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

My music magazine was designed to appeal to teenagers that are interested in the culture of rap or other hip-hop or RnB. This magazine was made to appeal most to teenagers. In order to appeal mostly to my audience which was teenager’s I had taken pictures of my model in certain ways and made my model dress in a certain way which is appealing to targeted audience so it is more attractive.

This is the image taken of my model, for this picture told my model to pose in a certain way and wear certain things so that the design had looked professional. My aim when taking this picture was making my model look like a rap artist and at the same time project to people that he has a faith he believes in. For this picture I did not use or take any ideas from existing magazines, so the way the model is dressed was my ideas, as I thought what can sort of represent a teenager and at the same time appealing.

For this picture to make it more appealing to the teenage audience I had made my model to wear a hoodie, by doing this it sorts of gives a idea to the teenage audience that this person, is also someone who is in the “rap” community, and possibly gives the impression that the person is also a teenager. I had also made my model wear a bandana which had covered his face, the idea of this was to represent that the model used is in a gang and represent the colours of his gang through wearing a bandana. This was used because the teenager’s generally would have a bandana and wear it in a similar way, so by having this it sorts of connects to teenage reader’s. These were the only props I had used on my model for these pictures, the hoodie and the bandana; both materials were used because teenager’s use these materials’s nearly day to day, so when these props were used the idea was that it will appeal to teenage readers. However a convention that I had used was the pose of my model, the idea behind this pose was to show that although he does rap music he also believes in Christ.

This was the image I had looked at to take the idea from, the pose was taken from legend rap artist ‘Tupac’, so by having my model pose like that was from this design, also ‘Tupac’ was very famous so I had hoped that people would have remembered the pose as I wanted the pose to help make the magazine more appealing.