How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 2
My media product, represents particular social groups through costume, setting and layout.

COSTUME: 

In my magazine, I allowed my model to dress himself. This shows that he was in a comfortable environment. As my target audience, are 18 year olds to middle aged adults, the clothing was suitable for both the audience and the genre. In the double page spread, my model was dressed in black as the colour contrasts sinfulness, rebelliousness and dramatic characteristics to represent youthfulness and seriousness which I aimed to represent for the older readers. Whereas, on the front cover, he was wearing a denim jacket with a white t-shirt. The white symbolises the innocence and shyness of the artist, which reflects his personality "off-stage". The colour black, is not seen as a norm for a music magazine cover, therefore illustrating that I have broken convention in order for my magazine to be unique and stand out from all other magazines.

SETTING:

On the double page spread of my magazine, originally I captured a staircase at night time (as the background) to represent the late hours youths and young adults are mostly out. It would represent a calm environment that young adults are comfortable in. My double page spread, would have indicated that not every young person should be categorised as incapable of achieving something in particular, but that they can do anything they put their minds to and still be creative and youthful. However, I decided not to stick to my original ideas as I wanted the background to make the audience feel more welcome, hence why I used a picture of the featured artist "performing". The front cover represents particular social groups such as my target audience, as they are all young adults. As the front cover is an image of the artist taking a selfie, it represents the audience as it is a common thing that many young people do. 

LAYOUT:

My layout of my magazine represents different social groups as fearless, open and outgoing. The front cover portrays an "open" social group as due to the shyness of the artist on the front cover, despite how he his portraying himself, he sill allows the audience to see him like that. The model, offers a direct mode of address, which allows the audience/readers to feel comfortable and welcome. It also makes them feel as if they are being challenged. 

On the front cover of my magazine, the price is shown at £2.95 which is £1.00 less than the average Blues & Soul magazine price. This is because, as my audience is targeted to be 18 and above, they would be able afford this magazine due to incomes from education, work or even benefits even if the magazine was £3.95. However, I feel that the price of a magazine should not be over £3.00.