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How
does your media product represent particular social groups?
My particular social group for my media product is 14-21 year olds who
are interested in listening to undiscovered artists/bands.
Front Cover
For my front cover I have tried to use the same conventions that similar
music magazines use that are targeted at the same age range as me, however
sometimes I may challenge the music magazines conventions as my media product
has a unique selling point; to have undiscovered artists/bands in my music
magazine so that they can become discovered by my target audience without the
aid of talent shows.
An example how I have represented my target audience is that I have
included websites links on my front cover as the target audience I have chosen
will typically be interested in, know how to use and would like to use digital
media, so I have included it into my media product.
Also for my music magazine I
have used female models and male models who are in my the age range of my
target audience as this is what they do in real life music magazines, as it
allows the target audience know who the audience is aimed at as a music magazine
would have teenagers- early twenties on it, eg. Sugar magazine, who has a
target audience of 16-28 year olds, so they have put Miley Cyrus who is in her
twenties. But because my media product is aimed at female 14-21 year olds I
will include artists/bands who appeal to my target audience, which would
include people they may know or haven’t been discovered yet.
However I have also included many different genres of music from
different types of artists and bands so that males and different age groups may
also find my media product appealing too.
I have chosen predominantly 14-21 year old females as my target
audience because at that moment in time of life they may still be unsure as to
what they’re going to do as a career, so I have created a music magazine which
is about artists/bands and how they got to be where they are today, why they
decided to choose music, and if they enjoy it, so that it would inspire them to
get into music, or just be more involved in music.
I have also represented my social group in the pricing of my media
product in that I have decided to sell my music magazine for £2.99. At this
price it is cheap enough for my target audience to buy as at this age they
usually don’t have a lot of money and it is also a competitive price compared
to other music magazine, which is aimed at my target audience.
Also my product masthead
looks like VOGUE magazine, which also has a female target audience so that my
target audience knows that my magazine is for them, as well as knowing that
like the look of my revisited magazine, VOGUE looks sophisticated and has a
similar masthead.
Contents
Page
For my front cover I have tried to appeal to my target audience by
making the layout of my contents page the same as ‘Q’ magazine, as I already
know that my target audience like that layout as they buy that music magazine and
have also used the same type of image for my revisited magazine as the ‘GLAMOUR’
magazine as it signifies what I want my magazine to look like; professional and
strong.
I have also included many different genres and artists/bands so that my
target audience would at least like one artist/band from my music magazine, as
they wouldn’t buy a music magazine where the artists/bands that are in it don’t
appeal to them, no matter how much they may like my layout.
I have also put a website on my contents page so that they can check
out the magazine online as people from my target audience are typically
interested in digital media, so I decided to include this into my music
magazine.
Double Page Spread
For my double page spread I have represented a particular social group
in that I have put a young female as the image as you need to have a person
from your target audience to be in your media product as this is what they do
in real magazines, for example in NME magazine and Vogue magazine they have
used models who are in their target audience.
I have also used only one image so that it is stripped back enough to
appeal to 21 year olds, but enough images so that it appeals to 14 year olds
and the age range in between. I have also not put a lot of text on my double
page spread so that it appeals to 14 year olds, but I have also put enough text
in so that 21 year olds will be interested in the article.
