Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups

The social classes are being represented in the magazine by the images or in the article; is hard to determine due to no stereotypes of any class being included. For instance the images show the clothing of the band, clothing other than dialect is used as a way of identifying a person’s social group. The band are wearing regular clothes as apposed to sports clothing stereotypically associated with lower class social groups or high end designer clothes associated with the middle. However they do appear well turned out, happy

and healthy indicating that they are not lower class. The music genre of the band’s music, which is indie rock, can be identified by their clothing due to the style.

In every image of the magazine there are young adults. Stereotypically young adults and teenagers are associated with being energetic and loud. If I wanted to present the band members in the images as stereotypical young adults I would have used the conventions and layouts similar to Kerrang magazine which uses bright colours and pages with a busy appearance. Instead I have used a more formal approach with more straight lines and continuing the use of dark red. The images and article do not give a negative representation of the subjects they only show their characters.

The images used are mostly of female artists. The band Doctor Doctor is an all female indie rock band which goes against the stereotype of women not being associated with rock. No gender is represented negatively due a mixture of male and female artist in the magazine listed on the contents page therefore not associating the magazine with one gender.