How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The particular social group I aimed my magazine at was mainstream, artistic. Someone who is quite simple and 'normal' in the public eye who also are into artistic ways of life from music, fashion to just being bold. The magazine is mainly targeted towards females although this is just because the people I used were female I think that if i used males it would make it more of a mixed gender magazine. It is for all cultures and races.
The image I chose to compare to one of my own had many similarities and some differences. They both are strong female artists who are well known by the public. I decided to go with an extreme close up to make the image stronger so the whole face was the only thing on show, whereas the other magazine has a close up including her neck, shoulders and her arm is even in there too. Even though they have done this her face still comes across very strong because of her make up and sunglasses. They are both bright from the lighting and the colours used. Both poses have a sort of attitude about them but not quite aggressive, they both have a slight seductive enticing the reader, but it is more of an artistic pose than sexual. They are both facing towards the left but my model is tilting her head down making her gaze more towards the reader whereas the other magazine, her head is tilted slightly upwards making her look quite proud. My model's hair is very relaxed and just pushed back at the top and hanging around her face. On the Face magazine her hair is relaxed but is up and out of the way giving her face and neck more of an outline.
My magazine would attract a wide rage of advertisers because I have such a variety of an audience. It has a pro-consumerist stance as the readers would be wanting to try lots of new things to find the 'real them' by buying the products that are promoted in my magazine.
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