EVALUATION: Question Two

Question Two: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Age: The age group which my magazine would represent would be individuals between the ages of 13 and 30 and to show this, It uses Pictures of a young audience and the artists all released their songs and became popular during the 1990’s and the year 2000 onwards so this selected audience would be old enough to remember when the songs were released.

Gender: The gender would mostly be males but represents a split audience of at least 85% males and 15% females. The reasons behind  this is because the images in the product display male artists such as ‘DJ Gladwin’ and the ‘Lord’s Of Paradise’ but the magazine mentions female artists such as Lady Gaga which are usually recognised to have a female audience. Another reason is that Euro-Dance generally leans towards a male audience whereas Euro-pop/ POP music leans towards a female audience with there being more boy-bands and solo female artists singing about love which overall leans towards a female audience.

Ethnicity: The ethnicity that my media product represents would be that of a white audience. The reasons to show this are that the Artists mentioned are mostly of European status such as GiGi-Agostino and Daddy DJ. Another reason is that the images of the artists used as no artist that has been mentioned has been of any other ethnicity other than white and because most of euro-dances most popular artists come from Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and the United kingdom, all countries which are seen as mostly having a white ethnicity.

Class: the class that my media product would represent would be of working class to middle class as The clothing worn in the images are expensive-looking clothing but the music itself is aimed at working class people. The genre of euro-dance is listened to by many people without them even realising it as euro-dance is a sub-genre of Pop and many popular artists today such as the Italobrothers, Eiffel 65 and Scatman John. Each of these artist’s songs are loved by many working class despite wearing items that would be only affordable by higher earning people such as middle class.