Sophie Russell-Jeffrey AS Media CW

How does your media product represent particular social groups? My media product represents the younger youth to be a determined hard working generation, this representation is presented through the use of text on the front cover and within the article located on the double page spread, this text implies that the two models in the photographs are part of a duo band and have been trying to get established for a very long time and believe that they are finally starting to succeed after a long challenging journey, “Harolds return to the duo has resulted in our determination for success”. In addition to text, i believe that the facial expressions of the young models are very serious and intense, this is due to the direct mode of address with the audience, these facial expressions suggest a sense of fearlessness and they appear very intimidating. furthermore, the expressions portray focus because of the wide eye stare, this also suggests determination as they are looking forward.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? There are many elements to my product that convey generic conventions of existing music magazines, in order to make my product authentic i researched current magazines such as ‘Q Magazine’ and many others to pick out reoccurring features.  Firstly i believe that my product fits the conventions of music magazine and i have achieved a realistic product, one of the ways i have done this is by including consistent branding throughout. I have branded my product by using the masthead on the contents page and on the double page spreads, this keeps consistency and makes a clear connection between the cover, contents page and double page spread. In addition to using the mast head to brand my product i have also used a colour scheme to create another visual link between the three separate pages, this is very conventional of magazines to choose three colours and present these ...