How does your magazine represent particular social groups?

Above is a picture of models to create the band I featured on my front cover, The posture that they are all making seems to describe them as a band that work hard, yet try not to be overly noticed and are happy with just being obscure. This is reinforced with the environment that they are in, which is an industrial one, shows that they have yet to really make it big but seem happy to stay there. Also they’re posture seems to be a rather intimidating as if they’re almost daring people to come listen their music.

Their clothing also suggest something about the social groups this magazine and band try to reach, with each band member having their own unique style it shows that J-Rock is for everyone and it means no-one has to conform or be the same in order to enjoy it. This means that J-rock can be both niche and mainstream, with everyone being able to enjoy it.

I compared by band with that of a popular J-rock band, “Kelun” it can be seen how similar both band are to each other in a lot of ways, but still with some major differences.

Both shots have been taken at a mid-shot to long-shot so as to capture the style of each band. There is a key difference with both images though, with the image of my band been taken in low key natural lighting so show that the band are on the scene, but still working hard on their music, “Kelun” have been photographed with a very high key lighting showing they’ve made it big, but the shadows behind them seem to show they haven’t forgotten completely how far they’ve come in order to reach this point, seeing as there is the light of fame ahead of them and the shadow of the struggles they’ve faced behind them.

After comparing my feature band to “Kelun” who are a popular J-rock band, you can see that the pose is very similar, although the styles of the “Kelun” band members are similar; they also each have a unique twist on them, just like my band. With both bands each representing my demographic in the same way, which is as rebellious yet still under control. This gives my magazine a very unique twist on how teens and certain music genres are represented by society.