question 2 evaluation

Question 2 Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

A lot of magazines target either a certain genre, social group or stereotype. For example, Kerrang is mainly rock music based; therefore its target audience will be a teenage generation and listen to rock music. Another example would be the NME music magazine. It mainly focuses on indie rock music, focusing on fans who enjoy that genre of music and the bands they interview inside of the magazine.

  

My magazines target audience was a twenty to forty year old man music magazine, mainly for men, influence by the GQ Men’s Magazine and the Q Music Magazine. The layout is very simple and the main content would be the in depth interviews and information within the magazine that would attract my target audience. The higher intellectual skills are needed, as it is mainly a text-based magazine with few photos. Therefore younger audience may not be interested in reading so much content.

 

The images in my magazine are easy to look at and show you exactly who is in an interview. For example my front cover is basic, the image has not got much to it, a man dressed formally looking smart, in a way that can appeal to my target audience. Not fashion conscious but still stylish at the same time. Telling the audience who the magazine will be based on and also not being over powered by the information surrounding it.

 

 

  

My double page spread has my model dressed in the same clothing as in the front cover, the clothing is very formal again, which can appeal to any audience, wearing a shirt, tie and carrying a suit jacket. By doing this it makes the model look smart, intelligent and successful. The lack of mise-en-scene around my model and the photo in general keeps it very basic, very easy to look at and a way I believe appeals to my target audience, representing the group of 20 to forty year olds.

 

  

 

My contents page also is a very simple image, very similar to the image on the front cover and the double page spread creating a synergy between the images, the theme stays consistent through the magazine, this will not challenge my target audience. Therefore making the magazine completely targeted towards the twenty to forty year old audience. With less posters, advertisement, images and images that are full of different messages and symbols. Making the written content the main source of information and the main basis of the magazine. Targeting an intellectual reader, rather than a teenager wanting to look at their favorite pop star.

 

   

The representation I offer does not challenge dominant ideas about the social group I have targeted. My magazine is a men’s music magazine, interviewing all genres of music and superstars getting a real in depth guide in the interviews to what is going on in the life of the artists and their music. The images, layout and inside content represents that particular social group. The content is to the point, detailed and informative, the images are simple and do not over power or make up the main basis of the magazine.

I have done nothing to challenge the target audience or try and approach them differently, I have used what I believe are the best ways to represent the certain social group without any stereotyping.