1. How does your media product
represent particular social groups?
2. In my media product young people have been represented in the
use of language I have chosen:
No adjectives used to get straight to
the point, meeting the needs of the
target audience
A lot has changed since David McCaffrey first began singing, Using
and today I have come to the city of York to visit David in the casual
place where it all began. His new album Stars has been a major language to
appeal to
The word success since it's release earlier this month, giving his career a
the younger
“kick-start” is huge kick-start. And here at Indisputable we have managed generations
associated to score the first interview with David to find out more about it.
with a lot of
energy, and
would appeal Using sporting
to young terms to
generations appeal to the
sport loving
males
3. In my media product both males and females have been
represented in the use of colours I have chosen, as well as this some
of the colours have been chosen to fit in with the types of people
that read Indie music magazines:
The purple I have chosen, I chose to use black as one of
although slightly more female the main colours in my colour
oriented, is a shade that scheme as it is commonly used
would appeal to both genders. in Indie music magazines as a
base colour.
The off-white colour I have used is a good
gender neutral colour, keeping to the
target audience of both males and
females.
4. Class and Ethnicity
By using the rough edges on the boxes it appeals to
my middle class target audience, who like the rough
and ready look, and have pride in being from poorer,
laborious backgrounds.
My magazine represents the typical Caucasian,
teenage, Indie genre by using photographs of white,
Indie people. Although the genre does not only appeal
to white people, the area I live in (York), has very few
ethnic minorities, making it harder for me to include
photographs of Indie teenagers of all ethnic
backgrounds.
e.g. bands like Rizzle Kicks