The document provides guidance for analyzing advertisements using the PILOC framework and addressing representation. It instructs the user to examine the product, intended audience, images including models and settings, lettering style and language, organizational layout, and adherence to advertising codes and conventions. It then lists questions to consider about representation, including who or what is represented, their depicted activities and purpose, and the framing and surroundings.
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1. Use PILOC to analyse the
advert in your groups¡
? Product
? Who is the audience? (Age,
income, etc.) What does the
packaging suggest? What is the
purpose (Maslow)?
? Image
? Model: age, hair/make-up,
costume; props;
background/setting; colour-scheme;
lighting; shot ¨C
composition, framing, etc.
? Lettering
? Font style and colour; language
used.
? Organisation
? How is the layout organised?
? Codes & Conventions
? How does it follow the codes
and conventions of advertising?
2. Representation
Answer the following questions for the advert:
? Who or what is being represented? Who is the preferred
audience for this representation?
? What are they doing? Is their activity presented as typical, or
atypical (stereotypical, or does it challenge the stereotype)? Are
they conforming to genre expectations or other conventions?
? Why are they present? What purpose do they serve? What are
they communicating by their presence? What's the preferred
reading?
? Where are they? How are they framed? Are they represented as
natural or artificial? What surrounds them? What is in the
foreground and what is in the background?