Thursday, 9 February 2012

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Setlists fan base mostly consists of males 14-23 who belong to ‘emo’ subculture, however the magazine also has a fair amount of female readers too. The readers consider themselves ‘individuals’ and usually are proud of being unique; this is reflected through the way they dress and reading Setlist also promotes this image through its distinctive appearance.

I compared an photo of a person from my magazine to someone who is in a similar band that actually exists. Click on the picture below to see the notes I made.
Kieron/Oli



















I think this photo of Kieron embodies everything the social group I am trying to present is, including his age, style of dress, music he plays, his attitude to the world, how he doesn't care about 'fitting in' and how he'd much rather stand out from the crowd than be a sheep. Psycho-graphics wise, I think its difficult to put all of my target audience under one label, but if I had to it would probably be a mix of aspirers and individuals because the western world is a very consumerist place to live and most young people do buy things so they can show off the sub-culture they belong to, yet they want to be different from most other people. It is also hard to pin down what class they would be, but I don't think it matters because anyone can join a sub-culture as long as their accepted and with youth, acceptance is mostly based on personality and how they act/how many friends they have rather than how much money they have.

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Original Photos

These are my favourites out of the pictures I've taken over the last couple of days for the magazine.
The band that will be on the cover

Other pictures for the contents

Monday, 14 November 2011

Target Audience Results



I got 6 people to fill in my survey, then I took a printscreen of my results.




He isn't really 'awesome', he's caucasian.








Overall this shows that to cater for my target audience I should include alternative and rock genres of music even though none of the people who filled in my survey fit in the typical emo-ish subculture that you would assume they might. Also, the majority of the results say more pictures is preferable to more text. Four people said they have been to 3 - 4 gigs in the past year, meaning that I could include a gig guide as a cover line and that could be fairly popular - this also fits in with an answer to 'what would make you buy a magazine rather than looking online for music news?' which was to have a gig guide. Also included were free gifts, pictures, standing out and having articles other magazines don't. I found out from this survey that they don't generally read magazines so if I included news about a website, that would be up-to-date too.