Robert's Media Blog

Exam Question: in the water aid advert its direct and has a straight point, this is shown by the setting and the characters, the setting is set in Africa to show that the people of Britain need to open their eyes as there are other problems in the world. The water aid advert potions the audience to show what will happen when they help and what an impact their small donation can do. The water aid advert is upbeat and more happier as it has signing people smiling and people playing. as the advert goes on it gets more and more happier as more people join in. in the save the children advert it is more emotional manipulation as it uses a young child on her birthday as a birthday is meant to be magical time and not a time to be scared and destruction. in the save the children adverts we are set in a. war zone Britain. we start of in a. comfy house but as the advert goes on we get more and more depressing. this advert works better as it hits closer to home for British people as it uses th...

The target audience for this advert is targeted at all ages and genders, the country they have targeted it at is every country that ins't in poverty. We know that it is targeted at everyone is because it uses pop music to relate to younger audience and it uses the visuals to get the older generation involved. There are all genders in the advert to show that it is effected by everyone and not just one gender. The landscape of Africa in the advert is shown as beautiful but dry, with hard working people who work in the blazing sun, they do this as is is emotional manipulation as it show that we are more privileged than them as we have all accesses to water and we do not have to do labour in the blazing sun. it also shows that their country is drying as plants wont be able to grow with the lack of water, the African people are represented as happy and dull with joy, the reason for this is because they get water. we know that they had to travel far to get but them being happy over ...

Riptide Analysis/ question: Vance Joy is an indie artist, an indie artist is someone who is "independent" in their music,  this means that they have no major record and are singed to a small record label. Indie has a do it yourself approach with low budget, not like major record labels Indie artist are more underground and art known much is a little following. In indie their is different genres foe example alternative rock witch is mainly white straight Maes witch is guitar based. The genres for riptide is Indie folk indie pop. James Keogh, known as Vance Joy wrote and produced this song. `the song is from the album god loves when you're dancing and dream your life away. the indie pop genre is generally targeted at audience members at the age of 16-22. The reason it is becoming popular is due to the record labels releasing snippets of information about up coming artists and new songs to entice the audience to watch or listen to their music. These are popula...

Advertising, Here are 5 slogans that a lot of people know: Nike – “Just Do It” Apple – “Think Different” L'Oreal – “Because You're Worth It” KFC – “It's Finger Lickin' Good” Coco- Cola – “Share A Coke” st john ambulance uses shock tactics to grab the viewers attention and to make them synthesise, the way they have done this is by using a child and showing them in a life threatening tacit, the reason this is shocking is because it relates to parents as they would dread to see their child like this, this makes the viewer get involved into the product they are trying to sell they also use emotional music to make you give empathy, they used the classic slow and emotional music too, they use emotional wording too to make the viewer empathise more. child death is an emotional topic so this advert would work well. This video stereotypes both men and women, in this advert women are represented as being useless and not being able to do "mens" wor...

Dizzee Rascal Dylan Kwabena Mill, or known as Dizzee Rascal, was born in September 18th 1984. Dylan is known for being a British rapper and record producer. His music involves, Grime, R&B, British hip hop and UK Garage. He released his first album called "Boy In Da Corner" in 2003, this would earn him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Dylan was born in Bow London and his father had died when he was young, his mother was a single rising parent. When Dylan was young he "violent and disruptive" , his mother had to move him a lot of schools because of the fighting and being removed. He got the name rascal as that would be what bis teachers called him when he behaved badly. Rascal's youth consisted of, fighting teachers, grand thief auto and robbing pizza men. In one of his schools, he was removed from every class except music, he created music on the schools computers and was encouraged by his music teacher and in the summer went to a music workshop...

Representations  In Media: Media representations are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. Stereotypes: A stereotype is a mistaken belief of a race, gender and age based on the media, stereotypes are seen as racist and bias as they have strong beliefs against a race for no reason at all beside the media brain washing people. The Robbie Thicke music video 'blurred lines'  stereotypes women as sex objects and the men having all the power.  Robbie Thicke has the models stare blankly intro the camera or has them not in the centre of focus, he does this to show that they are only objects for him to toy with, moreover he gets them to do this to show that he is in control and he has the power, this links back to the 50s then when would control women and the stereotypical woman had to listen and do anything that they are told to do by the man, this links to m...