Evaluation 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Since I was making a magazine for sixthform students, I aimed to target my audience by using information which only relates to them. My magazine is a unisex, I didn’t want to do separate magazines as I wouldn’t be able to do a whole magazine on females due to me not knowing what they would like to read within a magazine, doing a unisex magazine means I could cover both genders and cover information on what both genders need to be aware of, I planned to do this using Images and information, since we go to state school (Academy) most students who go here are either working class or middle class so within the magazine I wouldn’t cover anything that didn’t relate to them. My magazine doesn’t cover any racial articles as I did not want to offend anyone and within a magazine, not many people would want to read anything about religion in the survey I carried out for my sixthform magazine. The social groups which are represented in my magazine are both year 12 and 13’s, it includes different topics which cause a problem for the year groups. The most important being dress code, Most of sixthforms professions are students, some have jobs and for this reason my feature article was about fashion as fashion relates to everything (both genders can read the magazine, working students can read the article and education students can read the article). Fashion has many definitions and everyone sees fashion in different ways.My feature article agrees with the representation that dress code is an important factor which affects most students.

This also challenges the way young people from the ages of 16 to 18 are represented in the media because, this age groups is seen as under dressed, not looking smart and being trashy, the way students dress is put into negative ways which society believe affect our behaviour. There is a stereotype that most students wear hoodies and stand in street corners after school, and females where really small skirts and show more skin. People cross the road when they see a bunch of students just because of the way they’re dressed. So to have a positive affect on students I decided to challenge these conventions which society has placed upon this social group.