How does your media product represent particular social groups?
- my media product is aimed at male and female teenagers primarily around the age of 13- late 20s, since it is a hip hop genre based magazine, it would be appropriate and reasonable to aim for the same target audience as the hip hop genre. usually its middle-class people or lower class citizens who listen to Hip Hop music, so i started from there.
- the societal view of teenagers varies at times. teenagers are quite often seen as wild, disobedient and totally lax about everything, I believe this socio economic group are called hedonists. overall they are seen as careless and only want to have fun and a good time. however, there are juveniles who are hard-working, serious about life and determined. I tried to portray the teenagers in my magazine as the latter. the expressions on their faces are meant to indicate that they are hard-working, serious and determined to reach their pinnacles
- Also teenagers attire is another thing that can be viewed stereotypically. Generally, they wear hoodies and hats. I tried to convey this through some of my photos. Another aspect, teenagers are commonly associated with is sport. I took a photo of a friend with his skateboard to reflect the sport and active theme that teenagers can relate to.
my representation of them
- I represented the image teenagers in a much more mature perspective. typically teenagers are seen always lax and disobedient. I represented them as serious people. the males in my magazine are wearing white tees some of their body muscles are showing, this helps portray that they athletic or power hungry. i did this by showing their physicality I used the photos of people who are within the same age range as my target audience as it wouldn't make sense to place images for example of someone in their late 50s in a teenage orientated magazine .This allows the audience to relate to those people in the magazine making it more captivating
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