Evaluation question 2

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My music magazine is made to target both female and male teenage audience who listen to British rap. I made this obvious through the images I used in my music magazine. The image I used in the front cover clearly represents a rapper and because the selling line says “U.K’s n.o.1 music magazine” it shows that it is about British music. My model I used for my front cover represents a particular social group in many different ways.

One way the image of the model represents a particular social group is by his clothing. The model is wearing a black bomber Nike jacket which is a very common winter jacket that teenagers from the U.K rap community wear and also it makes you look bigger so you look tougher; a chunky silver ring and two diamond ear rings which suggest that he’s wealthy; black sun glasses to make him look more gangster and cool and finally a designer scarf again to show wealth. This look is closely associated with gangsters and also famous American rappers such as Gucci mane who dresses very similar.

Out of all the clothing on my model I think that the Nike bomber jacket represents the music genre and the social group of my magazine, because people who listen U.K rap or even American rap have a very similar style and people who wear this sort of clothing are stereotyped as a ‘gangster’ or is gang affiliated.