Friday, 14 March 2014

Unit 5 Outcome 1


The format off the EE brief is quite formal as they're telling you want they want and it's written in a professional way in comparison to the Barclays one which is more informal as it's in more of a note form and they just want us to make the 5 million young futures campaign famous.

The IBM brief is also informal as it's written in bullet points and it's illustrated with cartoon pictures. 
They are all competitive because more than one group of people will be making adverts for them but in our class it is only the EE brief that is competitive because we are the only group that has decided to do the barclays brief in our class.

The message of the EE brief was the most explicit and it firmly told us what they wanted so this one wouldn't really be open for negotiation as they just want an advert that promotes how good 4G is.

The IBM brief is the most open to negotiation as they just want an advert that promotes the business as not many people know who they are. The message wasn't very clear and we weren't familiar with the brand and because the brief wasn't very structured we didn't go with this one.

The message of the Barclays brief was quite implicit and not as clear as the EE one as it was more informal and wasn't in as much detail. It is open for negotiation as it's not set in stone and they're flexible with the content as long as the 5 million young futures campaign is featured.

As a media professional, the briefs offer us a place on The Ladder and will give us new skills and experience which will be useful for future projects. 

We went with the Barclays brief and we picked it because it's quite vague and but gave us the opportunity to get creative and use our imagination to make it our own. It gave us guidelines and as long as we based the ad around the idea of 5,000,000 we could interpret it however we wanted to. 
 The cons are that it is quite brief and it didn't give us much to go off and the topic is quite predictable and we needed to make it as unique and upbeat as possible.

We're the right team to produce an advert for Barclays because  we are young so we can have fresh take on what the audience will find interesting and we work well as a team and incorporate all of our ideas together. We wanted a challenge so this appeals to us as noone else is doing it, it's an open brief and will set us apart from the other groups. We've looked at past adverts from Barclays their more recent advert has featured a talking animal so we thought of a way  to put our own spin on it by using a tortoise. This will represent how barclays are slowly but surly changing 5 million lives. Music is also a key part in barclays adverts for example the barclays waterslide advert music is a key feature in this advert. We want to use don't stop me now by queen, this will be comical because it is ironic.

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Thursday, 13 March 2014

Progress Review

I think i've worked well on unit 6, i've always met deadlines and i'm happy with the grades I got and use the brief the majority of the time
I work better at home as in class I can get distracted easily and I get it done quicker when i'm on my own. I try to write a lot in my assignments but sometimes I feel like I could write more
After finishing the course I want to go to uni and do something media related but i'm not 100% which course

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Unit 30 - Advertising Production and Unit 5 - Working To A Brief

The format.
Briefs can take a variety of forms.

  • Contractual - formal, binding, detailed
  • Formal - written, professional, signed
  • Informal - verbal, note form
  • Cooperative - work together with client
  • Competitive - in competition with another producer to win a commission 
  • You need to read briefs thoroughly
  • Need to work out what the company is asking you to do
  • Explicit (obvious) or implicit (not obvious/subtle) message
Negotiation.
Lots depends on the client.
  • Zero negotiation - they will tell you exactly what you want
  • You might not get the opportunity to discuss the brief
  • The brief may be open to some sort of negotiation
  • Creative negotiation - you might be able to interpret the brief in a variety of ways 
  • You may be able to negotiate the fee 
Opportunities.
  • A brief can help you to identify opportunities for your personal development
  • You may learn new technical skills
  • You could learn how to communicate in a professional manner  
  • You can develop your negotiating skills 

Monday, 3 March 2014

Pair Task

Selling the benefits




Better than others




  1. They're both selling a product and saying that theirs is better than others. The Aldi advert compares two different brands with the prices whereas the Neutrogena ad is just selling one product and promoting its good points.
  2. Neautrogena used Vanessa Hudgens who was very popular when the ad came out, celebrity endorsement helps with sales. Aldi is comparing prices and names of other brands so the audience knows thats their product tastes good and is cheaper than leading more expensive companies.
  3. Selling the benefits works best for me because you want to see how good a product is and the good points of it/how it works so I know if it's a product worth buying. 

Unit 30, Advertising

Techniques: Overt - obvious / Hidden - not obvious / Emotional Responses 

Overt

Shows the drink during the advert
Has the product name in the jingle
You can clearly see what it's promoting


Hidden



Doesn't show anything that would make you think it's advertising Mercedes
Has the brand name at the end
Makes you laugh
The song has no relevance to the product


Emotional response technique

Mcvities Advert
Makes us feel happy, think it's cute

Frank Advert
Amusing, uncomfortable, bit disgusted

Pancreatic Cancer Advert
Used slow music, colour wash
Makes us sad, shocked

Guinness Advert
Supposed to make the brand look excited, make us want a pint, for adrenaline junkies

Jaguar Advert
Excites us, hooks us with celebrity endorsement,

Speed Advert
Makes you realise, feel tense, helpless, makes us think "that could be you"
Uses colour washes, dialogue is delivered to have an affect on us

Analysing the advert
Characteristics
  • Selling the benefits
  • Better than others
  • Highlight USP - unique selling point 
  • Sell lifestyle
Structure
Codes and conventions - things we expect to see
Adverts can come in different forms; narrative, animation, documentary, talking head, stand alone, series.

Colgate ad - talking heads, documentary
BT Infinity ad - series, narrative 

Style
An advert can be humorous, surreal, dramatic, parodic (parody) 

Body spray ad - humorous, parody of a music video, surreal

Orangina ad

The style of the orangina advert is surreal. We know this because of the bear costume and the fact he's wearing beach shorts. He's also on the setting on a beach and is holding props like a paddle and the product. 
It's also humorous because of the sound at the end, it's a celebration jingle and a man just got hit with a satellite. 
The form of the advert is a narrative. We know this because we follow a story of a man and bear playing beach tennis and as the advert goes on we see how the prop which is the product has an impact on how they play. The man who doesn't drink it is unlucky and gets hit by a satellite.

The orangina advert uses the characteristics of selling the lifestyle. We know this because they're having fun on the beach in the advert so it's selling the idea that if you have the drink then you will be a part of the quirky lifestyle and you will be good at beach tennis. 


  • Narrative
  • Animation
  • Documentary
  • Talking Heads
  • Stand Alone
  • Series