The Most Effective Form of Media
There are many different types of media. The media is things like:
televisions, newspapers, magazines, radio, internet, cinema, phones
and many more. Media is important because it influences people to buy
products. They are very affective and appeal to many people.
Adverts are things that show certain products and try to get you to
buy them. The purpose of adverts is to make you buy the products being
advertised so they can make a profit. Companies spend a lot of money
on adverts because if the adverts are perfect the product’s sales will
be much higher than when the product isn’t advertised. We find adverts
everywhere you find them on the television, radio and the internet.
You also get them in magazines, newspapers, football grounds and on
the players shirts. You even get them in public toilets because when
you are in there they might just catch your eye and they may interest
you.
Adverts try to persuade us to buy their products by using different
persuasive techniques. The persuasive techniques that are used are
things like: slogans and logos, pictures, layout of the advertisement,
the use of statistics and many more. Adverts also use hidden
persuaders which are like persuasive techniques, but they are
disguised. Hidden persuaders are things that are used like: addressing
the audience directly, personalising it and celebrities because if
they are using it, it will be a good product. Sex appeal and use of
striking colours are also used and if a few of these techniques are
used the advert will be a fairly good advert.
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addressing the reader directly. I think this is the most effective
technique because it makes you feel as if you’re there.
Media is influential because it is in our lives every day, and it is
also very interesting. I think the best way of advertising is on
television, even though I said the Baileys advert was the best, but
this was because I did not like the L’Oral shampoo advert as much. I
think television is the best way to advertise because you get the most
techniques and cover nearly every aspect. The only aspect of
television advertising that is poor is that there is a limited time,
and you may not quiet catch the telephone number or completely read
what the small print says, so you have to wait for it to come on
again. This means that I think the most effective form of media
advertising is by television.
New Product Our product was born out of a need and from the experience of Chris Parise.
If people don’t get the mature vibe form the dress she’s wearing that’s okay because the product is new. They may just like the fact that the product is new and they just want to try them out to see what the big hype is. I don’t smoke but I know when I see something new out on the market like clothes and shoes, or food, I like to try and buy it or get someone else to buy it for me.
The makers of this commercial intended the audience to be teenagers and young adults. The values used were sex appeal (of one of the...
There are many companies that use sex appeal in their ads today. For instance Victoria Secrets is one of the top sellers in lingerie. They show skin in every one of their ads. All of their models put on the sex appeal for all commercials and magazines. That is what helps them sell. Women look at those ads and see those girls floating on clouds like angels and feel they could feel the same if they wore that purple bra or red underwear. By showing these girls constantly looking sexy in their ads make women feel sexy just wearing them. That is the whole point of using sex in your ads. It?s amazing what a little skin can do. "In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex (Richards).
As Terry Crews makes his entrance this is almost shown, as Crews is shown wearing nothing but red shorts this color is the meaning of fire and passion, but still has the bland background. Towards the end of the commercial, during the product placement, the color scheme changes to bland white shower tiles in the locker room. Also within this the name of the product is in white while the sub-line “Smell Is Power” is highlighted in red and yellow, Also it has the red cans of body spray under the subheading to try and push the power meaning more. To finish the commercial off they show Crews one more time with an explosion in the background further showing the color of power. Overall the advertisement I thought was a failure.
Mental illness can be defined as a variety of disorders within the brain that can affect an individual’s mood, way of thinking and behaviour. These illnesses are caused by biological, psychological and sociological influences. Mental illnesses have become more prominent throughout communities while the seeking for help or a cure has appeared to become less evident. In today’s society, mental illnesses are portrayed through various media platforms in a way that causes such a stigma around the illness that it affects those who suffer almost as much as the illness itself.
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When I envision living life without Social Networking, I envision more time to think about important things, not status updates or how many likes I may get on a certain post. I see myself being satisfied with what I have, where I am, and who I am. After experiencing a fast from social media I became aware of the negative and dangerous effects it had on myself and relationships I had with others. Social networking occupied and numbed me from reality, it was a treacherous resting place. Life is more than getting a certain amount of likes or having a certain amount of followers. As defined: social networking is the use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself. The definition sounds innocent, but what it doesn’t include is the addiction it brings that holds you captive without being aware.
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mother with one goal in life. To find a husband. This is because if Mr
Some of my skills in media include: identifying different media conventions such as colour and fonts, identifying the purpose and the main message of a piece of media and identifying the purpose of a media.
Nowadays, the popularity of these media is more to electronic media than printed media because their trying to dominate each other. A printed media have its own importance and popularity which cannot be replaced by anyone else. When though there is a tight competition between the newspapers and electronics medium among variety of newspapers increasing day to day which has made the print media cheaper, qualitative, informative and fast. The printed media is more accurate information details. The electronic media just hire people based on looks rather than journalism skills because the journalists and editor of newspapers are more efficient and experienced. The utility of print media will always remain informative to help the user. Printed media on deeper research of particular topic