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Monday, 17 May 2010

Revision

7. Targeted advertising = Adverts placed to reach audiences based on demographics (facebook/amazon/ebay) for example ‘people who bought this also bought’

REMEMBER
this is called PHORM it gathers info about your purchases but with out storing your name address.


Why would targeted advertising be a good form of advertising for heat magazine?
because Heat is generally only bought by the female population aged about 13-30 therefore a guy in his 60's wouldn't be interested.




Kate Moss Rimmel advert:

2. What camera angle has been used and how does it position the audience?

3. Framing: How has the individual/object/scenery been framed? (foreground/background/central figure)

5. What style of typography has been used and why?

6. How has Lighting been used in the advertisement? Is it high-key or low-key or a mixture of both?

8. What are the main signifiers or symbolic codes what do they connote or symbolise and are stereotypes used in any way?

10. Is there a particular dress code that is apparent in the advert? What does the style of dress connote?

11. Is there a tagline evident on the image? What does the tagline infer?

12. Is there any blurb that accompanies the image? Is this persuasive language? What effect does it have?


a low angle close up of Kate moss has been used to make her appear majestic and god like. Kate has been centre aligned and placed at the high end of the advert this again makes her seem majestical and like a queen, the fact that she' placed eye's level with a target in the background makes her appear as if she is something to aim for and the buyer can achieve this aim with the added help of the product. the typography is used to connote royalty and formalness the posh lettering of the logo ad the crown set above the 'R' represents a monarch reigning over a country just like a woman would reign over a club or a restaurant if she was to wear this mascara.

I think kate moss represents a villain in the poster she is wearing a dark cloak style jacket with a very unemotional face as if she is about to do something big yet she isn't affected emotionally by it, she could also be represented as a hero as it could appear she is hear to save the day from bad eyelashes and with her perfect make-up it could connote how composed she is. The advert does pose an enigma as her unexpressional face doesn't reveal anything about her lifestyle

8/10


moving images ie flash element can be used in internet media yet print media isnt possible with flash element, scrolling text is called a bleed, cursor over text is a roll over when it changes colour, hyperlinks obviously



Monday, 22 March 2010

Evaluation

LIVE RADIO EVALUATION

I think we achieved our purpose which was to create a radio show explaining what is in a favorite record we played three each of our favorite records and also played an interview and some views from people around school. I think we achieved it well we showed people exactly what it is in the songs that we like and don't like, we even gave our opinions on the tracks the public mentioned.

-Audience Feedback-

Our audience was younger people aged around 13-25 year olds although older people may also be be interested in the show as the topic was only Favorite music and everybody who listens to music has a favorite song I'm sure.

-Representation Issues-

We tried to give a positive image to every artist and band that were involved in the show., we talked about both their good and bad points between us and explained what we liked and what we didn't thoroughly. We played both male and Female artists/bands though maybe we could of played the extra vocally female track.

-Biased-

Our show did sound realistic for the genre it featured songs, banter, adverts and jingles the right ingredients for an appropriate show.

TECHNICAL ISSUES



Monday, 8 March 2010

Sport on TV

F1

fast cutting for fast paced sport
drone style music at the beginning
music bed represents speed and strings for drama
build in a crescendo style to the main part of the video
close ups of audience as well as long shots
POV shots always to put you in the drivers seat
todorovs theory!!@!!!@!@!!
fire and crashes have connotations of war which is what the sports about grand prix









Studio Broadcast:
Codes and conventions

non-diagetic sound
commentry
motion cameras (tracking shots)
desk
mug of coffee/tea/hot beverage
offices
computers and screens
modern set
cutaways
commentators make things more dramatic using metaphors and such

Outside Broadcast:
Codes and conventions

diagetic sound
cutaways
onscreen graphics scoring box
multi camera
replays
celebration close ups
birds eye views
whole stadium shot



Genres of Sport on TV:

Sport on News.
Sport Relief.
Sport Quiz Shows.
Sports Highlight Shows.
Magazine Programs.

Codes and Conventions:
(What You'd specifically expect from the sport)

Commentator.
Audience.
Replays.
Variety of Camera Angles.

Narrative:
(The story in sports.)

