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.

Question 1 Evaluation

Question 1 Evaluation

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Final Magazine Pages

Magazine Pages (Front Cover, Contents and Double Page Spread)

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Spotify and Napster

Spotify is an online music streaming service which allows users to instantly stream millions of songs. Free users have to put up with ads and limited song plays however a subscription service is available which allows users to access songs an unlimited amount of times without ads. There are also many other premium features included in this subscription, which costs £9.99 a month. I use the premium service myself and it easily allows me to make playlists of all of my favourite songs, and even make them available on my phone using the spotify app. There is also a version for half of the cost which just removes the advertisements and allows unlimited plays on all songs. There has been a lot of controversy about the rights that Spotify have to allow them to play songs from different record labels however they now have the rights for Sony, EMI, Universal and Warner Music Group, amongst many other independent labels.

Napster first launched in 1999 as an independent peer to peer file sharing service, heavily based on audio files. They had their most successful period in February 2001.This company eventually ran into a lot of legal problems over copyright infringement and had to close down, before being bought by Roxio. It then went through a phase of being an online music store, similar to iTunes or Amazon MP3 store. Recently in December 2011 Napster merged with Rhapsody, which is a browser based music streaming website similar to Spotify.

Word Map about Music Magazines