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The meaning of a picture results in different opinions from many viewers. These images, such as artwork and advertisement, have become a source of communication in this new age of society. The advertisement I chose was a Coach perfume advertisement, a popular brand marketed towards women. This advertisement has a combination of physical features: lighting, text, and camera angles. These provoke an emotional appeal received by pampering with the perfume and gathering a sensation of love and peace, causing the audience to buy this product. A woman is born a nurturing loving creature. The world can make a woman harsh and intimidating, but when wearing this perfume it brings out the natural essence and reminds women of their true power but also …show more content…
Her very warm outfit gives the picture a sense of emotion that can affect the audience outlook of the perfume on oneself. The lighting filter emphasizes shades shown by the product notifying that this is the best a woman can receive. The lighting looks to be coming from the sun angled downward on the woman and, the field of flowers colors’ blends in to give the flowers a more delicate look as women would look at them. The flowers’ colors have similar warmth matching the lighting. If the colors were to be an off color not matching the lighting, the photo would lose its focus of the warm tone the advertisement is bringing because of the different tone the color brings. The lighting on to the flowers causes the flowers to pop out more than other items due to the slight color difference; this pop out affection connects to the perfume name “poppy.” The lighting makes her stand out, making her the overall focus. The audience grabs an idea of how the flowers smell and wants to be involved in the peace that her body language portrays. The woman when wearing this perfume receives that power but still have a gentle image. The lighting being her power, which causes her to stand out, gives the audience a reason to receive the strong light in their life also. Women are expected to be loving and peaceful people to maintain an image for society, but also wants to have a powerful structure, however it’s hard to not be perceived as overly dominate woman living up to myths , that a good life consists of buying possessions and our body is not good enough toward
...he experiences of others. My interpretation of the image representing the perfume is it constitutes a sense of ownership to acquire the themes presented in the “A Love Story by Ralph Lauren” .This is done by placing the images of the man and the woman adjacent to the perfume which in fact establishes romance and aesthetics, a sense of beauty. The background that illustrates the images of the couple in the love story alludes to a colorful dramatic representation of bliss and radiant light. The background of the perfume also displays a white background throughout this allows more light to reflect on the product. Finally, in my opinion both of the images presented in the photograph fulfills the role that the advertisers of the product wishes incorporates. It captures our willingness to believe in such an existence even if our present reality express the opposite.
The composition of this painting forces the eye to the woman, and specifically to her face. Although the white wedding dress is large and takes up most of the woman’s figure, the white contrasts with her face and dark hair, forcing the viewer to look more closely into the woman’s face. She smokes a cigarette and rests her chin on her hands. She does not appear to be a very young woman and her eyes are cast down and seem sad. In general, her face appears to show a sense of disillusionment with life and specifically with her own life. Although this is apparently her wedding day, she does not seem to be happy.
Visual advertisements are straight and to the point for some people. People do not take into account the visual messaging going on throughout the ad. It takes companies a considerable amount of time to create advertisements that are somewhat appealing to the human eye. By adding bright colors and large letters the ad will grab anyone’s attention. In fact, people will be able to see it and read it from a distance better. To show that there are many of small details in a visual advertisement, look at the Old Spice Matterhorn shower gel advertisement.
What captures the attention of people when they view an advertisement, commercial or poster? Is it the colors, a captivating phrase or the people pictured? While these are some of the elements often employed in advertising, we can look deeper and analyze the types of appeals that are utilized to draw attention to certain advertisements. The persuasive methods used can be classified into three modes. These modes are pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos makes an appeal to emotions, logos appeals to logic or reason and ethos makes an appeal of character or credibility. Each appeal can give support to the message that is being promoted.
The first point is the advertisement has an effective pathos. The picture describes the emotions on people who are smoking. It shows a man who is dying from smoking, which has a bad health. The picture will keep the person think about the emotions or feeling for the people who smoke. The advertisement shows that smoking will lead to many diseases
Have you ever seen an advertisement for a product and could immediately relate to the subject or the product in that advertisement? Companies that sell products are always trying to find new and interesting ways to get buyers and get people’s attention. It has become a part of our society today to always have products being shown to them. As claimed in Elizabeth Thoman’s essay Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream, “…advertising offered instructions on how to dress, how to behave, how to appear to others in order to gain approval and avoid rejection”. This statement is true because most of the time buyers are persuaded by ads for certain products.
