Evaluation2 - How does your media

product represent particular social groups?

As my magazine is based around the whole Britpop/Madchester genre of music, I need to get

the representations of my social groups right.RepresentationsThere are various ways of getting to the right social groups that I am after:

• Through the use of language - I used slang and more informal terms in order to be able to reach an audience who I knew would understand what was being said.

• I knew that my main audience was Male Teenagers & Young Adults, so I represented them through colours, images and articles.

• The colours I used were quite dark and gritty, but also there were hints of brighter colours, particularly red, white & blue - the magazine being BRITpop and aimed at BRITISH artists.

• There is hardly any women featured in the magazine - showing the audience is mainly males, as not many women would buy a magazine like this.

The articled I created has represented the teens/young adults as a ‘misunderstood’ group of people, often stereotyped as being anti-social.