereotypical as it fits with the genre of lighthearted and fun pop culture which is appealing to people who are interested in this genre and follow more mainstream trends. Both males and females are also represented in this positive manner through the magazine as both sexes are represented through the media product.