QUESTION 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Describe what your choice of photos tells us about the audience you are creating your magazine for. What techniques did you use and why? For what effect?
The audience I used for my magazine was teenagers/adults. My photos represent this as I used a young teenage girl on my front cover. Also throughout the rest of my photos I used there are teenagers used. Also I used props in my photo shoots for my magazine. This shows the target audience that the magazine is music based. I had to link the props to the music genre.

Do the same for your choice of language. What did you write about? What would your audience be most interested in?
I used informal language in some cases throughout my magazine. I used this to attract the audience which is teenagers. To find out what I had to write about, I used a questionnaire to find out information on what my target audience would be interested in. My readership profile shows what my audience was most interested in.

Describe the overall image (how they want to look) and lifestyle (how they want to be) of your audience and how you put this across in your magazine
The overall image for the audience of my magazine is teenagers that are interested in music and festivals. The ways I put this across in my magazine was including vital images and information that would attract the correct target audience. For example my target audience was interested in festivals. I found this out from carrying out my questionnaire therefore I thought it was a vital point to include in my magazine.

What sort of things would you see most often in the magazine, what would you also occasionally see and what would you never see?
In my magazine the most common thing to see would be information on concerts and festivals. Occasionally the audience would see information on music awards shown on TV with write ups in the magazine. The audience would never see music that is from the ‘classical’ genre. This is because my questionnaire shows that the most common genre was ‘rock’ and ‘classical’ was the least common.