Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent social groups?

 

 

 

 

 

When creating my media product I was aiming it a stereotypical younger age range, swaying more towards girls but overall a uni-sex magazine. When looking at my magazine I think its instantly noticeable what social group its aimed at. It features artists such as Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus etc, artists liked globaly by the young generation. Because of this its noticeable what social group/target audience I'm aiming at. If I wanted to attract a more mature age range id feature artists more appealing to them so there more inclined to buy the magazine. However because I want to target the younger audience I featured these ones. Also my colour range is quite bold and wacky, something a younger person would be more attracted to. Stereotypically a more mature age range would go more for sophisticated more thought out layout such a magazines like Vogue etc. However because my magazine is bright and jam packed with content and images, its more appealing on the eye to those who are younger.

When researching for my magazine I also used a demographics table to target my social groups (audience) more effectively.I aimed to target blocks E,D & C2 mainly. This is because these blocks included young people/students etc. By looking at this I felt I could pin point  the type of social group I want to represent with my magazine more effectively. This allowed me to create my magazine in  a way that’d be appealing to this social group, were as a contrasting social group who like Rock music. This social group would more than likely stay away from my magazine because it is not what appeal to them, but because I'm targeting a social group that likes POP music this will really appeal to them.

Because of my bold use of colours and selective choice of artists I believe my magazine represents a young social group very well.I feel it appeals to their needs,and would entice them to buy it.As all the latest artists of their favourite genre are featured.Ive also used corresponding features to the genre within the plug.I featured the hottest fashion picks by an artist.So not only is clothes/makeup a really popular thing within this type of social group its featured with  a well known artist.

Also because my magazine has content of gossip,music,fashion its going to attract social groups who are interested in this to.I wanted to make sure that audience I was targeting knew this magazine was aimed at them.I tried to keep as conventional as possible, and feature everything youd expect ot see it that genre. So my POP magazine represents social groups who enjoy reading this kind of media.