Main Task: Evaluation Question 2

My music magazine is made to target an audience of both male and female who have an interest in Hip-Hop and listen to that type of music. I represented this particular social group through the use of images and the articles that would be featured in my magazine. The artist/ model used in my front cover represents this social group as the props used and the way he looks/ is dressed correlates particular social groups in many different ways.

As mentioned earlier one of the ways in which my music magazine is linked to social groups is through the use of clothing. In my magazine the costume that my model is wearing is very modern and more integrated with the style and fashion of Hip-Hop artists; he is wearing a black bomber jacket, a black and orange hooded top and casual Levi denim jeans. This looks is very modern and is associated with various artist such as 50 cent, P-diddy etc. this costume is a typical style of the genre that I have chosen and it shows that the artist is very neat and is up to date with the fashion and style of the era and the Hip-Hop industry. Furthermore, the clothes are quite fashionable particularly the black bomber jacket, the hoody and the casual jeans, which I feel correlates with the genre and represents that particular social group as artists of that genre and listeners of the genre are fashionable and have a particular style.

The Props/ accessories on the model gives an overview of the hard working studio type artist as he is wearing headphones, this suggests that he is into music and enjoys listening to it. This connects with the target audience I have chosen to target as both the artist and the audience enjoy listening to music. The posture of the model represents the social groups I have targeted as he looks quite “Gangster and Out There” which is a look that most artists go for in the Hip-Hop industry, the posture is also quite laid back but there is a sense of masculinity and dominance.