Reprensentations and research

For research I decided to think of how my magazine represents the social groups within my school. In my school there are people from many different social backgrounds. Whether your from africa, asia, europe etc. I would like my magazine to repressent of these ethnic backgrounds and not alienate anyone. That is not to say that my front page has to be muliticultral, as I want my front page to be something that I think would attract people's attention. However I want my contents page to involve having pictures from many different areas of the school eg art, science, and even pictures of what people do in the sixth form common room.

Then for futher research I decided to have a survey on what people would expect ot be on the front cover of the school magazine. There was 5 options for pictures:

Pictures in a  science class
Picture in an art class
Picture in the common room
Picture of students doing an activity
Other

Firstly I had 5 options because if there were many options then the would be no clear winning, and therefore I would gather no informtation.  $ of the options were the pcitures I was intrested in using. I chose up to 20 students, 10 from upper sixth form, and then another 10 from lower sixth form. I done this becuase it would of been a fair representation of what sixth form studdents thing, and it would alow me to gather an consensus.  Here are the results.


Pictures in a  science class- 6
Picture in an art class-4
Picture in the common room-8
Picture of students doing an activity-2
Other-0

Total number of votes 20

Analysis of results

What the results show me is that people from sixth form wanted pictures from the common whether outside or inside to be on the front cover the most. This tells me that people in sixth form want the magazine to reflect on what they do when they are soccialising outside class. Luckily enough the first draft of my magazine already has a pictures of  students  sitting outside in the sixth form playground. The second most popular thing that students wanted to have on the magazine was oictures take from science class. If I were to use an image from science class I hope to represent science as intresting and fun. This is important becuase I want school to come across as enjoyable, otherwise my target audience will not be at all intrested in reading my magazine.   It will also be going against teenage stereotype, in which people expect teenagers to look thugish.