How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I believe that my magazine has represented my social group well as for my research task, I have looked into what my target audience likes and tried to imply that onto my magazine. My magazine is aimed towards teenagers and young adults who listen to Grime or Dance type of music and represent the fashion that comes with it. For my magazine I have took the inspirations from artists like AJ Tracey and Drake who are big in the grime industry. I have looked into the pictures they add on their social media and tried to get my models to follow up and pose like them. I wanted to re-create their image to make my magazine as realistic as I can and also to make it appeal-able to my target audience. As the end product, I believe my pictures came out looking professional yet suitable for my target audience. I have not looked into deeply into groups in our society but if I did, I would look into some artists fan bases and look at the type of fans they have and what images they present. By this, I wanted to make my magazine desirable to people who like to listen to Grime or Dance and who are often out seeing their favourite artists on tour.
As my target audience is teenagers and young adults, I decided to use social media as part of my magazine to attract a wider target audience. As most of my target audience have smartphones, they normally check their social media accounts frequently. Therefore I could advertise my magazine on social media and include the logos of the social media the magazine will have accounts on in my magazine so the readers are aware of it. Therefore on my contents page I have included the logos of the 4 main social media accounts my target audience would be using ( Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat , Facebook) so they can give it a follow for the magazine updates instead of buying a paper copy, they would be able to purchase an online version. This is because from my research I have found out, people would be more interested in a copy which is available straight away rather than going to a shop to buy it. By doing this, I will be able to attract more people globally with lower costs.
The clothing my models wore could also like it with how my magazine fits in with social groups. I have tried to use clothing which my target would wear on a day to day basis in order to allow them to feel like they are the same as the models and can relate to them easily. I have also used a 'Dreamville' jumper as one of my costumes. This jumper was made by the rapper J-Cole as part of his merchandise therefore it would relate to my genre that my magazine is about. I have used clothing that my target audience could wear instead of clothes who older people would wear so the younger audience can relate to it.
Overall I agree that my final product matches my target group well as I have researched their social economic group before in my research task and kept that in mind while creating my final product. I have considered the clothing and the use of social media in my final piece to iterest and fit into my target audience.
