1. Add to / improve / start again: your analysis of the Tide advert set text.
If you have handed in what you wrote today, I will get it back to you before the weekend.
2. a/ Look at the WaterAid advert below (set text) and make notes using the theoretical framework:
b/ Look at and make notes on the advert below, also from WaterAid:
Another WaterAid advert can be found below; it deploys a different strategy. Watch it and, if you can, watch other ones from different campaigns though the years to gain some understanding of WaterAid advertising strategies:
PLEASE BRING YOUR NOTES TO THE LESSON NEXT WEEK.
If you want to get ahead, write a comparative essay focusing on the set text and another advert, exploring narratives and representations created in the adverts.
To put things in perspective - and think about different readings of these adverts - please have a look at these parodies... They make the point beautifully and in a funny way:
Now dust off your post-colonialist readings of the texts above!
And for a bit of light relief... Here's Trevor Noah's spoof:
3. Read Chapter 4 from Gauntlett distributed in class. Spread out the reading if necessary. Aim for a side of notes and bring to class next week.
4. Ahead of next week, you might also want to prepare by watching the video below (feminist theorists) and reading the (very brief) article linked here too:
A Brief History: The Three Waves of Feminism
There are so many interesting videos online about feminism and feminist theory. Do use your initiative and go explore!
KEEP REVISITING PREVIOUS READING AND VIDEOS - FOR EXAMPLE, THE LONGER CHAPTER ON REPRESENTATION YOU WERE GIVEN A FEW WEEKS AGO.
And remember to find the best possible way of organising your folders.
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