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10.10.16
REPRESENTATION: Women vs. Men
No one can argue that there isn't a distinct difference in the way that organisations advertise to men and women. The age-old stereotype that pink and dolls are for girls, and that blue and manual labour are for boys, is ingrained in us daily through the use of advertisement. It can be subtle enough that we don't notice it but, after doing some critical thinking, we can begin to see just how much effect that advertising has on our views of different groups of people. In class, we were tasked with analysing two different television commercials - one aimed at men, and one aimed at women - in order to try to distinguish these distinct differences.
9.10.16
3.10.16
Thriller Trailer Analysis
In this post, I've taken trailers from three popular thriller movies and compared them with the typical conventions of the thriller genre as a whole, paying attention to both technical codes and narrative events.
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