Representation

In my media text there will be two protagonists as they are the new girl group that will be the main feature in my music magazine. There will be many pictures of my main characters that will be in different locations. They will be represented in clothes which will represent my music magazine. My protagonists will be stereotypes as my music magazine is pop and the pop stereotypes do have distinctive clothes. The media uses stereotypes as a shortcut to creating their media text as they relate to different audiences.

The characteristics of my protagonists are related through the images from my music magazine and this is another part of my magazine that will extend my audience.

Walter Lippmann came up with four functions of stereotypes. He said that stereotypes are shortcuts for journalists, they are an ordering process, a map of the world so people can associate different places with different stereotypes and Walter Lippmann also said that stereotypes are an expression of our values and beliefs.