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Advertising Revision (Component 1 Section B) (WATERAID and TIDE)

Kiss of the Vampire  will not show up in Component 2 Section b. only AUDIENCE not INDUSTRY questions will come up. 

How do the adverts you have studied appeal to a range of specialised and generalised audiences?

Knee Jerk 
Primarily in the adverts i have studied appeal to a more generalised target audience 

Plan 
Sociohistorical context
Mise en Scene
Ideology
Z line 
Binary Opposition 
Stuart Hall Reception theory (PNO) 
Lighting 
Stereotypes 
Narrative 1950's
Gauntlet - pick and mix theory 
Feminism as a selling point?




Tide 
Targeting mainstream ideology of a females role, targets generalised female audience. 
Mise en scene of makeup - reinforces hegemonic paradigms and targets the mainstream female target audience
Colouring - red = passion, love ; white = pure, innocence, cleanliness
Clothing - simple and understated, headcloth and apron which are relatable to the target audience 
Positioning - Close up hugging the box (love) 
Positioning - audience positioned 
Sociohistorical context - 1950's American company, STEREOTYPE women as housewives e.g. do cleaning. 
Lexis - superlatives create sensationalist and hyperbolic "cleanest" "whiteset" the best version
Comic book panel style reinforces mass marketing and mainstream potential 





WaterAid
Sociohistorical context - Africa is a third world country, poor and lack of basic amenities and resources e.g. water, hygeine 
Opening shot - instantly relatable of a drab rainy British afternoon, radio show is a British radio show  audiences able to identify with the advert. Generalised white, middle class(?) British audience. 
binary opposition ^ between England and Africa
Next shot - Hard cut to African setting to position audience with a hard cut pov tracking shot, positions audiences in an escapist fantasy 
Audiences anchored through mise en scene and slow paced editing to sympathise with gentle claudia, reinforcing the ideological perspective that the audience should help her 
Hopeful tone - bright coloured buckets, children laughing. Allows audiences pleasure of 'saving' the fragile in Africa rather than guilt-tripping .
Postcolonial theory - Paul Gilroy. Choice is made to represent a small and impoverished rural community rather than an urban environment 
WaterAid advert distributed through digital online media and reach a large generalised audience. 
Lexis at the end of the advert in in English - targets British audience. Singing in English, targets british audience. 
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