How does your media product represent particular social groups?
My media product represents typical young adults/ late teenagers; Sophia Martinez, my fictional artist and main act, is seventeen. Therefore, she portrays girls of this age, but as she is Mexican, she is expressing people of a different nationality. However, people would want to read the magazine to discover more about her persona and the nationality in general. I have used her as my USP (unique selling point) as the magazine will be known for one that focuses on foreign artists as well as just English ones.
The table shows the similarities and differences between the photo of Shakira and the photo of Sophia.
You can see from the table that Sophia represents some conventions of magazines, but in some ways she is different. Her main difference is her age; she is very young compared to artists such as Shakira. However, in terms of their posture, make up and position, they are similar.
Sophia represents teenagers and how they are not all necessarily bad people, which is the way that they are presented generally. She also conveys some foreign aspects, as she is bringing "Music from mexico". Throughout her double page spread she often calls herself "mental" and describes everyone in Mexico as being the same. She makes us think of Mexicans as happy, positive and bubbly people. Pathetic fallacy is used as she describes how she is "bringing the Mexican sunshine to England", suggesting that she herself is the Mexican sunshine! As many people would not have much knowledge of Mexican people beforehand, she sculpts a good opinion of them through her article.
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