E.G.
Who will win the Premier league.
Players returning to old clubs.

Representions:

Men.
Club Owners and Coaches.
Nationality Stereo types.
Women (But much less on TV.)
Our local/national Identity

Organisations:
Oganisations of sport on TV

Sky Sports.
ESPN.
Pay Per View (Box Office).
ITV.
BBC.

Audiences:
Defined by:

Gender.
Education.
Social class.
Age.

Organizations: TV channels:
Two different kinds of broadcasting:
PSB (Public Service Broadcasting) (BBC 1+2 BBC Radio)
Each one of the regions of Britain will receive different coverage than that of another region. Which gives us a sense of history and identity.

Commercial Broadcasting (Sky,ESPN,ITV)

Why is sport such a big deal on TV?

Because people watch it.
For good ratings on TV.
but mainly to advertise.
It brings communities and nations together.

The advertising revenue generated by slots in major sporting events is massive... often thousands of pounds per second.

Different Types of TV Sport:
Live outside broadcast
Wimbledon
Studio based
Soccer Special
Hybrid
Dancing on Ice
Match of the Day
Street Striker with Wayne Rooney
Soccer AM
Magazine/Talk show/Chat show
Inside Sport
Quiz show
Question of /Sport


Representation of Women/Men

Men are expected to be strong and protective towards their partners. They're meant to be active and powerful. They're obsessed by sex, Lazy and sporty at the same time.

Women on the other hand are represented as being porcelain and fragile. They are considered more domestically capable, they gossip and appearance addicted.

Women in sport on tv.

tennis
swimming
cheerleading
F1 Pit Babes
Boxing (holding up signs)
WAGS (in the stands with the sunglasses on)
Non-Contact sports

Representation of women in sport is not just about the sports they play it is about how they are shown when they are not playing - Women are passive (i.e. the opposite to being active) they are beautiful, sex objects, and generally seen as happy.

1)
Men are referred to as strong about 80% of the time over being described as weak, women on the other hand, in the same sport receive more comments related to weakness than strength simply because they're female.

2)
The coverage difference of women on tv compared to men on tv is huge men are

Mens: more cameras
Woemn: called girls and first names
Women weak men strong
Men: battle war metaphorically.


NATIONAL IDENTITY



Italian Footballer - ate too much pasta so threw up after falling over.

African athlete - fastttttt

english footballer - chelsea retard that likes to get angry when he never scores.

english football supporter - likes to get drunk while watching a load of dumb asses run about on some grass.

National Identity/Cultural historical codes

six nations advert

Scotland - Lion
England - Knight
Wales - Dragon
Ireland - Clover
France - Fighting cock
Italy - Caesar

ashes advert

England are seen as formal and posh whereas the australians are laid back and relaxed, the advert features clips like the london bus where in the background you see the hat on the statue with the corks. The fact that the sharks appear

Ethnicity and Demographics

Black People are portrayed as:
Confident
Natural
Effortless
Predatorily
Wild
African

PSB

Organisations

PSB is broadcasting that rather than benefit from commercials and advertising, they are there for public benefit. BBC is a PSB channel, some of their programs that are majority for public service reasons include: Comic Relief, Songs of Praise, BBC proms, Countryfile, Regional News, Later... With Jools Holland.

Some sports are protected by this PSB scheme:
Wimbledon (BBC)
The World Cup (BBc and ITV)
The Rugby Union 6 Nations (BBC)
The Olympics (Summer and Winter)
The Grand National

Digital TV (funded by advertising made for profit)

Task 1: Find out how many channels there are that are dedicated to sport 24hrs a day?
more than 100

Task 2: Are there any channels that are dedicated to a specific genre of sport?
MUFC TV
Fishing live
...
Task 3: How much did Sky pay for their latest package to broadcast premier league games from 2010-2013?

1.7 Billion ish

Task 4: Which other channel now owns the rights to show live premier league games?


Task 5: How is Sky funded?

Subscription (pay every month)

(PAY PER VIEW)

Advertising

Task 6: Sky even screen some live sporting events at an extra cost to the subscriber. What is this called?

PAY PER VIEW and BOX OFFICE

TASK 7: Are there any channels that are dedicated to one sport or team?

