Evaluation: Question Two

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups

My media product will directly represent and stand for a particular social group; the 'MetalHead' community. Usually between 18 - 30, these long haired, denim and leather wearing, middle class people will be always be seen wearing a t-shirt from a band they enjoy, although unlike other genres of music fashion, the only mandetory part is wearing a T-shirt since some people cannot grow their hair long. The images used for my product have partially keep to these rules with two of the models used dressed in a Denim shirt and jeans or simply all in black. Although this does not apply to all models since once again the dress code isn't manditory. The metal genre is associated with all kinds of satanism, death and various other wierd categories such as those, as such metal colours are black, red, grey and generally dark colours - my magazine uses all of them, as well as the 'grungey' type design of my second page showing how worn down and used the page is, much like how worn out and destroyed people are after going mental at a metal concert.

The models used in my magazine are middle class, white people which is what the majority of the metal community is, you don't have to be rich to rock out. The choice of equipment the models are using and the location of one of them shows the early beginnings of what a metal band has to go through (playing in a garage with very little equipment) since they can't afford studio time being from such a background.