How does your media product represent social groups?

•      The main image shows a fairly young man who is in his late teens/early twenties, he is dressed in black clothing and a hoodie with his hood up, which is what many people would expect of a typical teenager. He has a positive facial expression which breaks the teenage stereotype slightly as many people expect people who fall into this category to be fairly antisocial. His dark haircut can be compared to the stereotypical ‘emo’ hair cut since the fringe is covering part of his face. In the other images the models are dressing in dominantly black clothing, but with slight grins on their faces, or they are posing for the camera which shows that they are still fairly young. One model is wearing a Green Day t-shirt which represents the social group of younger people who love rock music, as the majority of the time it is only younger people that wear band merchandise. In particular, younger people wear band merchandise in order to feel like they are part of a group. Therefore, this makes readers alike feel as if they are ‘part of the scene’. The font selection for the cover lines, mast head, and article writing is modern and clear in order to appeal to the younger generation. Due to this, you can tell that the magazine isn’t aimed at the older age group, as usually in that instance, the font would be more formal.

•       The Facebook and Twitter logos which are shown represent the age group I am trying to target as they are the more common users of this website, it also indicates that the magazine is not supposed to represent middle-aged adults as the majority of them don’t tend to use social media sites as frequently as people in their teens and early twenties do.

•      The article for the double page spread is an interview which is in a colloquial and informal style which I have stated previously. For example, the interviewer begins the interview with ‘Hey man, how’s it going?’ and the interviewee responds with ‘Good ta’ as opposed to answering with ‘I’m good thank you.’ This reflects the way that young adults speak to each other, because you can assume  that the interviewer, who is also the editor,  is probably fairly young also. This is shown by the picture on the contents page which matches with the editorial.