Evaluation: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represents the social group that is most likely to read my magazine. It represents the artist featured in a positive way as it portrays them as a successful person. If the audience were just looking at the photos they would probably see the main artist in a negative light as he is pictured in a rough looking area wearing a hooded top which is a bad stereotype, however the reader may understand that is just the trend for Hip – Hop music. But the text represents the artist in a good light as it is an interview and the type of answers he gives makes him seem like a good person, the answers in the interview that relate back to his home town will represent him in a good light as it will give the audience the impression that he is a down to earth person that has not forgotten his roots, things such as this will make him an easily likeable public figure. Also the artist being pictured in a rough back ground will have connotations of a “rags to riches” story which will make younger readers idolise the artist and also this will make the artist more likeable to the reader as they will feel like they are on the same level as he once was. The genre of music is represented in a typical way, things such as image locations being in urban areas are all stereotypical of Hip – Hop music, also the language used is specific to the type of people that are most likely to read the magazine which could make them appear in a positive or negative light. I think that the genre of music being represented in that way is good as it will help the product appeal to the target audience and also people that are not in my target audience would understand why the music is being represented in that way as each genre of music seems to have its own unique image and language style.