How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
The demographics table below represents the working and demographic classes of the citizens of Great Britain.
The classes highlighted in Yellow are the classes I believe my magazine is aimed at. I think my magazine represents particular social groups in the use of images on my Front Cover, Contents Page, and Double Page Spread.
By using a black model I have represented a large group of people who listen to R&B. R&B historically roots from black Americans, and the majority of R&B artists are black Americans. I have used this to represent the social group of the typical R&B singer.
I have set a price of £3.00 for my magazine, it is a monthly edition and features around 120 pages every time. I have set this price to represent the particular social group of students and graduates who are the audience of my magazine since my magazine is aimed at the younger generation, between 14 and 25.
The sell lines I have used represent particular social groups, this is because artists such as Drake and Beyonce are very popular with young people now as they have just played British arena tours and both recently released number 1 albums. Therefore this represents the social group of the target audience as they will want to read about the people they listen too.
On my contents page I included social media links for Twitter and Facebook, this is because these sites are becoming more popular than ever before and it gives a platform for my magazine to interact with readers. The best thing about these sites are that they are free! This means that the readers who may be on no or very tight income are able to interact without having to pay any more money. The use of Twitter would be very different to Facebook as they both work in very different ways. Twitter allows concise 140 character tweets, where as Facebook allows as many characters as you want in a post. This gives a variance and a choice to my audience.
I have allowed readers to subscribe, this represents the social group as they will save money by setting up a yearly subscription, this represents the social group as again money can be hard to come by for students and the younger people in employment, so by offering a discount it shows that the magazine really does understand the needs and wants of its audience.
I have offered a digital subscription service too, this furthermore represents the particular social groups that my readers fit in as many young individuals have iPhones or iPads and by offering the service digitally it gives a more convenient approach to reading a magazine.
I have set a price of £3.00 for my magazine, it is a monthly edition and features around 120 pages every time. I have set this price to represent the particular social group of students and graduates who are the audience of my magazine since my magazine is aimed at the younger generation, between 14 and 25.
The sell lines I have used represent particular social groups, this is because artists such as Drake and Beyonce are very popular with young people now as they have just played British arena tours and both recently released number 1 albums. Therefore this represents the social group of the target audience as they will want to read about the people they listen too.
I have allowed readers to subscribe, this represents the social group as they will save money by setting up a yearly subscription, this represents the social group as again money can be hard to come by for students and the younger people in employment, so by offering a discount it shows that the magazine really does understand the needs and wants of its audience.
I have offered a digital subscription service too, this furthermore represents the particular social groups that my readers fit in as many young individuals have iPhones or iPads and by offering the service digitally it gives a more convenient approach to reading a magazine.
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