2. How does my media product represent particular social groups?


My music magazine has been constructed to not offend any social groups or compliment any, my main focus was to make sure that my artist was dressed and presented as if he were in a band, dressed in casual clothes, and wearing what a typical indie artist would wear. The audience that my magazine is trying to attract are people aged from around 16 to 25, who like indie music and/or house music. People of this age tend to be offended less easily and generally tend to have very open minds, which allows my magazine to include the model that I used who is dressed in a certain way and is being portrayed in a certain way in the interview. An older generation perhaps might find this boring or offensive as they would probably like to see an older figure on the front cover or being interviewed, but as they are not my target audience I am not fussed about what that certain social group think about my magazine. My model has been dressed in clothes that are quite fashionable and smart, which my target audience would probably want to look like, so having a model on my front cover who is posing as a famous musician on the front cover of my magazine who is dressed in the same clothes as they would like to wear will help to target the right audience for my magazine. It will help that the way my model looks is a good representation of what a lot of indie artists look like nowadays, and fans of this genre will notice that my model looks like this and will be more attracted to my magazine because of it. For example one real life indie singer has been photographed below wearing clothes very similar to those of my model, which is a good link between my model and the genre of indie music;

                                          My Model                       Scouting For Girls (real life band)

3. What kind of media institution might distribute my music magazine and why?

There are companies that choose to buy certain music magazine brands and publish and distribute them around the country. This is the kind of company that I would need to see my magazine and buy the brand so that they could then distribute it around the country. For example, there is one website called MagazineSubscription.co.uk who give up and coming magazines a chance to be published by them and offer your magazine on their website for a price to customers. They promise that they have over 5000 subscribers on their website, which would give a good chance for my magazine’s target audience to find out about and subscribe for my magazine.



Another organisation that may choose to distribute my magazine would be the publishers of ‘Q’ magazine, BAUER. As my magazine would have a similar but not quite the same target audience to Q, this media institution would be able to guarantee that my magazine reaches my target audience as they would know how to reach the right kinds of. Also, as my magazine isn’t too specialist, it may be able to attract a few different types of people who it wasn’t even trying to target. Also, BAUER may actually want to publish my magazine and start distributing it in the same places as their other magazines such as ‘Q’ as they both are targeted at different audiences so my magazine shouldn’t in any way distract the target audience of Q and make them want to buy magazine instead, which would just increase profits and dominance in the market for BAUER.