Thursday, 30 June 2016

TV Advert Analyses


TV Advert Analyses

Magnum is an ice cream company that started in 1989 in Germany. They have released many different types of flavours with lots of limited edition flavours like the 5 senses, seven deadly sins and the sixties nine witch featured sixties-related names like John Lemon, Cherry Guevara and Guava Lamp, all these only out for a limited time. This will be the company i will be rebranding.

Target Audience 
Magnums adverts show that their primary target audience is females as they always have female models in their adverts, also they never have a male as their main character in them except for the Gold advert, they also like to be posh with their adverts like one of them being a party filled with posh/rich people with the ending of a female eating the magnum ice cream. The new target audience i will be trying to aim at is male workers like a builder which we will show in the advert we will have to make.

Advert Analyses
This advert was released on March the 13th, 2014. This ad was used to reinforce the name of Magnum by celebrating their 25 years of being a company, this advert also sells their product. Magnums target audience is middle aged 24+ females and upper class, this is shown in the advert by using middle aged females in multiple scene chasing the magnum balloons (wanting a magnum). These females are also wearing high class clothes which is why I would say the advert aims at the upper class. This advert is a stand-alone which is common for the Magnum company to do. 

Style of the ad
The magnum advert has surreal elements which are the balloons that pop and a magnum falls out but it has a very real scenery which are the streets of France, this is all common in Magnum adverts like the one which featured Kareena Kapoor where they are at a posh party and brown chocolate drops hit the peoples suits and dresses which turns everything they wear brown this is the surreal element to that advert but the scenery which is the house which is very real.

AIDA
The advert attracts the viewer by using attractive females this will attract the male audience; the chocolate/ice-cream is used to attract the female audience. The audience is interested by the advert by saying ‘25 years of pleasure’ and saying the 25 anniversary is bringing the original ice cream at its best which raises interest. Them showing off the chocolate ice-cream by unwrapping it and eating it creates an emotion to desire the classic magnum ice cream. Celebrating 25 years of the magnum company creates a promotion action which will want people to get the classic ice cream as it has survived for so long.

The persuasion techniques they use in the advert is sex appeal with all the female models they use, the slogan of their company is ‘for pleasure seekers’ witch is making you want to get it if you want to taste pleasure. 

Location Recce

Adult Talent Release

Monday, 27 June 2016

Location Release

Secondary Research

Secondary Research for Documentary


http://www.theimi.org.uk/news/government-must-address-careers-advice-if-it-expects-attract-16-18-year-olds-apprenticeships-0 - This article talks about how the government has to address apprenticeships and how they will get 16-18 year olds to want apply to them. Steve Nash who is the CEO of the Institute of the Motor Industry says "Currently, with no formal careers advice in schools, young people aren't getting the direction they need to make the best choices for their future. There is a real conflict of interest between schools holding onto 16-18 year old pupils to bolster their funding and the clearly stated desire by government to see more taking the apprenticeship route.” What Steve said I agree with as when I was in High School I didn’t really understand how apprenticeships worked and have never got to try that type of education and I was so use to being taught in a class so I was leaning towards college before I knew anything about apprenticeships which is bad as I might of got a lot more out of an apprenticeship rather than wasting my time at college which at the end of it will be me getting an apprenticeship. The survey conducted by the IMI shows that only 10 per cent think advice offered by the National Careers Service has any impact on apprentice recruitment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31061905 - This news article by BBC talks about how teenagers are dropping out of school or college due to bad career advice. The researchers combined dropout and failure figures on A-levels, apprenticeships and further education courses to give a total of 178,000 16 to 18-year-olds not completing their courses., of these, 92,000 students withdrew from schools, primarily from AS and A-levels; 24,200 did not complete apprenticeships or training courses and an estimated 61,900 withdrew from FE courses.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9072482/OECD-fifth-of-British-teenagers-drop-out-of-school-at-16.html - Figures show almost one-in-five pupils currently leave school at 16 before taking A-level style qualifications. Recent statistics show that children in most other countries including Slovenia, Estonia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic educate students to a much higher standard than in Britain. It placed Britain 25th out of 35 countries in terms of the number of adults who failed to stay in education up to the age of 18.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11192026/Poor-careers-advice-failing-to-address-STEM-skills-crisis.html - This article talks about how a lot of teens want to pursue a career science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) related industry, but more than half of those surveyed admitted that they knew very little about the type of jobs on offer. A lot of teens are relying on parents and friends to deliver career advice.

Questionnair

Name:

Gender:

Age:

1       What High School/Academy did you go to?





2     Did you know what you wanted to do when you finished high school?
Yes/no
3      
      Did you feel like you had a lot of choices when you were choosing?
Yes/no
4    
          Do you feel like you are on the right career path right now?
Yes/no
5     
           If you could change your choice now would you?
Yes/no
6    
           How do you feel they should change to help teenagers in high school looking for career advice?





      
     Do you feel like it’s hard for young people to decide what they want to do for a career?

Primary Research

Primary Research 

My primary research is coming from a questionnaire I gave to a bunch of college students at East Norfolk High School. From what I have collected 69% of the people didn’t know what they wanted to do after they finished High School which is a lot of people in a rush to find out what they want to do and what college to go to.  My second question was do you feel like lot of choices when you were choosing your college or what A-levels or BTECs they want to do? and 54% of the people said yes which Is more than half of the people that took the survey. The next question was do you feel like you are on the right career path right now? and 46% of the answers said no which nearly half of the people feel like they are not on the right career path and this was near the end of the first year of college. The last question of the survey was If you could change your choice now would you? And 38% of the people said they would which is a few people who would like to change what they have been doing for almost a year which a wait of a year for them because of choosing the wrong subjects.