1. How my media product represents
particular social groups

2. This is the image I used for the double page spread of my media product . It
is stereotypical of the genre I am representing (grime music) because
stereotypes are what society expect to see in the media, and popular. I also
had to make the image fairly stereotypical so that my audience, would be
able to relate to it.
Having said this, the image does challenge the stereotype that girls need to
be thin, or tall, fair skin or what society would call ‘the perfect girl’. There is
nothing flirtatiously suggestive about the poses shown and nowadays
females in their late teens are rarely portrayed simply in media products.
Another way in which I have challenged stereotypes, is that I have associated
women with street , rebellious, urban rap music through clothing, hats and
the general feel of the image as opposed to males. The media exposes to
society a majority of successful black and Asian rappers who are male and
only few females amongst them. When female rappers are spoken of
(hardly).
I chose to use a ghosted effect on the image to take away from the need to
feel that teenage girls need to be colorful and ‘girly’. The effect doesn’t make
the image look masculine or girly but neutral.
The model shown on the right is Asian, but she doesn’t look like the image
we are constantly bombarded of Asian girls which is: reserved , shy
, introverted and usually wearing a head covering which suggests all Asian
females should wear one.
I represents particular social groups because the language used in my
magazine is informal to show that I have considered my target audience and
the kind of language they would use. For example I used slang and
shortened some of the words and changed some spellings as soon in the title
used on this image.

3. This is the original image I had taken for my front cover photo-shoot. Whilst I had already
decided on titling my magazine as ‘yin yang’ I purposely wanted to represent white and black
models on my front cover. I wanted to promote that anyone can enjoy and be part of grime
music no matter the color of their skin.
A lot of people usually associate rap music with blacks and the non Caucasian community so I
aimed to challenge that stereotype.