In this essay I will describe an image taken from an advert and use visual methodological approach to analyse and depict the different set of meanings produced by this image. In order to explicate my ideas I will provide a brief outline of the picture. Then, I will describe a number of coded and non coded meanings and how the advert is employing a range of signifiers to communicate messages to the consumer and reinforce the brand identity. (Barthes 1972)
The author creates imagery for her readres to visualize her perspective. Didge conveys in her essay “Flowery and beautiful, it
Representation is a complex concept in which we try to understand how the media constructs its messages and how audiences respond to that message. For this essay I will be looking at the way in which women are represented in the Britney Spears' Fantasy perfume advertisement, and the 2011 Coco Mademoiselle advertisement featuring Keira Knightly.
Tom Ford’s advertisements and commercials represent an example of how gender inequality is present in today’s society. The effectiveness of sex appeal is used throughout, especially in commercial advertisements. An advertisement that can be analyzed through semiotics is Tom Ford’s lipstick commercial. He uses women as sex objects to endorse luxury products like lipstick. The colours, clothing, and theme in the commercials enhance the products. In the commercial there are various women kissing men. The men are dressed in tuxedos while the women reveal skin in the clothes they are wearing. The message in this advertisement shows lip biting, kissing, and instances of men smiling to show pleasure. It is saying that flirting and seeking sexual
The models wrist shows that she is wearing a bracelet that is purple and studded, and it glistens in the light. This shows the audience that she is a sophisticated and glamorous woman. As anything else in this advertisement, the bracelet and the city scape are placed above the women’s eyes. This shows a vibrant atmosphere that is correlated with the target market. This would further enhance women to buy the Maybelline mascara. As advertisements are used to shape the ideologies of the audience, this Maybelline mascara ad stresses a myth that city women who use the mascara are glamorous and sophisticated. The written signs of the advertisement are just as important as all other aspects. The written signs shown in the advertisement are just like the symbolic signs in that they come together to show the ideologies of how women think they ought to look like. There slogan in the advertisement “It’s not a mascara, it’s false lash glam in a tube, instantly!” doesn’t let the audience believe that thee mascara will cover up imperfections, but it consumers can use it as an accessory to accentuate the eyelashes, giving them a bold and feminine
To be efficient, it must correspond to products and be relevant to people, expressing and sustaining competitive advantages. My image appears in Glamour, a specialized publication for women, where the cultural context is gender, thus providing a greater degree of authority and the intention is to promote the reputation and sales of the perfume. The image is a collection of signs, these signs may include paradigmatic and systematic elements such as the name of the perfume, the fonts used, the colors or the woman which appears with a green apple in her hand. ‘The goal of semiotics in the study of advertising is, ultimately, to unmask the arrays of hidden meanings in the underlying level, which form what can be called signification systems’ (Beasley et.all, 2002: 20). It is obvious that in the interpretation of an image controversies can arise and the meaning could be different from person to person due to the cultural level or ways of image analysis, because the reader approaches an image from a personal ideological perspective.
Images are a powerful force in advertising as they are the ones that promote different perceptions and attitudes towards products. They are also the ones that create stereotypes. They are very manipulative, for they will never focus on the negative things that are associated with their products, only the positive ones. Advertisements are ambitious which gives them power, and engage customers for their approval.
When I first saw the Candies fragrance ad, I immediately had a perception of its entire meaning. It is interesting to see how the advertisers for this particular advertisement try to pull people in and buy their product. This ad is an example of the sexual influence on our society s marketing strategies. We tend to deny that sexual influence has become a mainstream market in our society but if you look through an every day magazine you begin to notice how extreme it really is.
Products often promote things that are valued by everyone such as happiness, romance, sex and other things that most people desire. Images often vary as product images do, but many of them play on what that target population wants as a whole. Everyone wants to be happy and self confident in everything they do, and this can be seen in ads of every kind.