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How does media products represent par1cular social groups?

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Page 1: How does media products represent particular social groups

How  does  media  products  represent  par1cular  social  groups?  

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My  typical  reader  

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I  used  a  woman  for  the  main  ar1cle  as  I  thought  that  it  may  a:ract  more  of  an  audience.  The  male  gaze  theory  is  telling  us  that  by  using  women  in  a  magazine  specifically  designed  for  men  that  it  will  a:ract  them  to  buy  it  more.  The  male  gaze  is  used  in  many  magazines  such  as  Q  and  rolling  stones  to  a:ract  their  target  audience  and  that  is  why  I  will  be  using  it  because  my  target  audience  is  men.  I  also  think  that  using  a  woman  on  the  front  cover  would  a:ract  the  small  percentage  of  women  who  would  be  interested  in  reading  the  magazine  because  it  gives  them  someone  to  look  up  to.      

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Another  thing  is  the  language  I  have  used  shows  the  representa1on  and  stereotypes  theory  because  I  have  used  language  throughout  the  magazine,  mostly  in  the  double  page  spread,  that  an  older  audience  would  be  ale  to  understand  appose  to  using  slang  or  jargon  specified  for  a  younger  audience.  This  is  really  important  because  if  my  audience  doesn’t  understand  or  like  the  language  I  am  using  then  they  would  not  want  to  buy  or  read  the  magazine.  For  example  the  language  they  use  in  a  magazine  with  the  target  audience  of  10  year  old  girls  is  going  to  be  simple  and  happy  because  of  their  age,  however  my  target  audience  is  older  than  that  meaning  the  would  want  to  read  something  a  bit  more  formal  and  sophis1cated.    

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The  colours  that  I  have  chosen  to  use  are  very  natural  colours  such  as  blues  and  browns,  this  is  because  they  are  very  male  colours  and  also  they  are  the  colours  I  most  think  of  when  thinking  of  folk  music  because  the  genre  of  music  to  e  is  very  natural  as  well,  that  is  why  I  have  chosen  to  use  them  in  my  magazine.  I  also  figured  that  if  my  audience  like  folk  music  which  they  obviously  would  otherwise  they  wouldn’t  buy  the  magazine  then  they  would  also  like  the  colours  I  have  used.    

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I  have  thought  about  what  my  target  audiences  hobbies  and  interest  would  be  and  used  them  in  the  magazine  to  a:ract  them  more.  For  example  I  think  that  my  target  reader  would  play  an  instrument  so  I  have  made  the  person  who  the  ar1cle  is  about  hold  a  guitar  to  show  they  have  something  in  common.  I  also  think  that  my  target  audience  would  love  to  be  outdoors  and  is  a  very  outdoors  sort  of  character,  I  have  taken  what  I  think  they  are  like  in  this  sense  and  taken  some  of  the  photographs  that  I  have  used  in  my  magazine  outside  in  woodland  or  in  fields  and  I  think  this  will  a:ract  the  audience  because  again  they  would  have  something  in  common.