1. Qu2.
How does your media product
represent particular social groups?

2. What is representation?
Representation is basically how something has been re-presented. It is the description or portrayal of
someone or something in a particular way or as being of a certain nature. In the following slides I have
analysed my 3 pages and have shown the different representations of the different people within my
products. I have explored the different stereotypes of groups of people, gender, age, clothing, mise-en-
scene and mode of address. Here is a quick overall summary of the representation of social groups in my
3 documents:
-The gender of all the people in my pages are males.
-They all wear quite fashionable, bright clothing.
-The age range ranges from about 15-30.
-The images are all positive and ‘fun’.
-The images portray the stereotype of guys in the pop music industry.

3. Who is being represented?
My media products are representing the pop genre. Throughout my 3 products I have used my brother
as the main model. I have also used some of my images of some male pop artists that I have seen. This is
helping to attract to my target audience more, and clearly shows that it is a pop magazine. Throughout
the 3 documents, I have got my model to wear quite boyband style clothing. This could be quite
stereotypical, but I think the clothing I have used throughout my three documents is suitable for my
magazine. I carried out research on what people in boybands and males in the pop industry wear, I
have gone with the ordinary stereotype, and think that it make my magazine documents have an
overall positive feel to them.
I have got my model wearing a cardigan, v-neck, jumpers, polo shirt and skinny jeans, making him suit
more and helping to attract my target audience of female teenagers. All of the images I have used, the
ages of the people range from about 15-30. Some of the male pop artists I have included images of are:
Olly Murs, Jason Derulo, Chipmunk, Tom from The Wanted and Aston from JLS. All the clothing is quite
colourful, making each of the images more ‘fun’ and eye catching to the reader.
I have cut round most of my images that I have included, making them have a clear white background.
One image I left as a small thumbnail and you can clearly see it is taken at a concert by all the
equipment in the background. I think by including some of my images from concerts I have been to it
helps to make my documents more varied and interesting as they are real music celebrities. All of the
images that I have included are of males, which makes my magazine appeal more to girls. All the
images are quite ‘fun’ and overall are quite positive.

4. Representation within my front cover…
My model is represented as being quite ‘fun’ and
happy, by his facial expression. He is represented
as being quite laid back by his positioning. The
image has a positive feel to it, which helps to
encourage people to pick up my magazine. My
model is dressed fairly smartly, he is wearing
jeans, polo shirt and cardigan, which help to
connote the pop genre as he is dressed like in
boyband style clothing. He is seen as being very
relaxed and I think the blue stripes on the
cardigan work really well.
These are some of my pictures from t4otb 2011. In
two of the pictures the guys are topless, this is
represented them as being quite revealing, and
is helping to attract my target audience more.
They are all holding microphones, which shows
that it has been taken at a concert. Jason Derulo
is ripping his vest of, representing him as being
quite revealing and confident.

5. Representation within my contents page…
This image is of Aston This image is of Chipmunk.
from JLS, it was taken He is also holding a
at Escot Park. He is microphone, showing that
wearing a low cut top, the image has been taken
showing off his chest. In at a concert. His clothing is
the image, he is seen as quite bright so it stands out
being quite revealing a lot. He is a different race,
and relaxed. showing the diversity
between all the pop artists.
This image is of Olly
Murs, his clothing is
quite colourful,
representing him as
This image is of Tom from
being ‘fun’ and
The Wanted. I really like
interesting. It has a
this image. It represents
really positive feel to it
him as being like very
and I really like this
passionate about music by
image.
his position and facial
This image is of my expression. I think that the
brother again. He is in colour blue is a very
different boyband like common colour within the
clothing and again is clothing of the pop artists.
smiling and happy.

6. Representation within my DPS…
In this image my model is
smiling and again is being
represented as being ‘fun’
and interesting. In this image,
he is wearing a v-neck
jumper, it is more revealing,
and the fact he is pulling
down his top slightly shows a
different side to him. My
model has brown flicky hair, I
think this as well as the
clothing I have used
represents pop and boybands.
Many boy in pop boybands
seem to hair long fringes with
flicky fringes, so I think that
my model works well in my
magazine. He suits well with
all the other male pop artists Overall, throughout all 3 of my documents, I have used images of all
I have included and doesn’t males of a variation of different ages. They all have a positive, ‘fun’,
stand out as not fitting in. interesting feel to them and suit well to the pop genre. The clothing of
each person is all very stereotypical as to what guys in boybands and
the pop industry would wear, like v-necks, shirts, cardigans, skinny
jeans etc.