Evaluation Draft: Task 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• Young Alts
• Metalheads
• Scene Kids
• Both heavily interested in the internet, although Scene Kids & Metalheads are also heavily interested in TV and magazines, whilst Young Alts are less interested in the former as they are newspapers, radio and cinema
• Mainly targeted at people interested in rock music and 80s punk culture
• The written style of my magazine, as well as the graphology, represents these groups in that it conveys an irreverent nature and uses taboo, colloquialisms and slang, as well as controversial topic and language choices

Artist comparison

The Simple Things (my artist) / Siouxsie & The Banshees (80s punk band)

 

Similarities:

• Both taken outside
• Same number of band members
• One female & two male
• Instruments included
• Passive poses

Differences:

• Clothing is plain in the Banshees image but quite patterned in my image
• Female of The Simple Things is looking directly at the camera and has been edited into the image (stands out at the front)
 

The Simple Things (my artist) / The Clash (70s/80s punk band)

 

Similarities:

• Both black and white images
• Strong, engaging poses
• Same texture applied to image (threshold effect)
• Both plain backrounds

Differences:

• No instruments used in Clash image
• Short spikey hair as opposed to long curly hair
• All male / two male & one female
• Member of The Clash wearing a white shirt and tie - more neat and tidy 

Although my artists' clothing are significantly scruffier than that of these 80s bands, they do match up to more current punk rock bands I have also featured in my magazine, such as:

blink-182;
 

Sum 41;
 

 and Green Day