Evaluation: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my planning and research, I wanted my magazine to represent, teenage boys, of a sociable and maybe badly behaved stereotype.

The target audience of my magazine was teenage males, so I did everything I could to make my magazine represent this.
I think my magazine and the way it represents my particular social group is very realistic, as a large variety of the UK's population is made up of teenage males, therefore my magazine already had the advantage of being able to cover a large number of individuals.
I then narrowed my audience down, to badly behaved, yet sociable teenage males, such as the ones modeled in my photography.

I used teenage male models, and included content within my magazine that teenage males could relate to, such as hip hop music, girls, gadgets and other interests most boys have of this stereotypical genre.

I made sure the models within my magazines pages, followed the dress code of my intended audience, such as hooded jackets, branded T-shirts and trainer shoes. Aswell as making sure my models looked correct, I also made sure the setting of my photographs were accurate, I used streets as the setting to take my photographs in, so that my audience could relate to it more naturally, and could even be reading the magazine representing the streets, while they were in the streets.

I used sans serif fonts, a trendy colour scheme and images and contents that teenage boys would like to see.

One of the main aspects within my work, where I relate it to my particualr social group, Is that throughout my work, including the front page, contents page and double page spread, I used the same style of grammar and vocabulary that the social group reading my magazine would use.

For example "Bare" and "sick" are used in obviously the wrong context, but to a teenage boy, that fits in with my target group, he could understand every phrase within my magazine.

I did not include teenage boys, that are polite, and helpful, and working hard, and I didn't include the correct grammar that should have been used because I wanted to emphasise everything that is my audience. This is a way that absent representation emphasises the stereotype that is my audience.