Friday 15 March 2013

marketing media


Date: 04/03/13

Present: Molly Puckey, Lucy Gauron, Firdowsa Jama, Meng Shuang Weng, Taamilia James

Item (what you are discussing)
Actions (ideas that were discussed with final decisions highlighted in yellow)
List of who is in your group and information about your company: name and contact details.
Molly Puckey, Lucy Gauron, Firdowsa Jama, Meng Shuang Weng, Taamilia James
Company name: Pulse Productions
Contact details: 0207 620 3015
Roles and responsibilities in your group (team leader, scribe, feedback monitor, time monitor)
Firdowsa-team leader, Lucy scribe because she is able to type really fast , Meng-time monitor because she has a watch, Molly and Taamilia feedback because they are best able to communicate with the class our ideas
Brainstorm the different methods of advertising your band/song with information about what you would do in that advert (at least 10 ideas).
ITunes  Free demos
YouTube account
Featured in other adverts
Radio
Play at festivals
Broadcastings
Social networks e.g. Facebook, twitter
Print adverts in magazines
Newspaper adverts
Billboard adverts
MTV
Talk shows/interviews
Reviews of work
Banners on webpages
Background music on TV adverts
Concerts
Direct advertisements
On buses
Go to conventions
Charity events
Merchandising

group discussion - adverts & target audience


Molly suggested that it would be a good idea to aim one of our adverts at homosexuals, any age, any gender because homosexuals consider Nicki as a role model, as she is open minded, and the content of her music appeals to this audience.
Lucy added that homosexuals usually like people with confidence, which Nicki has a lot of.

Firdowsa thinks that Molly’s idea is a valid point, as she gave a detailed analysis as to why we should aim one of our adverts at homosexuals.
Taamilia doesn’t agree with the homosexual advert because it could come across as offensive, because they might feel that having a separate advert for them would separate them from everyone else.
Lucy understands why Taamilia feels like this so she suggested that we could have another advert aimed at another advert which is completely different, so that the homosexuals don’t feel as though they are being separated more than anyone else.
Meng said she knows who we are advertising, but said she doesn’t seem to understand her music, as Nicki is a rapper, so she talks a bit too fast.
Firdowsa said maybe one of our adverts should be aimed at little girly girls because super bass has a lot of pink, and because Nicki has a wig it is like dress up.
Taamilia said that it is not really appropriate for little children because the clothes she is wearing could be considered very provocative. Instead, we could aim it at young men between the ages of 17 – 21, as they like the sexiness of Nicki.
Molly suggested that Nicki should be advertised in a playboy magazine, as men like playboy, and Nicki would be in underwear, which would be sexy which men like.  
Firdowsa suggested putting Nicki Minaj on the Ellen show, as Ellen is a homosexual, so homosexuals would want to watch it.
Lucy thought that this is a great idea, however, because Ellen Is an American TV show, so instead we could put her on Alan Carr, who is also homosexual, and it is an English TV show. Molly said that since Alan Carr’s show is explicit it is on at 10:00 pm.
Molly suggested that we should put Nicki Minaj in Celebrity magazine because it is a children’s magazine, and as Nicki is known for her pink outfits, dress up clothing, make up and wigs, children will consider her a role model, as they will aspire to be like her.
Lucy noticed that we cannot do a magazine advert for two target audiences, so we decided that for the young male target audience, we can change it to a newspaper picture, in preferably The Sun, because it has page 3 so we already know men buy this newspaper.
However Taamilia pointed out that just before the sports page, there is a double page spread in The Sun that advertises festivals, and music, so that would be a good alternative.
We then realised that we have two print adverts, but we need 1 tv advert, 1 print advert and 1 internet advert. So we decided to put an advert on MTV website, and aim it at teen girls aged 12- 16 instead, because they use the internet a lot and the also like MTV.
Our final decisions which the whole group agreed on, our first advert will be a TV interview aimed at homosexuals, which will be on Alan Carr Chatty Man.
Our second decision is an advert aimed at men aged 17- 21, which will be a newspaper article in The Sun on the page just before the sports page. Molly asked miss Morris if we could call the sun and ask how many men read the sun newspaper every day, but miss said there was a website called think box but that website did not help at all so we decided to research it further on the internet, so far we haven’t found anything.
Our final decision was to put Nicki Minaj on the MTV website, for teenage girls aged 12- 16.  – the internet article will be about, this summer’s upcoming hits & predictions about how well the song will do in the charts
 

Friday 1 March 2013

coca cola- 2 advert analysis.


quench advert evaluation.



The first convention used in my print advert is masking. I masked 5 things, including images and text. I masked images like Mario, Bowser and the “Quench” can effectively by making sure there were no rough edges to make it seem realistic. I had to mask the logo onto the can so that it looked like a professional drink. Also, masking the images made it possible to put different effects on the images. An example of this is where I used a starry image and masked it onto Mario’s body which matched the slogan “Reach For The Stars”, the slogan’s text was also masked with this starry image.

The second convention used in my print advert is the size of the main images, this is effective in my print advert as the whole point is that Mario is bigger and stronger than bowser as Mario has drunk “Quench” and since bowser has not drank the drink therefore he will never beat/ win against Mario. This is effective because the target audience knows that Mario is the super hero and he is always the one that could beat bowser, now we know what his secret is too winning. This technique used is called nostalgia.

 

To improve my print advert I need to make sure my colour pallet compliments each other, but at the moment there is green, yellow, purple, red and blue. Which is too many colours which makes the advert look a bit busy, to improve this I could make my own background with less colours so that the main product is the thing that catches the eye of the audience, whereas with many different colours, the audience  at the moment do not know where to look first.