Media Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My magazine represent young people such as students and people of low demographics that would like to achieve there goals and become successful. My magazine is a featured Rap magazine, because of this it helps give the audience by them more desire to succeed. It gives the audience this motivation as many rap artists promote a rags to riches lifestyle. Many Rap magazines also mention and refer to money and power a lot of the time again driving the audience towards achieving success.

Power

50 Cent is an idol for going from drug dealer to Rap entrepreneur

The particular target audience that my magazine would represent would be young people such as students because magazines like this helps them strive for success and aim for higher goals. My magazine does this well as it promises interviews with the artists which they look up too and idolise. By using exclusive interviews in my magazine this would draw in my audience as they would be interested in looking at how their favourite artists got to where they are. Promising exclusive interviews is also a unique selling point for the magazine.

Exclusive interview

My magazine though could represent this particular group through a stereotypical way. Because my magazine is a Rap magazine this genre could be easily associated with violence and explicit language. This is why I have to make the magazine look professional and relate to success while still keeping its aggressive “gangsta” image to suit the genre. My magazine also refers to power as it is the contrast to what the social group are as they are lower demographic people, showing them what they can achieve.