Evaluation: Representation

The main magazine image doesn't really connote any type of rebellion at all really as it is just of a singer standing looking into the camera. I have mainly concentrated on Indie kids but the magazine could also be approached to by other stereotypical sub-cultural groups. I mainly centered the magazine around males as this gender was the highest counted when I did my research. The magazine doesn't really give assumptions about who is "allowed" in and excluded from the magazine so I guess that it imposes the limitations of who the magazine is aimed at but the style of the magazine will be unlikely to be picked up by a 10 year old girl who loves pop music and pretty boy bands.I don't really think the one male image I have is very masculine but the way the male is standing is quite masculine, he is standing tall looking into the camera which can come across as quite dominating, but there is a shyness or even a "not bothered" look to the image because he has his hands in his pockets. The female images I have are mainly of one person as I wanted to be continuous with my main article, most of these images show the kind of "myspace" pose where you are looking into the lense and the camera is at a high angle or your face take up most of the image but I did take other shots to get away from the same types of angles, the female images represent youth and fun because she is a young girl and the poses she pulled were quite fun whereas some were quite serious. I think the images I've taken actually fit well in with the stereotype of "Indie" with the magazine being aimed at 16 - 20 year old guys I have used images of women more so than men to entice them to read because the majority of red blooded males interests are around girls and sex. The models in the images I have used look a mixture of Indie/Emo/Scene kids so this will appeal well to the stereotype I have chosen to target and I have given the magazine a fun loving but sophisticated look so that it appeals to their youth but is still good looking rather than something somebody has thrown together on paint.
I have taken care not to represent youth in an irresponsible way, for example I would only use a drugs article in a magazine to show the dangers and risks of using drugs but if you did put an article about drugs to heavy metal fans it would probably be glamorised as so many heavy metal stars take drugs and their fans look up to them and want to be like them because they see it as being "hardcore" so I think in someways it really would reinforce the stereotype but some people are pressured into drug taking because of their idols using drugs etc but if it was written in the right way I suppose it would explore the reality of the subculture.