How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The social groups that I want to attract are teenagers and young adults. The audience that my production is targeted at would be working class and perhaps the middle class. I think this because teenagers and students would not necessarily have a big income and students are portrayed as being frugal.

I have represented class within my production through the front cover. The person on my front cover can be seen as working class because of the casual choice of clothes as well as the genre of music this person is associated with. The girl is wearing a hooded sweatshirt that is associated with hip hop and you would not see an upper class person wearing this. The way she is dressed and presented challenges the stereotype that middle class are well presented however. If it was a magazine exclusively for middle and upper class it would probably be something like a classical music magazine. I think this because you do not expect wealthy people listening to mainstream music or genres like hip hop. You can also see the potential target audience through the style of the double page spread. In the photo the girl has her hood up which again stresses the working class stereotype with teenagers and young people in general wearing hoodies.

The age of the people who would view or buy my product would be ages 16-24. The person on the front cover and double page spread is a similar age, the girl is portrayed as being at least 20. Because of this she is more likely to reach out to the audience as you relate to people closest to your age rather than much older or much younger people. My product supports the stereotype that young people are rebellious and like to risk things to get the ideal outcome. As well as the idea they like to party and have fun.