How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representations are a way of putting across an image of a particular social group, in my case the person in my magazine I chose to represent was women. No representation is completely true and people interpret them in different ways.

In my magazine I chose to show women in a sexual way, as eye candy to the men reading the magazine. Many other magazines do this such as FHM and they use many different semiotic codes to show this, just as I tried to do. Representing women this way was purely due to my audience which in many cases of media this affects who you're representing.

I used many different semiotics to create this image in my magazine...

Front Cover
The front cover was something which had to fully draw in my audience with the kind of representation they wanted. On the front cover I chose to show 'Hannah Stevens' in a highly sexual way and I used many different things to do this such as clothing, the pose and the writing addressed with her.

Clothing:

• The clothing used is pretty minimal and shows off a lot of skin which immediately
• Her bra is on show which gives connotations of sexual things
• She is very scantily clad

Her clothing is a huge signifier that the women in the magazine will be largely shown as eye candy and objectified. 

The pose

The pose Hannah was said to do was deliberate to create my representation. Her pose is seductive as in she has pose with drum sticks in her mouth which could give off different connotations. The pose she has done highly objectifies women and gives off the image that she is sexual, attractive to men and other connotations. 

The article surrounding 

The article which is anchored with the picture is "Hannah Stevens: Being a sex symbol" which immediately shows that the women on the front cover is going to have an article which largely represents the kind of female she is: sexy, objectified and seen as eye candy. 

The Contents page

The contents page is a little different from the front cover as it has no real photos of women to represent them. It does however have the outline of a female body which is a bit sexual but not as much as the front cover. The contents page is the one out of the three which actually does not have an objectified women on it, it gives more of a balanced view of music and other stories. 

Double page spread

The double page spread does not represent women physically however in the article there is a view of women from the interviewee's opinion. The interview is about someone who is seen as a player and a stud, therefore it is no doubt women will be seen in a different light to many other people's views. 

The article

The article about 'Teddy Rochester' is about how he has slept with countless women and had lots of fun by purely disbanding of them when he is done. Part of the interview he talks about how he has slept with 200 hundred girls, which straight away puts women in bad light as they are seen as easy. 

The title itself, "Girls like playing my game", which shows that he immediately views girls as 'game'. The article does objectify women and makes them seem as if they are there for one thing to him, but this is his personal view.