1. QUESTION 2
How does your media product
represent particular social groups?

2. Gender
My magazine features all male characters within the music
features. As my cover page features a medium shot of a
male singer. My sub images are all of the said band and
devotion of my contents page and stories within the
magazine are to bands that are dominated by the male
gender. I chose to do this as the stereotypical indie band
are of male gender and I wanted to follow the conventions
of the normal bands that are more popular in the charts
today and seen to be successful. This matches up to my
audience in different ways as although more girls answered
my survey, girls enjoy and are more likely to listen to male
bands and invest in wanting to know about them than they
would into girl bands that aren’t seen to be that successful
in this genre. Personally I would say that males are most
likely to purchase music magazines of this genre as they are
likely to be aspiring to be the same as those featured
within the magazines. Males are therefore featured to be
more dominant and successful within my magazine but in a
way that females would also take interest in; for example
within the article the researcher asked about girlfriends of
the band which is things that females would want to know
and be interested in finding out about.

3. Age
My magazine represents males throughout my
magazine from an age of 17 to around 25, this matches
to the audience of my magazine. I chose to represent
this age throughout the magazine as I feel that this will
attract my audience to invest in the magazine as they
can relate to the age of the bands shown. I think that
my age range of people in my magazine is of this
because this is commonly the age range of indie rock
bands as they are quite a new thing to be making a
comeback so its important to show up and coming
bands within this magazine to make it different from
others. My magazine supports the stereotypes that this
age range are very into festivals as the bands that I have
represented are touring and going to various festivals
and enjoy to party and host gigs. This I believe is a good
thing as my audience is of the same age so they will be
going to festivals and enjoying this type of music
through going to see them live as this genre of music
will be most pleasing when seeing them live. I like the
way that I have represented this social group of age
within the issue as I feel that all of it slots together
perfectly within each story and the images featured as
they are all in a gig setting.

4. Class within the magazine
My magazine I feel is focused on working class as I feel that this class would have more access to
instruments and be more likely to take an interest of music through their education and opportunities.
Having the tools to pursue it and having the resources to get started will fuel them to purchase a magazine
of this sort. Also as this is not a budget magazine selling at £2.50 so this would probably appeal more to the
working class market as they would more likely want to spend money on the magazine with the
competitions featured inside this could appeal to the class of the audience buying the magazine more
which is what my audience would most likely be as they would be students and studying with university
fees. This class are most likely to go to gigs which is a feature which is shown quite a lot with the bands used
within the magazine is that they are live bands that tour which is what people will enjoy and most like
about the bands is their ability to perform to an audience. Most of the bands featured in the magazine will
be from a working class background giving them the ambition to do something different and something
that can improve their lives forever. Working class people seem to have more determination to succeed.

5. Ethnicity
The ethnic minority featured in my magazine
mostly is white British males as this is an English
magazine and mostly indie rock bands are of a
white origin with the exception of some of mixed
race. I involved this ethnic group in my magazine
purely by chance of who is successful and a new
up coming artist which is what I want to feature
mostly in the magazine. I do not believe this
represents my audience as Great Britain as a whole
is a mixed race society so it could be anyone who
takes an interest in this magazine and its genre as
its growing in popularity very fast in the past year
so it would be a diverse audience. There are only
positive representations of ethnic groups inside my
magazine as I would want my audience to be
diverse and everyone to be interested in my
magazine and what it has to offer. I would go on to
include many ethnicities into my magazine so that I
can get the age range of my audience to as many
people as possible to broaden my magazines
expectations in the future of the many artists that
can be included.