Denotation & Connotation blog tasks: advert analysis

 

Create a new blogpost in your GCSE Media blog called 'Denotation and connotation'.

1) Write an analysis of the WaterAid advert above using denotation, connotation and analysis. What can you see? What are the deeper meanings in the advert? What does the advert communicate to the audience? How might an audience react after seeing the advert?   In this Water Aid advert you can their is a boy who looking at the camera. You can also see in the backround the boy is in a poor area. CONNOTATION :You can see the boy look distrought you can also see that water aid are tryna  show us that we should dononate and make us feel bad

which is why they would put a boy who looks sad so it can people hearts so they could donoate.

 

2) Now choose your own choice of advert from Google images. Save it to your documents, insert it into your blogpost and write an analysis using denotation and connotation, explaining what the advert is communicating to the audience.

Extension: Print advert research

Read this design blog on some of the best print adverts of all time. Choose one advert that you feel is particularly powerful in terms of its use of connotations and analyse why it is so successful