Representation

Representations are the way that the media portrays particular groups, communities or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. Representation is not a real version of events it is constructed.

• The genders in my magazine would be represented by the images that are used in the magazine, different genders are attracted to different things and they will find different things appealing. The different genders will not be portrayed in a bad way through the images, so the images that will be shown will not be too revealing as this will be a bad representation. Both male and female would be represented in the same way.
• The different ages that will be represented vary. The people that would be in the magazines age would be young coming from the ages sixteen to thirty, this is a wide age group and it would allow there to be a larger audience that would be attracted to the magazine. Sometimes there may be some artists that are over the age of thirty as they may have a successful career which would also attract an audience as they would be famous and people would want to read about their life
• Different races would be represented as my target audience would be from an Asian decent (Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi) this is because they are mostly the people that would listen to this type of music. This type of music started in India as folk songs and then became a larger music industry especially in the UK. Most of the songs are in Panjabi lyrics which would attract a Panjabi audience. Although anyone that likes the music can listen to it, but the majority of people that will are the ones that have been stated above.
• The other types of groups that could be represented is Asians that have made it big in other charts for example Jay Sean, Naughty boy, DJ Khalid, Priyanka Chopra and many more other people. This would attract a wider audience range as these are famous people that people already listen to and they know of them. No groups have been deliberately unrepresented, the magazine is purely for anyone that wants to buy it, although the people that would want to buy the magazine would be Asian.
• The representation of the people in the magazine would be portrayed in a positive way; cultural reasons being that everyone should be portrayed equally and women should not be shown in a revealing light. The magazine should make the people feel happy and it should make them want to buy the magazine. If the magazine looks attractive and the people that are shown in it look appealing and happy then the people would want to buy the magazine.The representation of the magazine could be interpreted in different ways if someone who is famous from an Asian decent (Jay Sean) is on the front cover, then people would want to buy the magazine then they would carry on reading the magazine then they will not know who the other people in the magazine are.
• The representation ideology is presented through the dominant ideology of the culture; this is having both genders portrayed in the same and correct way in a positive light. Bhangra is an old Panjabi folk music, this means that it is mostly the same and it has a lot of history to it and this means that the people that are represented may sometimes be older.