EVALUATION OF VIVERE

How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

AGE The age my magazine mostly represents is young

new artists at the beginning of their music careers. This is mainly because the focus is on new live music.

However it would not be unusual to include older artists, like in NME and Q magazines, if they were currently touring again. This therefore makes it less likely to appear but nevertheless they still might.

I chose for the models to have clothes that are sophisticated yet fashionable to represent young adults of late teens in to twenties who care about their appearance and what is considered ‘cool’.

The language of my articles are sophisticated language which again represents my target audience because they have capability to understand what is being said.

GENDER Most of the artists featured in my magazine are males

as I have found that most indie artists are males. However I wanted to use a female on my front cover because I thought that it would really make the magazine stand out from the male dominated issues of other magazines.

By putting a female on my front cover it also shows that more recently there is a growing amount of female indie artist. This therefore links with the theme of new live music of Vivere.

None of the artists are dressed provocatively which shows that the artists are being judged on their talent, rather than their sexuality. However they are all dressed in fashionable clothes which shows that I have considered elements of attractiveness to appeal to my audience.

ETHNICITY My magazine provides a small variety of

ethnicities, mainly Caucasian in my double page spread and contents page but my front cover model is mixed race.

This therefore allows me to represent different ethnicities but also represent the indie music scene which is mostly white dominate with some mixed race artists that are up and coming.

CLASS The language featured in my magazine article is

complex with therefore represents the middle class people who have been further educated through 6th Form or even university.

With the theme of live music, it also represents the middle class they have enough money to go to gigs and even big festivals like Benicassim and Leeds and Reading festival.

I have priced my magazine at £2.30 which I think is reasonable because as only a small amount of disposable income is needed to pay it.

However I have also included a subscription offer which allows a wider range of people to be able to afford my magazine, they do not have enough disposable income available.