1. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents the early teenage girl and this product shows an insight into their lives. I have tried reaching out to this certain type of audience by embedding their interests within this product. The content of my magazine reflects this as it shows all of this certain audience’s interests which are expected to include things such as fashion, beauty and pop music. It also uses celebrities to its favour as it includes articles which are directed towards this age group to spike this audience’s interest of the magazine type. The language within this magazine help relate to this audience as it is shown to not be the formal language of a middle aged woman but of a young girls dialect including humour and less formal topics to keep this audiences attention. The layout of this product attracts this type of viewer because the many images and colour schemes used are themes that would appeal to this type of reader as the bright colours attract their attention and the pictures show more of a visual product meaning less formal information which this type of audience could easily loose attention with the product because of.

The bright greens and reds used within my magazine suggest a certain fun and upbeat audience tying in with the playful image shown on the front cover of the magazine. This represents my target audience as being fun and unique as it suggests a more fun take on a magazine rather than formal magazine used to put across information to an older audience.

My magazine is shown to expect the audience to be a stereotypical female teen as it expects them to know the bands other teens are interested in and to be interested in the latest fashions. It expects the audience to have a keen interest in certain bands and festivals as it shows information to certain popular bands and places to be among other teens.