How does your Media product represent particular social groups?

When analysing my product, I feel confident in saying my front cover main image, shows representations of a youth male. This was my aim, as my magazine was aimed at young people and teenagers. I feel it was important to have a young male, as  a young teenager could associate themselves and relate themselves to the image.

I have represented my main character by purposely dressing the young male in modern teenage clothing. When doing research into magazines aimed at young audiences, I took notice to the costume of the males and females. With my main mage being a male, I knew my image would have a bigger impact he were dressed up similar to how my audience would. 

The location of the main image wasn't relevant, as I was going to remove the background through Photoshop. Although I did place the male in a background that I knew would be easy to edit, this wasn't my first option in terms of how I wanted to represent the main image. 

My main camera angle is a 'mid-shot'. I thought this would be important, as I imagined looking at the image if I were the audience. I felt it would have a bigger impact if the audience could look directly at the image and come up with similar representations as myself. 

My images for my product all include artists in action. My product was designed like this because I wanted the images to be represented similarly and that they could all be linked with similar representations. This is linked with the body language of the images I have used, in that they are cool and confident, and these are some more of the representations I was trying to achieve. 

The lighting for all the images are quite dark. At first, I had a mixture, with my front cover being very bright. This was the same for my double-page main image, where I edited the image to be darker. I felt this would be effective as it links with my music genre. I didn't want to contrast the type of music I was promoting , and having a light and bright music magazine. 

All of the images I have used were deliberately used to not intimidate the reader. I feel it is better to use images for my music magazine that show the artist playing naturally rather than them looking directly at the reader. I think teenagers prefer images of artists playing than them posing looking directly at the camera. I have used this idea on my front cover as shown.