How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I have been representing folk and acoustic musicians in my magazine through a number of ways. I have also been reproducing stereotypical idea's about this group as well as challenging these dominant idea's. We represent groups through our own interpretations of them and through what we believe is true about them. So what the media does is construct a reality which fits but this construction is not true or accurate. So the way I have been representing people of the acoustic/folk scene is the way I see them.The main way that I have been representing these people are generally through nature and all things natural. I have done this as when doing my research into acoustic magazine's I noticed that all the musicians featured in the magazine as photographed around nature, including natural props and settings.

Below are some pictures I have found from the magazine 'ACOUSTIC' where evidence of these acoustic artists are photographed in an artistic manner.

As you can see in these pictures, the men are all surrounded by nature and also the photo has been finished in black and white, this is to give the impression of the artists being 'arty.'

I have photographed all my models surrounded by nature, so I photographed in fields and tree's.

Also the men are wearing clothes of a typical acoustic fashion, which clearly do not follow the fashions and trends worn by non-radicals.

Here are some pictures of both males and females who could be seen to be part of the acoustic/folky scene.

In these pictures you can see what I would class as a typical acoustic person. All of their images are simular, but all with their slight individual style. Also the flowers in the hair is important to as I also included this in my photographs and it also links in with the idea of these people being linked to nature again.

Here are some photo's from my magazine where I have portrayed the acoustic artists in the same fashion and also used the black and white finish on the picture to portray the artist as arty and creative

I have made my model, sit surrounded by nature and look natural and not posy. I have also made her wear clothes of a Bohemian style as I am representing acoustic/folky artists as individual, arty, creative and unique. I have also made her remove all make-up so it fits in with the bare, minimilistic style and also use probs which link to nature, such as the wooden chair and scatterd flowers on the blanket.

In my magazine I have only a few photo's of men, the rest are women, which could be argued that i'm showing too many women in my magazine and not representing the acoustic audience fairly. In real media magazine's, men are photographed more than women as they are generally thought to be better at acoustic guitar and to begin with men were the only sex that played the guitar. But I feel that this is reidual ideology as more and more women are starting to play the acoustic guitar and so the emerging ideology is that women are just as good as men at the guitar, and this was something that I wanted to put across and make clear in my magazine.

So I thought I would challenge this and include more female artists in my magazine as well as using a female artist as the main sell on my front cover.