Thursday 24 March 2011

Evaluation Task 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?




The rock band Paramore would be featured in a magazine similar to mine. Hayley Williams is the lead singer and face of the band and an icon in rock, as Zoe Pacific is in my band. The one of HW includes the rest of her band although I have only focused on her.  It is a mid-shot, however it is still very similar to the more close up image I have featured on my cover. I feel the poses mirror each other as they both have their hands on their hips. Their brightly coloured hair is also very fitting and stereotypical of the rock social group. Also they are both looking directly at the camera, which seems to directly address the reader as though they are looking at them. However the facial expression of the two are very different. HW is smiling whereas ZP has a more intensive look. Their clothing is also very contrast as HW is wearing a casual mixture of jeans and a plain top whilst ZP is wearing very dark clothes, which are usually more associated with rock. I think the features I have demonstrated in HW's photo reflect her bands more playful, pop genre of rock, whilst ZP is really channeling an air of a very serious rock band. I think this obvious look of rock represents a large amount of rock fans as the style of dark colours my model is wearing is associated rock and many fans often take music very seriously.

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