Evaluation Question Two

How does the Media Product represent a particular social group?

If there were to be one big downfall on my pages it would have to my photos. All three are incredibly similar, and thus not offering a wide range of social groups or perspectives.

However these photos do present one fairly important social group, that being the same social group of my magazine's target audience. This particular individual, originates from a working class family, with a moderate/poor income. He/she does reasonably well in school and going on to university and so on. Most of the particular social group would have aspirations to become musicians.  As a fair majority of the social group are going through adolescence their view on life might be slightly grim and they may feel unhappy (as teenagers do).

I feel I have represented this social group (on the front cover) by in the Splash using the wording "MICK JAGGER, SIT DOWN" This presents a sense of arrogance and attitude that is commonly depicted in that very social group (as described above) The colour scheme of the page (that being red) symbolises danger. This is something that this particular social group admires, (sometimes) encourage and quite possibly desire.. This is due to their erratic and sometimes immature behaviour.

Moving on to the Main Image we are presented with a young male model with a sense of arrogance and attitude-again mirroring the particular social group. The model is pretending to a musician, of which most of the social group aspire to become, making the model the spitting image of the social group. The style of the Main Image is very heavy, with the camera being so close to the model's face it gives a sense of intimidation, something that the very poor parts of my social group could be considered as being like.  The model's clothing in the Main Image is a basic hoodie. This is meant to symbolise his working class roots-again working class is the class of which most the particular social group have originated from.  The model's facial expression and (ever so) slanted head again suggests a sense of intimidation, but also confidence.. This is something that the social group holds as confidence and hard work have got them to where they are. The model himself does genuinely look like someone in a band, either a Indie or a rock band (two music choices that are covered in the magazine, and genres that the social group like) The model's hair in the Main Image is a very modern style. This shows that the social group is very much in touch with modern day style.. and music. The black and white effect of the Main Image symbolised that the particular social group is sometimes marginalised. That their voice/viewpoint isn't often heard. The model's artist is in the magazine to defy this. The social group has sometimes been marginalised due to the middle/lower class background, The Mix (if real) would defy this.

All of these observations have been made, after taking influence for the particular social group after seeing the cover (to the right) it possesses the same degree of intimidation and confidence as my magazine's model does. It might be argued that the Arctic Monkeys were once part of the particular social group I take about above.

 

 In my contents page image the same model has been placed against a wall.  The wall is meant to symbolise the struggle to achieve his dream, the writing block he has recently gained, his childhood roots and his honesty as an artist. This shows that the social group are very much aware and proud of the background and upbringing, that they don't shy away from it. This also mirrors their honesty as a person, in fact echoing my description of my model's artist. To further prove their honesty as people the following Pull-quote perfectly exemplifies it , "I accept I've been in trouble and sometimes I've had to pay the price".


I told the model to have one ear-phone in his ear. This shows that the social group are very much into music. This again proves that my choice of model has a (near) perfect representation of the social group



My final picture is probably my weakest and probably represents the social group in the most little way. It does however echo the representational factors in the previous pictures. The "in your face" intimidation, the confidence and energetic youth all mirror the representational factors in the previous factors.

The use of "...FINALLY" mirrors the social groups idea that the good in life has finally arrived, that they have been hard done by. They may very well have this view because most probably are in their teens and feel that things are going against them, and just having a negative view on life.