Extension activity: Why might the range of Sky’s products lead to bias in sports reporting




Sky (PayPerView) Sports:

sky box office streams shows such as wrestling and golf on a pay per view scheme where you pay some ridiculous amount of money to watch some people throw each other at some ropes and also you can watch golf.




HOMEWORK:


you are creating a new sports magazine programme aimed at young people

1 look into

NAME
TIME AND CHANNEL
RUNNING ORDER of content

2 code and conventions

non/diagetic sound
presenters

Monday, 9 November 2009

Textual analysis (Levis + Reebok)




What is an advertising agency?
An ad agency is a company with one goal to create and release adverts for their clients they sometimes handle other forms of publicity such as promotional events and such. Other services they provide are buying advertising space (Websites, Magazines, TV) they also fill in reports about how successful their advertising campaigns have been. Some examples of an ad agency are The BBDO who have worked for the mars company (m&m's) and also Mercedes-Benz for their range of vans and also the c class range. Saatchi & Saatchi another ad agency have work with Visa, Head and Shoulders, Guiness, Cadbury's, and Leo Burnett who have work with Macdonalds, Samsung and Nike.

The advertising agency BBH created an advert with Levis in the 80's selling their 501 jeans which contains a clip of a man stripping all but his underwear and socks in a launderette and sitting down next to an older man and two young girls whilst waiting for his clothes to be cleaned. This advertises Levi's shrink to fit features of their jeans. This created a lot of controversy as obviously it contains a man stripping in a public place on public television.

NMI have gone bust now but back when they were a functioning advertisement agency they were the company behind the reebok 50 cent advert this advert was banned from public television as it contained 50 cent laughing at the quote "tell me what do you plan to massacre next" and also it features 50 cent him self counting up to 9 after hearing that he got shot 9 times. This associates reebok with gun violence and street massacres, I'm sure when reebok saw this they weren't happy with it; this advert got banned so there was no chance of a TV viewing of this advert anyway.

Regulation control

The ASA an advertising regulatory company who work with claims on a number of different media from radio adverts to cinema screen adverts, basically what happens is they let all the adverts get broadcasted and distributed but if then a complaint is made they will cease the action and investigate this certain case before (generally) asking the publishers to amend the publication or discontinue. they are also the people behind the advertising codes to help keep offensive and harmful advertising not on the TV screens of the easily offended.

The advertising codes are meant to let viewers to not get offended and for to stop small children getting scared or offended by the acts on these adverts, another reason for the ASA is that if younger children saw violent behavior they might emulate it. These codes are used to judge whether or not adverts are telling lies, causing harm or even offence. An example is (the first part of section 6: harm and offence) [The rules in this Section (and in 7.4: Harm and Distress to Children) are intended to prevent advertising leading to harm. They are also to prevent advertising causing offence to viewers generally or to particular groups in society (for example by causing significant distress, disgust or insult, or by offending against widespread public feeling).

The ASA and BCAP will not act, however, where advertising is simply criticised for not being in ‘good taste’ unless the material also offends against generally accepted moral, social or cultural standards. Apart from freedom of speech considerations, there are often large and sometimes contradictory differences in views about what constitutes ‘bad taste’ or what should be deplored. Nevertheless, licensees may wish to make judgements about matters of taste in order to cater for their particular audiences.

The advertisement of 50 Cent and reebok is a good example of a banned advert, it features 50 Cent sat in a large dark room with samples of people talking of his past "gunned down” and “taken to Jamaica hospital” are just some of the samples played in the advert. The words "shot nine times" are mentioned then you hear 50 Cent counting slowly from one to nine. this causes offense because it glamorizes gun crime and children may emulate this.

The advertisement of the Levis with the man 'stripping' caused a lot of controversy back in the day because it features a man stripping to his pants and sitting down next to an older man and two young girls. This would have been complained about because its not an every day occurance to the public and i'm sure parents back then didn't want their children to see this on tv every ad break.

Marketing and Promotion

The Levi and Reebok adverts have still succeeded in pulling in views and working as an advertisement despite being banned/controversial. Just as the 'warning containing explicit material' on CDs does a lot for artists trying to appear 'hard' and 'bad-ass'. The controversial aspect of the adverts instantly makes teenagers think that the values reflect their own and they scour the internet in search of his advert so they can talk about it some more to their friends which is also viral marketing.


