Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?


I intend for my magazine to appeal to the "raver" subculture. To represent them, I aimed to achieve the sense of detachment and surrealism that I feel best sums up the genre of electronic music that they listen to. I attempted to do this in a number of ways, as did the image from the other magazine in the picture. Firstly, I wanted to use bright colours to capture the feel of the bright strobe lights present in nightclubs. Because I was attempting to create an imitation of Daft Punk for my centre act, this way accomplished by superimposing a brightly coloured face over the photograph. Synapse magazine did this by feeding it's cover photograph through a filter. Also, I wanted to create a sense of surreal humour and a sense of the uncanny in my cover image. The funny smile on the superimposed face serves this purpose, and the filter over Synapse's main image makes the man in the photograph look strange and inhuman.