How does your media product represent particular social

groups

Question 2

Who have you included in your work? How have you posed/dressed them?

SILLY/FUNPRETTY/GIRLY CONFIDENT/FIERCE

• Hair in a pony tail shows a youthful and girly side. Also highlights her face and therefore her pose more.

• Fur shows a rich, sophisticated and glamorous side. This is because fur has the connotation of being worn by people who are more wealthy as is generally more expensive.

• Flowery blouse also shows a girly side as flowers have the connotation of being for girls and are “pretty”.

What does your mise-en-scene communicate about the people (social

group) represented? • As you can see by the examples given most pop

magazine don’t concentrate on the mise-en-scene and instead add content in to fill the space.

• All three of the front cover, contents page and double page spread have a blank back ground with text, shapes and pictures added in over the top.

• For my magazine I copied this structure to make my pop magazine look as authentic as possible.

• I photographed all my photography against a white background and then added in content next to it.

• No mise-en-scene is used because the target audience is normally young girls and by making the background simple will help focus their attention on the content.

How does your product represent its target audience?

Have you done anything different to other representations from within your magazine’s genre?

• My target audience is young to teenage “girly” girls.• This is represented in my design work by the use of the color pink.• Pink has the connotation of being a girl associated color. • Using pink will attract my target audience because stereotypically is

there favorite color. • Bold and bubbly text was used to make the magazine more clear and

fun to read. • Young people are proven to have shorter attention spans so by making

the font bubbly will help them find the text more enjoyable to read. • In my contents page I have added in a picture of pink lips to again

reinforce the idea of my target audience being feminine girls.

• I have kept my pop magazine more traditional by sticking to the rules and regulations.• I done this because if I challenged the dominant ideologies facing pop magazines then it

may blur the genre of the magazine and then the target audience wouldn’t be as interested.

• Although I have used the color blue a lot which goes against being “girly” it is a pale blue and does appeal to girls. Also if I didn’t bend the rules my magazine would like flat with only one color on it.

Does the representation you offer challenge or support dominant ideologies about your social group?

The dominant ideologies about pop magazines are:• That it is filled with bright feminine colors such as blues, purples,

pinks. • Include pictures of attractive celebrities on the front page. • The use of appropriate cover lines for my target audience such as

about romance, makeup, clothes etc.

Throughout constructing my magazine I have used all and even more of these dominant ideologies so yes I have kept the stereotypes of what is to be expected in a pop magazine going.

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