Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The ways I have tried to present social groupsI have found that representing social groups in my magazine has been an important factor because it is how you make your magazine appeal to the target audience.I have used images as the main way in trying to present this, by using the style, mise-en-scene so for example the costume and variety of the images.

In this image, I have used a young looking artist, who is dressed in a fashionable way. This will attract the audience because it is aimed at 16-25 years old, she has an up to date hair style/colour which is very ‘in’. Even though we don’t see any brands, her costume still fits the ‘RnB’ look and would still be a how the target audience of my magazine would dress, co-ordinating the dark makeup with her bandana makes her look ‘cool’. I chose my artist to pose in the way because it is slightly low angle and this makes her seem authoritative, she looks edgey and stands out like a typical RnB artist would.

These are the images I used for my contents page. These show the particular social groups that I want them to.The images in the polaroid shots are of the artist which is the main artist of this issue, she seems to be happy and does the ‘illuminati’ sign which a lot of people are recently into relating to the young audience this is quite typical RnB hip hop poses as she shows her edge by sticking her tongue out.The picture of Eminem’s CD disk relates to the ‘rap’ side of RnB, this then links in with maybe more of the male social groups who like this side of RnB, more street.The picture of the live performance links in with social groups who like to go out and watch these, it is very common for RnB artists like Rihanna to do concerts and a popular age group to go and see these would be my target audience.

Usually when an artist is taking part in a photo shout it is continued the same type throughout, I decided to take this approach. This image of her putting on her lipstick shows her getting ready to go out and do something, this links in with my target audience as they will commonly do this. This shows the types of social groups who like to dress up and do these makeup so typical young girls. Her banana and accessories is seen as socially fashionable. This may represent she is a popular girl and this is linked with the fact she is famous artist. She will also be seen as fashionable inspiration for people who think this fashion suits their social group.