Question 2)

How does the Media Product represent a particular social group?

My media product is a magazine, it represents a particular social group by focusing on a specific demographic and psychographic profile which relates to all the members of the magazines audience and also ties in with my interests, so while looking at and assessing magazines online such as "NME", "Q" and "Indie Magazine", "indie magazine" isn't a music magazine, but it is focused on the specific genre that i was aiming towards "indie" so as I came to the realisation that i enjoyed the structure and apparel of the "Indie Magazine" magazine so i copied the layout and structure for the cover and some of the photograph designs for the contents page, so as i was intrigued by the publications of "indie magazine" i researched their target audience which is relatively the same as my age group i was working towards, 15-24, and felt this was a relatively suitable magazine to learn from.

I found many pictures online, and i found a particular photo from "NME" which i felt that i could copy, it was actually really simple, pale background with dark, harsh colours standing out to the readers to signify who's actually on the cover. so I copied this layout but posted it with sell lines and more information of the contents inside the magazine, unlike NME due to the fact that they have changed their distribution model.

Within the contents page, i copied "QMagazine" with their layout, and i feel that this is suitable for the audience to engage with due to the fact that they too target a younger audience, so i felt that if i used their layout it would help publicise my contents page towards the specified target group, this also allowed for the target audience to be involved and can even make their own fanzines based off of the information used.