Evaluation: How does your media product represent a particular social group?

My target audience was aimed towards urban/gospel teenagers and young adults between the ages of 13-25. The majority of those the products are aimed at will mostly be of an African ethnicity and be middle classed. I feel that my models represent this almost perfectly, to reach out to this demographic that I initially planned to target I had gotten my model to be within these same demographics and part of this same social group that I planned to reach out to. So in a way I do feel that the magazine does reflect a representation of my intended audience.

However in a way I do feel as though I am stereotyping the image of the audience that I’m trying to represent, in the sense that all the images I have taken are of your average black British, African teenager, whereas in reality other ethnicities, ages, class and region tend to listen to this type of music, for example there may be a group of white British women between the ages 0f 30-40 that enjoy the sounds of R&B styled gospel that are not represented or taken account for in my magazine.

On the whole I feel as though this magazine shows the demographic that I aimed for in a positive light, as it shows a young gospel black child striving for success within both the gospel and secular industry.