Question 2 Evaluation- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation is the act of communicating on behalf of other people. I think that my media product represents all fans of rock music well. The constant use of red throughout the magazine gives it quite a powerful and strong feeling  as I feel that it is quite a strong colour which represents the rock genre well. I also attempted to create this same effect by using quite rough/messy fonts (mostly on the front cover) and I think this also helps to represent rock music. There is an example of this below in my masthead.

Another way that I represented the rock genre in my magazine was by making sure that my models had quite serious expressions on their face to fit in with most other rock magazines and to keep with the stereotype of young people generally being anti social and troublesome. This picture shows that I made sure my models had serious face expressions for the main front cover picture.

As well as making sure that the models facial expressions were correct, I also took my photos in a dark forest to give the photos quite a dark and sinister feel which links back to rock music very well. This can also be seen in the picture above. In general through my magazine pages I encouraged the stereotypes of young people behaving anti socially as in my article it talks about how they put school on the side-line so that they could do more with their music.

I made sure that my models were close to my customer profile (White, Male,Teenager) so that alot of the readers would be able to relate to them and  want find out more about them.