Evaluation Q2

 My media product represents the youth as it is aimed at a teenage audience and it covers articles on younger musicians. It represents the youth as quite positive and challenges the stereotype that the youth of today is seemingly all doom and gloom and that there are teens out there putting there minds to good use. I have done this by focusing the magazine on younger artists and showing that a lot of the youth are being inspired by music and focusing energy into doing something positive for society. I have chosen to show this social group in this way to purposely challenge the stereotype, also the youth are my intended audience so this representation of them will make the youth more inclined to buy my magazine.

It also represents young males as it is centered around the rock genre and most rock bands are made up of young males. In my magazine young males are shown as quite pleasant people in the way they speak but at the same time a bit rebellious at the same time as my cover star is smoking and is not above the age at which it is legal to buy cigarettes or tobacco so this shows young males as quite intimidating as they are not conforming to the law. I think older people would be put of this as its going against the rules but to the rest of the youth this wouldn't be seen as an issue or put them of buying it. The way that young males are shown in interviews and reviews is positive and quite mature. The way they are presented fits my genre but confirms the stereotype on young people.

Rockers are represented in this magazine as it is mainly focused on the rock genre. They are shown as cool and down to earth individuals  as these are peoples role models and what people aspire to be like so by slating them or showing them in a bad light not only does it put the artists themselves off coming for an interview it puts your target audience off your magazine as they do not want to read about you giving their heroes a hard time. This is shown in the text as the questions given aren’t ones that are awkward but ones that ask questions people want to know about and are straight forward to answer with no hidden meaning for example one of my questions are “will you not miss the band?” and this is easy enough to answer and come across as nice all you have to say is “yes” to show that your not an obnoxious , fame crazed rocker. The image taken of my cover star that features on my front page does show him off to be quite cool as his face is half covered by his hair adding mystery to the picture, also holding a cigarette that’s got smoke going up creates quite a nice effect, also in the picture his eyes look like deep black circles you cannot tell his eye colour from the picture and this again proposes a bit of mystery. I want to show rockers in this way as the stereotype is that these people are on drugs, casually having sex with their heads stuck in the clouds but by showing them as down to earth and pleasant it challenges this stereotype, also by doing this it may even help to change this stereotype on rockers. By showing them like this it will make people more likely to buy the magazine as it’s conforming to what the target audience want to see. I wouldn’t say the way I put the rockers across  fits in with the genre but it’s like that for a reason and that is that I'm trying to show rockers differently than what most magazines would .