Sunday, 16 December 2018

Media and Advertising - Revision

Media revision

Advertising

Shelter — 
About the company
  • For every £1, 21p spent on fundraising and 79p spent on helping
  • Offer face to face services, a national helpline, online advice, legal support
  • Founded in 1966
  • 3 million people were living in slums
  • 50 years later 100,000 children are homeless 
  • In 1980 convinced government to give social housing tenants the same security of tenure as private renters 
About the poster
  • Rhetorical questions
  • Fake friendship established
  • Intertextual link to search bar and anchorage
  • Use of ‘we’
  • Red font
  • Sanserif font
  • Website linked
  • Sad expression
  • ordinary people in distress 
  • Gender and age diversity - no disabled even though in 2009 40% of homeless people in US were disabled

Lucozade — 
About the company
  • Lucozade used to be marketed as a medical drink
  • Had to rebrand multiple times, including 1998 where it was masculine and working class 
About the poster
  • Yellow and blue colours match the drink brand
  • San serif font 
  • Pun and intertextual link
  • ‘yes’ is positive and anchorage
  • Direct address and ‘game face’
  • Information about the player which could be an intertextual link to trading cards
  • Product displayed larger than it would really be 
  • Tries to make audience believe it is true facts (logical advertising)
  • Conventional of an energy drink advert (blue, bright, enlarged image, sanserif, direct mode of address, simplistic)

Old Spice — 
About the company
  • Rebranding. In the 80s there was minimal editing and shows prize of female, and 90s shows a man on a bike and is masculine 
  • Founded in the 30s as nautical themed
  • Discontinued women’s fragrances so only for men
  • Women were targeted in adverts as they became responsible for 50% body wash purchases
About the poster

  • Direct mode of address
  • Saturated colours
  • Body is part of the beach
  • Male gaze of a woman in a bikini
  • Volcano represents masculinity 
  • A bold, capital non-serif font
  • Cursive signature
  • Fantastical images
  • Product matches the background image
  • Head in the sand is surreal - all of it is
  • Rule of thirds
  • Barthes semantic code
  • Anchorage makes fun of ‘false claims’ and parodies other adverts

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