Monday, 5 April 2010

2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?



Above to the left is an image i took for my magazine (the front cover) and to the right is a cover of the magazine 'Time' featuring The Dixie Chicks, also shown by the anchorage text 'Radical Chicks'. The models in both images are looking directly at the camera in quite a serious manner; which immediately attracts viewers attention as it draws them in. The models are also all connected - touching in some way to show that they are in a group together, that they mean something to one another. This attitude fits my magazines country genre, as it is all about close groups and family. Both magazines have a plain coloured background; one blue and one black. This shows that all the attention is fixed on the people, with nothing to detract from them.
My target audience is women in their early twenties and the models in both images are young nearing that age which immediately attracts the target viewers - people are always interested in those of a similar age range to them. The models have a clothes colour scheme in both images - the real dixie chicks are all in black whilst my models are in the flag colours with hints of black as well. They are all clothes that my target market group would wear - in fashion but still unique to them. All of the girls are wearing similar dark eye-make-up but not a huge amount of anything else; which is the trend among the target viewers.
Both images have a feel of togetherness, of being quite a tight-nit group which is what I the target audience have alot with their friends/family.

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