Main Task: Evaluation Q2

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My music magazine focuses mainly on teens and young adults with an interest in Dubstep, aged between 15 and 33. My magazine is also focused on young adults who have an interest in genres such as Drum and Base, Indie Rock, Garage, and electronic, as these genres are closely related to Dubstep in many ways. This allows readers who have an interest in those other genres to relate to my magazine.

Despite this, looking through my magazine it seems that I have managed to target a narrow audience: a younger male audience, because the subjects I have used throughout the whole of magazine are young and male. I feel that although it seems this way, my magazine will still attract the attention of older people up to the age of 33 or 35 and also females, because many electronic artists are young and most are male, so this won’t restrict the capabilities of gaining a large audience ranged between different ages and sexes. I have constructed the magazine so that it doesn’t target a single religion or culture, as there is a large amount of diversity in cultures religions and communities when it comes to dub step and drum & base. I feel that in most genres the artists dress extravagantly in flashy and expensive clothing, where as in dub step and drum & base they dress in simple yet eye catching clothing. Bearing this in mind the subject on my front cover is dressed simply so that he represents this, giving the magazine a sense of reality and making it easier for the readers to relate, as many do not have large paying jobs to buy expensive clothing.