Hafsa Ahmed: A-level media studies

Aims and intentions When it comes to the representation of my work, the aim of magazine it targeted towards 16-21 year old Muslim female women. The main reason for such feature is due to the age gap. Between these ages, Muslim women and girls tend to start beginning to embrace their identity, as well as facing new approaches as they grow up. The ideology behind such features within my magazine is to help promote their identity, as well as being diverse with every Muslim women of race and culture. For example, each kid-en-scenes of Muslim women always represents them dressed up modestly, but having their own unique taste with how they design and personalise their outfits. The magazine will help develop my cross-media platform, as it will gain more interest for it to be available within other media platforms, such as social media apps. The reason for it is of how this specific target audience is nowadays selves with social media itself, giving support out at certain things that app...

Evaluation To note, the magazine issues gave two options on what specific topic I had to use: a summer and winter collection or a special issue (Halloween, Christmas, etc). I chose the summer and winter issue for my magazine. My aim for the coursework is to appeal towards a target audience of 16-21 year old demographic, as it was the basic needs for consumerism within a young adult demographic. The aim is to have the specific topic appeal more towards the target audience, gaining their interest. This then links up with the genre that I had chosen for my magazine: a mature, modest fashion ware towards Muslim women. Hen doing my research, I   noticed how only one prominent Muslim modal was present for my analysis: Halima Aden, an American Somali women who is known for breaking off stereotypes by being featured in a variety of chic and elegant magazines that depicts her different fashion ware, whilst still donning the hijab. Using her as an inspiration, I analysed the ty...