Coursework Evaluation: Representation

) I chose to address Goths in a manner in which they speak; casually but not to a humorous extent as I found that Goths generally aren’t the kind of people who make jokes a lot. As I explained earlier, I used two different fonts to represent the two types of Goth; 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 WoB text to make it stand out among other things. Language, however, was a challenge. I had to think like a Goth to talk like a Goth, 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 Goth.

In my photographs, as I said earlier, the people are not smiling; they are either giving a glare or sneering. This could connote the sinister attitude and the deviation from social norms, but they are actually looking at the camera. Goths 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 a Goth is easy because of what they wear. They often wear black trench coats, black t-shirts with an artistic, yet dark themed image, “punk pants” and metal plated boots. No matter what people may think, there are also female Goths, I have also represented this in my images as well by involving them in two images; one in the double page spread and the other in the contents page. What is highly unusual about my front cover image is how the youth, though male, is wearing black nail varnish. This is definitely deviating from social norms because men don’t normally walk around with nail varnish on, no matter what colour.
I think I more reinforced the stereotypical Goth than undermined it. Using images which connote and denote all of these things to do with clothing, attitude and music, but there were a few abnormalities with along the way. Such as the nail varnish and how much like an everyday man/woman they can be.