Blog Post #5

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How are drugs portrayed in this video?
-What tools do the authors use to modify how a person may receive the message?
-What other details are you seeing or hearing that may further modify how viewers receive the portrayal of drugs?

Does there appear to be a target audience?
Are there suggestions that may attempt to identify the type of people who becomes active in the involvement of drugs, if so, what are they and how are they implied?
Is there a relationship between the two actors having fun among themselves and the business that may appear to be failing?

Blog Post #5

I found this poster when I googled "anti-drug posters" on google images. I chose this poster because I felt like it can be interpreted in many different ways. It is saying that drugs are bad for people in a unique way.

Questions:

1. Why is "cool" spelled out in cigarettes? 
2. Does this poster have a strong or weak message by just using words instead of showing the affects on a human being?
3. What demographic is this poster targeting?
4. How is pathos used in this ad?
5. Does the background impact the message in any way?

Blog Group 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YjrkBYDDQM

This is an anti-smoking commercial in which a woman clearly affected by nicotine expresses her sincere concern for nicotine addicts.

Blog Prompts:

1) Does the woman's appearance directly affect the commercial? How so?

2) What demographics does this commercial target?

3) Is there anything else this commercial can do to make nicotine addicts more aware of their addiction?

4) Is this commercial to graphic? Does it diminish the commercial's main point at all?

5)If you were a nicotine addict would this commercial persuade you to stop smoking? If so, why?

Facilitator Group 4

I found this advertisement by typing "anti drug campaign" into Google. I chose this poster because it focuses on a different drug than we usually discuss in class and it focuses on the effects of the drug rather than just saying not to do it.

Discussion Questions

1) What is the effect of the poster not specifically saying "don't do this" but instead just saying "not even once"?

2) How does this poster try use pathos to appeal to the audience?

3) Why did the creator only chose to show one of the girls affected physically by meth?

4) How does the creator use gender to catch the audiences attention?

Facilitator Group 4

I chose this piece because I have had previous situations where my friends have had to tell their parents where they are at all times before being permitted to go somewhere. I'm also sure that as students, we have all faced a similar situation where our guardians have asked us more questions than we felt were necessary.
Discussion questions:
Why does the creator choose the color scheme for the photo?
How does the use of a child (someone too young to have a driver's licence) help amplify the effect of this image?
How does the setting of the image affect its impact?
In what ways do the features of the image (child, bicycle, background) frame the setting of the photo?

Facilitator Group #4

I found this ad while searching for an ad online to show the possible effects of prescription drug abuse. I feel that this is a good representation of how much one can say with such a simple picture, which is why I chose to use this as my topic.

1. What is your initial feeling just after you see the word death. How about after seeing Rx?

2. Why do you think the person who created this ad chose to put death in white and Rx in red?

3. What might the goal of the creator be in terms how this ad affects you?

4. If the ad uses logos, ethos, and/or pathos which one is used and how is it represented?

5. Do you think that this ad might be more effective at getting the author's intended message around than an ad that might be more complex? Why?

Blog Group # 4

 

 

Above the Influence | Sick

I first saw this commercial on television. It is an anti-alcohol abuse ad focused on teenagers. I chose it because I thought it was an interesting way to present an anti alcohol ad. It paints drinking in a negative light during the entire ad.  I feel that it has a powerful message against underage drinking.

 

1)      Does the female’s appearance (runny make-up, disheveled clothes etc) have significance in the overall message of the ad?

2)      What is the significance of using a female getting sick rather than a male? If it had been a male stumbling into the stall, would you have the same reaction to the commercial?

3)      Is the producer of the commercial trying to say anything by not having any actual words spoken in the ad?

4)      Could this ad be targeting an age group other than teens?

5)    Does the overall setting/ atmosphere contribute to the message of the ad?