2.     How does your media product represent particular social group?

I believe that my media work that has been produced is targeted at mainly young black females this is because of the title of the magazine some men may feel patronized for picking up a magazine because of this I made sure that I mad the magazine also available to men and have put some R&B and hip hop artist inside of my magazine. I wanted to make sure that I can sell my magazine to both sex and not feel biased about having my magazine available to one selection of people, it also helps to sell effectively as because there are lot of different stars people are bound to find someone they like and be attracted to my magazine. My main age group is around 16-25 which is like a wide spread of ages this is because there is so much that my music magazine has to offer. My target groups will be attracted by the front cover and heading ‘bold and beautiful’ which will helps to attract people as they see this headline. However I also added some famous men so it can also attract the male audiences.

I put it in a style of a mnemonic:

Snoop dog

T-pain

Akon

Rick Ross

I used this mnemonic to help attract my male readers and used people that I know that the target age range would listen to such as these hip hop and r & b players, thesae artist ar4e all different and will help to attract to different people who are into their music which is why I have a wide spread on the age group however my magazine is more suitable for urban listeners, I thought it was a really smart way to introduce the stars to the front cover and having it read out stars.

 

Even though my model has dressed normally it helps to give a natural look to my magazine of a beautiful girl who doesn’t need to wear make up, my model is wearing a black and brown jumper to match my theme and is in casual clothing, which can help her to relate to the girls of today and show them they do not need the finer things in life, it also helps with the soft and natural look that I am trying to display hence the reason why I chose the colour brown because it is a natural colour.

We can see even by this magazine, he is a famous celebrity ‘trey songz’ he is also just in all black and in casual clothing, even though he is rich. This helps to set a good meaning to the children of today and let them know that it is not all about the expensive clothing and is what I want to represent in my magazine to my social groups. My model is hardly wearing any jewelry, apart from the natural beads around my models wrist which helps to represent my magazine. The beads she is wearing looks handmade and attracts the audience as she has not jewelry around her too look good.   

The model is a light brown colour which is usually the colour of the models that they like to use on a front cover in the media industry which is quite stereotypical as when we think of soul, automatically we have a light skin man or woman for a model and they have a natural and smooth face.  

Just like in these professional magazines, it my models hair is licked and her hair is not covering her face as that’s the whole reason for showing her natural beauty, which helps to represent to my audience why I called it ‘bold and beautiful’ also the way soulful music are represented in the industry this helped me.