Q2

  How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Above is the magazine cover I have chosen for my final product and also a cover from the magazine ‘NME’. I have chosen to compare my magazine to the cover of ‘NME’ with ‘Lily Allen’ on it as I think they both represent a similar type of social group. I think that the image on my cover is similar to the one on ‘NME’ as they are both close up mid shots of a female who is from a younger generation, this would attract the social group of females ages from 15-21 as people older than this would not want to read a magazine where the main article is about someone from a very different generation to them. Also in both covers the models are both wearing shirts ‘Lily Allen’ is wearing a checked shirt on ‘NME’ and on my cover Hannah is wearing a denim shirt. Both of the models faces are looking directly at the reader attracting them in to the magazine, although the models poses are different as Hannah is standing straight up with her mouth shut in quite a serious pose which could make the reader wonder why she is so serious, what has happened to her to make her feel like that; whereas ‘Lily Allen’ has her back hunched over and her mouth slightly open this pose makes her look quite vulnerable but since her mouth is open it may make the reader think that she is willing to tell all what has happened to her.  Also next to each of the models there is a quote from their interview in the magazine, on my cover the quote is “If I didn’t quit my rock lifestyle I wouldn’t be here today” and on the ‘NME’ cover the quote it “I can’t keep on living like this, it’s doing my head in”, both of these quotes leaves the reader questioning and wondering what has happened to make the model feel like that and the want to buy the magazine and read the article to find out what has happened. Both magazines have an ‘indie-rock’ social group behind them due to all the conventions of the type of clothes they are wearing such as denim and checked shirts, the quotes which show that they have or have had a hard rock lifestyle and have quit or have to quit it.