How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As mention in the video, one of my main aims was to challenge the way music magazines represent women in their front cover, which is usually of them posing provocatively, as shown in my collage below which is a selection of music magazines portraying women in that way.

The reason I think that it is a common 'convention' to have women pose in such a way in music magazines is because "sex sells," meaning that the more provocative they look, the more issues the magazine firm is going to sell, which is obviously what they're aiming for.

However, I decided to take a different approach to my magazine: rather making my model dress provocatively or making her have a seductive pose and look a lot more "grown up" than she actually is, I opted for the complete opposite. I find that women in the music industry are more known for what they wear/look like rather than what they do with their music career and I tried my best to portray women as hard-working and youthful in my photos, as shown below.

I believe that it is important to challenge that stereotype of women to prove that they aren't all the same and a "sexualised prop" to society, but rather that some actually take their job seriously, while at the same time allowing themselves act their own age.