Not only do I need to consider how the artists keep to their own ideology in the magazine, I need to consider how they are represented to the audience as well as look at how I want to represent my audience. As my target audience is those aged from 14 to 25, I am looking at high school students up to University students. Usually people placed in this age range are unfairly represented through the media, with the common use of teenage stereotypes. Stereotypes are basic devices that the media use in order for the audience to instantly understand a character or a group of people, for example, a group of boy and girls wearing glasses, have braces and carrying school books - they would instantly be branded as "Geeks." As the media is often unfair to teenage and young people stereotypes, you need only to scan the first few sections of a news paper to find the word "Youths" I need to be particularly careful and fair to my target audience, as not to offend them.
In order to represent my teenage/young person audience fairly I will follow the stereotype "Teen as Fun." There are only to major teenage stereotypes, representing Teen as Fun or Teen as Threat. Teen as Fun implies that teenagers are the future, have a lot of promise in them, are smart, interesting etc. While Teen as Threat shows teenagers as weapon carriers, drinkers, unpleasant in appearance, unfriendly etc. To represent my teenage audience positively I will use positive language when writing my interview, as well as having my feature artist mention in the interview that her fan base are extremely supportive. These may be subtle things, however they will have a positive effect on my target audience, it will also prove any older members of my audience that teenagers are not the way the appear in other media texts.
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