You need to write about the work we did in class, what kinds of leaflets you looked at, what you learned about them and the kinds of campaigns they waged e.g. Barnardos had a campaign using children’s bodies and older heads to show that children lose their childhood and innocence when abused, another had children injecting drugs but the captions referred to the 23 year old they grew into who died.
Some campaigns portray the sufferers as victims but some seek to empower the sufferers by explaining that will a little bit of help they will be able to lead independent lives etc
We looked at slogans and styles of logos too – what makes a good slogan / logo?
We looked at campaigns that imitated existing advertising products like the ‘Wonderbra’ ad which was parodied by Age Concern to great effect.
We explored the methods by which charities gain the public’s sympathies and ultimately their money, words used, choices of images, camera angles even whether it was in black and white or colour.
We also devised a questionnaire to find out…….. each distributed 10 copies to a range of people – why? And found out………
When coming up with your own ideas –
- Why did you choose the charity or issue you did?
- What did you already know?
- Why did you choose the slogan and logo that you did?
- How are they effective?
- Why did you choose to do the artefacts that you did?
- What independent research did you do?
- What did you find out?
- What decisions did you make about how you would portray the sufferers?
- Why?
- To what extent if any were you influenced by previous research and campaigns?
- What pictures did you decide to take yourself?
- Why those? Why and where did you find the other images you used?
- How did you go about making each artefact?
For each artefact –
- What programs / font / colours / wording / layout / background /composition /images / etc did you use / choose?
- What revisions did you have to make as you went along?
- What is the exact purpose?
- Why?
- What is its intended location?
- Why?
- Who is its intended audience?
- Why?
- When complete – are you pleased with it? What changes would you make? Is it effective? Does it do the job it was intended to?
Did you learn anything? Did you enjoy it? What was the hardest bit? The most rewarding? Frustrating?