Reebok advert and Levi advert

The lines of appeal that are used in the reebok are self importance and pride and successful lifestyles. Self importance and pride is featured through the slogan of the advert 'i am what i am.' This is meant to show that he believes in himself despite what has happened in his past. Successful lifestyles are referred to through the mention of his hip hop award and the fact that the audience know he is a famous and wealthy celebrity. Some of the power factors used in the advert are coercive power and star power. Coercive power is used as 50 cent looks deep into the camera just after he laughs at the fact somone asks him "who are you going to massacre next". his aggressive facial expression suggests if we don't buy into this something bad will happen. This is also star power as it has 50 cent in it. The audience for this advert are probably teenagers and younger adults probably 14-25 year olds that are into the sporting community and/or the hip-hop/rap culture. The camera angles featured in the 50 Cent advert are establishing shots to show his background as a person, long distance shots are showed as well slowly approaching shot into his face and hitting his face at a low angle to show he's powerful then us. Alot that if you bought the product maybe it would bring you up to his level. At the start there is a lot of fast cutting clips about 5/6 of them of a rainy street; the shoes on the telegraph lines; the train running by and so on.

The lines of appeal that are used in the Levi advert is beautiful people (The male in the launderette) this is shown as when he enters the room and takes off his clothes, he’s quite comfortable with the fact he’s got no clothes on which shows he’s confident with his body.Also, like the Reebok advert, this contains the line of appeal successful lifestyles this is linked with beautiful people in that being beautiful and attractive makes him successful in life.It also associates Some of the powers featured in the advert are reward power as the advert makes you believe if you buy some of these jeans you will look and attract women like this man does. The target audience for this advert is probably 14-25 year olds which coincidently is people you would associate with regular clothes shoppers. And women of all ages will enjoy this advert obviously for the man more than the jeans


REEBOK

This advert unlike the Levi one has very fast cutting camera shots at the beginning aswell as the few establishing shots that are included but then after this, the shots change to inside a warehouse where there is one constant shot for a good thirty five or more seconds then an extreme close up of 50 cent is introduced but quickly fades out to the same zooming motion as before he chuckles at a quote then the shot accelerates in gradient as a low angle shot connotes that 50 cent is mighty and to fear, that then fades out to the reebok RBK logo. The music bed in the Reebok advert is quite a relaxed yet dark and sinister RnB track with a slow tempo to connote the calmness of 50 cent. There are many sound fx in the Reebok advert with 50 Cent including sirens to connote the fact he's in trouble with the police alot samples from radio or tv; the sound of a vinyl rewinding audibly connoting the hip hop culture. The cultural codes in this advert are introduced with his wearing of the bandana underneath his hat to connote gang life and violence. Uses and gratification theory can be applied to this advert, this advert can be seen as a diversion because the majority don't live a life like 50 cent does, it could also seen as personal relationships as boys will go to school the next day and talk to their friends about it.

LEVI

The beginning to the Levi advert shows and establishing shot of a car driving past the laundrette, where of course the advert is set, then as the advert moves inside the shots become closer with close up's of faces but with still some room for wide shots. The shots vary in angle and distance but almost every shot refers back to the focus of the advert the shrink to fit feature and also the public amazed response to the man. The music bed in the Levi advert is very cool and smooth it fits the theme of the advert because it represents a cool and collected character also the music bed is non diegetic this os obvious because the only sound from the advert is the sound so it makes a clear gap between the set and the music. The music appeals to the target audience because it is an American classic just as the designer: Levi is also. There aren't many sound effects in the Levi's advert probably to keep the advert quite firmly attached to the ground and to create an average and 'for everybody' advert.

Males are used in this advert because we are meant to see this man as a role model this man is a stereotype as well. The cultural codes are shown through his wayfarer sunglasses and his combed back hair these connote the urban man who is cool and stylish. Uses and gratification theory can be applied to this advert in that this advert can be seen as a diversion because most people will either want to be him or want to be with him, it could also seen as personal relationships as young girls will talk about the man who took his clothes off on tv at their college or school.




Self Reflection