My Final Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media magazine represents youth through text, as I used some slang, colloquialisms and speech fillers that are used frequently among younger people. I also referred to artists such as The Medic Droid, Metronomy and Hollywood Undead, who are all popular artists of the techno/power pop genre and well known within the scene kid subculture. Looking through my images, I found that I had also ended up connoting that youth is urban, through the use of my brick and building backgrounds as well as the idea that they are harsh, which I did through the body language of my models and their facial attitudes. I also ended up heavily representing females in an interesting way. My female models were typically shot with a head-on or slight high angle connoting they are slightly weak individuals, though I then contradicted the stereotype that girls are vulnerable and frail through the use of the eye contact with the camera as well as the aggressive attitudes and the distracting clothing of my models; which ends up connoting that these girls shouldn’t be messed with.
Also, my magazine does a fair job at representing race as my models were of a range of ethnicities – yet still keeps white, middle class people as the majority, representing scene kids appropriately as they are the main members of this subculture.