Muhammed's Blogger/Media

  1) What   key conventions   of TV advertising can you find in the Galaxy advert? Slogan, colour scheme, packshot 2) What is the  key message  the Galaxy advert is communicating about its chocolate? The slogan for the advert will help you with this question. The key message about this advert is that Galaxy brings you happiness and relaxation. Galaxy will make your day better. 3) Who is Audrey Hepburn and w hy did Galaxy select Audrey Hepburn for this advert?  Audrey was a award winning British actress. She was humanitarian. Galaxy selected Audrey Hepburn because she represents heritage, classiness and elegance.   4) What is intertextuality? Intertextuality is when one media text refers to or another media text. 5) What Audrey Hepburn films are suggested in this advert and how is this effect created (e.g. mise-en-scene - CLAMPS: costume, lighting, actors, make-up, props, setting)? This is because her costume is very fashionable and elegant. This m...

  1) What year was the advert produced? This advert was produced in 1955. 2) How were women represented in most adverts in the 1950s? Add as much detail to this answer as you can as these are the social, cultural and historical contexts we will need to write about in the exam. Women were represented as oversexualised and their faces has a lot of makeup to make them look perfect. 3) How does the heading message ('OMO makes whites bright') and the style of the text promote the product? This will want to make the audience (mainly women) gain interest in buying this product because it says 'OMO makes whites looks bright', this will mean that this will save time for women to consistently keep washing over and over again. 4) Analyse the mise-en-scene in the advert (CLAMPS): how is costume, make-up and placement of the model used to suggest women's role in society? The costume the women is wearing looks very bright coloured and you will notice her sleeve is rolled up which...

1) Find  three  adverts featuring women that are from the 1950s or 1960s.  Save the images to your Media folder as jpegs and then import them into your blog post.  Hint:  You may wish to look at car, perfume or cleaning products but can use any product you wish 2) Find  three  adverts featuring women that are from post-2000.  Save the images to your Media folder as jpegs and then import them into your blog post. 3) What stereotypes of women can you find in the 1950s and 1960s adverts? Give specific examples. The stereotypes back in the 1950s and 1960s adverts about women are mostly cleaning adverts for women. This means women's responsibility is to do the home chores + taking responsibility to take care of your children. EG.  Cleaning, laundry taking kids to school etc. 4) What stereotypes of women can you find in the post-2000s adverts? Give specific examples. The stereotypes back in 2000 linking to perfume ads, almost all of the ads has wom...

  1) What  key conventions  of print adverts can you find and what are the  connotations  or deeper meanings of each convention?  For each convention, write about how it communicates meaning to the audience. See the Maltesers advert above for an example of how to do this. For this advert, skittles are using many different colours to show that this product comes in different colours. The slogan here says here, "Taste The Rainbow". The slogan here shows the audience that this products also has different tapes of taste because a rainbow obviously has many different bright colours involved in the advert. 2) What is the USP (unique selling point) for Skittles and how do you know? Does the advert use any of persuasive techniques listed above? On the actual products you see it says original fruit. This tells us that Skittles are quite a healthy product compared to other companies. Look at the Maltesers example above if you are unsure how to complete these tasks. P...