Evaluation Q.2

How does your media product represent different groups?

• Looking back at my work, I have realised that I have made men look more dominant to women regarding the concept of having a general interest of rock, because I have not really used many pictures of girls in my photosThe way that the boys in my magazine are styled is in a 'rebellious' fashion (denoting from the low worn jeans, converses and guitars), show the concept of dominant representation that all teenage boys are rebellious.
• The front cover consists of a teenage boy with a guitar held high in his hand. In my article I have also included more shots of teenage boys on drums and guitars. This gives a conventional idea that all young men are rock stars.
• These all give stereotypical ideas, though I do not believe that the dominant and conventional ideas I have managed to conclude from my magazine are a construction of reality.
• However, the written article in my media product makes it look as though teenagers are aspiring young people. This is because I made one of the main article features (which I wrote) have content about young people in unsigned bands wanting to get signed, and showed insight on how to try and go for the goal and become successful. This is the one of the only concepts which I have that challenges the dominant idea of teenage boys being rebellious; this is because you cannot be rebellious and aspirational, as you need discipline to want to try and succeed.
• However, my written article of becoming a signed band and achieving in life, keeps to the dominant idea that every teenage boy wants to be a rock star.

The messages and values which I wanted to communicate through my media product were:

• The type of clothing which my models were wearing were in relation to the concept of emergent ideology (of what's occurring), because the fashion that they are wearing is up-to-date.
• The locations (such as the broken down walls in the room on the front cover) help give the messages and values of rock and roll with the connotation of rebellion - therefore once again referring back to the concept of dominant ideology.
• The font styles on the front cover are big, bold and daring. This is to grasp the attention of my young target audience. Inside my magazine, the the fonts of titles and subtitles stay bold and daring to keep achieving the genre style of rock and keeping the attention of the audience. The colour scheme that I picked out regarding the writing on the front cover, was consistent mainly of bold colours which scream at you (such as yellow, red and orange) In Photoshop I edited the fonts on the front cover to options such as 'invert,' 'glow' and 'brighten.' I found that once I applied these effects, the fonts were much more noticeable and made more of a statement. I carried the effects of this on further into the rest of my magazine.
• I kept to a colour scheme of black, red and yellow throughout my magazine, because these colours represent the genre and style of rock most suitably - as I found this out through my research.