Media presentation of representations

Media presentation of representations

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  HOW DOES YOURMEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS? E.G. SEX, RACE AND RELIGION…
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  My magazine wasmade for a target audience of teenage girls between the ages of 16-21. I used an image of a female model for the front cover as I wanted the female audience to be able to relate to the girl. I didn’t make the model pose seductively or pose in little I have used a girl the clothes, she is laughing and carefree to entice same age and sex as the a female audience to be interested and want to target audience for my read. The feminine colours also make the model to connect with magazine very gender oriented to women them. As she has a girly which is what I wanted. This is not the look she seems like a stereotypical way a women would be stereotypical pop star. represented in a media product, they usually look very made up, glamorous and enticing for men, the way a women ‘should be’ I have also represented. On the front cover there’s a list of advertised the artists who’s albums we are promoting which fashion pages on the shows the audience that the magazine is about front cover as I pop/chart music. The artists are people such know this is as Justin Bieber, Adele and Rihanna who are something my all appealing to a female, teenage audience target audience who I aimed the magazine at. I have changed would be interested the fonts on the front pages to interest the in. reader a bit more and make the magazine look more exciting. I have used informal language as teenagers are less likely to read and be interested if the writing is formal.
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  I didn't makethe magazine appropriate for a certain type of race, I made it for all teenage girls to enjoy by putting artists they would like to hear about in the magazine and making fashion pages. I made the magazine for an audience of 16-21 year olds, I used girly colours, pretty fonts and music and artists that girls would find more interesting than males. The magazine has a pop/chart music base. I didn't give it a very expensive price so that families of every class could afford it, we priced it at £3.99 a month. The lighting in the picture I used for my front cover is bright so that the audience will know that the story is happy and uplifting. There is no background to the image so that the whole focus is on the model, who looks relaxed but confident, enjoying herself, she looks casual like a middle class, teenage girl in everyday life. The shot is full length as she is kneeling and I wanted her whole body in the picture. The model is wearing casual, everyday clothes because the article is casual and she fits in with the lay out of the magazine as it is all laid back.
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  The denotations ofthis contents page are that it is a list of features the magazine has with two relevant images. The connotations of the page are that when the reader sees it’s a contents page they will I used a high expect to see a well set out page of stories angled shot for the the magazine covers. There are also two representation images on this page, they are both female of a nervous models but they not stereotypical female girl as she looks like representations, models usually pose everyone is showing off their bodies and looks but I above her and made these images about the girls and she’s under the spotlight, their music. The second image is a close she is also up of the model laughing to symbolise a biting her lip happy, upbeat article. In the first image in the image which makes the model is holding a guitar and looking her look away from the camera so that the anxious. complete focus of the image isn’t on her, the music has a main part in the image as well.
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  The colours andfonts I used on the contents page were to appeal to a feminine audience as that’s what my target was. The language on the contents page is again informal as there has to be a lot of writing on it, the only way to get teenage audiences to be interested and keep reading is to talk about what they like in a way they understand. In the first image on my contents page we used a nature background so the image looked fresh and natural, the model is again wearing casual clothing because the focus of the image is her and her guitar. In the second image, it is a close up image and the background is plain so nothing distracts the audience from the model. She is wearing outdoor clothing . These images will appeal to teenage girls, middle class, who enjoys pop or chart music, gossip, in college or later years of school as they can relate to these girls who are represented as middle class, casual, relaxed, confident girls.
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  My DPS hasall the usual codes of a music magazine DPS as it has an image, a house colour, the lead and a drop capital. The bright colours and the model smiling in the picture symbolise a happy article. The colours and model also represent the genre of pop/chart music. I have used one imaged that takes over half the page as teenagers are more likely to be interested in images rather than the text. I have also used pull quotes to break up the text. I have changed the font for individual texts to keep the page exciting. The pink and red colours will also appeal to the younger audience which is what was intended. For my DPS I used the house colour of red and baby pink, colours like this are traditional for a pop/chart music magazine. I have used a lot of quotes from the model in my text such as ‘it would change mine and my mothers life’ which would also be emotive and understandable to an audience of the same age, gender and class as the girl.
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  The model inthe image is wearing casual clothing. She is holding her guitar to focus the image on her music. The model is smiling and happy which will appeal more to a female audience as she is not posing or pouting to get the attraction of men, she is also wearing clothes that represent her in a non sexual way which is not stereotypical of women as that is a way to get a male audience The shot is a mid-shot and the movement of her hands draw the audiences attention to the guitar.