Q2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My music magazine target audiences are both male and female, ages 16-25 and my subaltern is RnB, Pop with a bit of Hip Pop. Reasons for the ages is because, 16-25 are known to be  more interested in music magazine and fashion, also my magazine has young people as my front cover, and elderly people wouldn’t be interested as much as the younger people. Also the artists mentioned on my magazines are all modern day artist and not no one from the 90s. I was able to attract females to my magazine based on my front cover; it had all females dressed appropriately, not showing cleavage or skin. This is a good thing because most females hate seeing other females expose their body for attention, instead get the attention through how great you are and not how great your body is.  Adding to that I was able to get males attention as they’re all girls on my front cover, and men love ladies. The fact that they are all beautiful and talented lades makes it even better and an even more reason to get to know them.
 

I had an idea of my social group and represented it through my magazine, but my image in my front cover didn’t relate that only because, I realised that when we think of power, normally we think of male dominated, so I decided to use females instead to show change in power however, my models being all black is because now-a-days you don’t see many black successful people on front cover, especially black successfully women.

They were all wearing colourful clothes reason for this is that, it was more welcoming and the colours are very bright and welcoming which helps. This look is more in the pop culture, the clothes are fashionable.

The models on my front cover weren’t wearing so many accessories, makeup or even fail nails and eyelashes.  The whole idea was to keep it natural, simple and fun. Let the image speak for itself. Another reason is because in most magazines you see a lot of women’s faces laid with pails of makeup just to get the audience attention. I wanted people to look at my magazine to see simplicity, not fakeness.

My content page also followed the conventions used in an actual magazine. I was able to copy the convention of a content page as I analysed a real music magazine content page. I also challenged the convention by putting my ‘GOLD’ ‘O’ symbol  at the top of my content page so it could be recognised, and where ever that sign is people will know its Gold magazine without even having to see the name of the magazine (GOLD). I also used pictures to attract the audience. I used pictures that would connect with my cover line.

I added categories vertically on my page; this convention is used in music magazine which lays out your content page neatly and makes things easier to read.

Also my double page spread follows the convention. Firstly I used a huge picture on the right hand side of my magazine, and a simple colour scheme so that they both look professional. I made my headline stand out as I wanted it to catch the attention of my target audience.