How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The image for my front cover was used to test the convention of artists on front covers, I challenged this convention as I didn’t want to follow the stereotypical views of artists smoking and wasting money on chains.
I followed the convention of this specific Vibe cover, it doesn’t contain any illegal substances such as drugs, no gold chains are included or a large sum of money. T.I is portrayed in a positive way, this shows how artists differ, in modern days we are seeing more positive attitudes towards underground and urban culture. I chose to do this as my demographic audience are not fans of negative views. However I still followed the convention of certain iconography such as casual clothing, this is to reflect the urban genre which my magazine concentrates on. My front cover does not break the whole hip hop music magazine convention . The posture and hand sign to go with the iconography clothing are followed conventions. The colour scheme also relates to my audience, the grey urban landscape is used throughout my magazine.
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My double page spread was inspired by hip hop magazine such as vibe and XXL as they distribute in this form.
The picture for my double page spread does not follow conventions of artists again smoking, drinking or showing off money, instead I portrayed an artists for who they are. It’s the talent that makes people want to read and not products, I chose to go against how artists are represented in the media, the negative views are exaggerated then globalised , not every artists commits crime, gets tattoos and spends a large amount of money on alcohol, no-one is concentrating on the positive views. The only iconography in this picture is the t-shirt with written text, this is used in modern urban culture to advertise their music. I used this to relate back to my urban fans and to relate to the genre.
Negative Media views on artists.
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