Coursework Evaluation: Representation

I chose to address Metal Heads in a manner in which they speak; casually but not to a humorous extent as I found that Head Bangers or metal fans generally aren’t the kind of people who make jokes a lot. As I explained earlier, I used two different fonts to represent Metal music lovers; however, I have not used two different ways of communicating with them. In order to get the youth culture to take in the info and news that are inside the magazine, I needed to make fonts and language clear and easy to understand. It was easy to make the text clear, seeing as I used a completely black background; I needed to merely use gothic text to make it stand out among other things. Language, however, was a challenge. I had to think like a Grunger and an allround metal music lover to talk like one too, not the easiest thing in the world. After completing my audience research, I found that all I needed to do was talk casually, which was rather unusual considering the stereotype.


In my photographs, as I said earlier, the people are not smiling; they are either giving a wierd stances and looking directly at the camera which could show attitude. This could also connote the sinister attitude and the deviation from social norms, but they are actually looking at the camera. emos and metal fans also seem to think of themselves as superior to some others, I attempted to represent this by using a few low angled shots to make them look taller and larger than life and have used an education setting to represent the social class and age.

Finding an emo or metal fan is resonably easy because of what they wear. They often wear black, often black t-shirts with an artistic/ band on the front. What is highly unusual about my front cover image is how the youth is represtented by using younger people in the pictures which fits in well because the bands themselves are usually younger in this genre.

I think I more reinforced the stereotypical metal and emos than undermined it. Using images which connote and denote all of these things to do with clothing, attitude and music, through the camera angles used in the pictures, fonts and styles used in the making of the magazine and using people that correspond to this genre.