Evaluation: Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In the above video you will see Eminem wearing a hooded top and t-shirt, the mise en scene from this video matches the same from my music magazine. I have used just a black t-shirt on the front cover and hooded tops on both my contents page and double page spread.

After reading several articles from rap magazines there is no particular colloquial language that I could identify, that particularly reflect the audience that rap magazines have. I have used colloquial language in my article for the double page spread, this is because I needed to use terms that were relevant to the audience and terms that they would will understand. I have a blog post on my double page spread article which is proof of my use of colloquial language. The only other use of colloquial language is the quotations on my front cover.


The social group of the genre is rebellious people, there is no specific age group but people who like to rebel to what is going on in society. This is why they enjoy the genre because rappers are very controversial and will say anything in their songs. The group enjoy the arrogance of the artists and dress the same way as the artists (i.e hooded tops, t-shirts etc.) so I needed to show how my magazine can relate to the social group of the genre.

My artists are all dressed the same way as the artists on other magazines, my front cover artist is wearing a t-shirt and both my double page spread and contents page artists are wearing hooded tops. This is so that the magazine embraces the social group. I have also presented the artists on my magazine in the same way as the other rap artists, with either an arrogant or blank expression on their face. This is used across the genre and because this is the way that the artists are stereo typically portrayed.

My headline on my magazine front cover KC Purta "No one saw me coming" represents the social group because my questionnaire revealed that the audience want new artists. So I have created this artist for the purpose of my music magazine, also using an artists name followed by a quote is a recurring theme in rap magazines. As it is used for the headline in most of the magazines. As you can see on this magazine where the headline is Kanye West "I am rap".