Propaganda/visual anaylisis Flashcards
What is propaganda?
The use of mass media to persuade people to support a particular viewpoint. This involves careful selection of information to manipulate peoples opinion about an issue.
List the ten techniques of propaganda.
- Use of a emotive or biased language
- Repetition
- Identify an enemy
- Creating a situation ‘us vs them’
- Name calling
- Creating fear in the audience
- Creating a sense of guilt in the target audience, if they do not support the cause
- Patriotism - appealing to a persons love for their country i.e doing what serves and protects the country
- Appealing to people to do the right thing for either moral or religious reasons
- Stereotypes and/or generalisations
What is visual analysis?
Visual material is an important part of historical evidence. Photographs, posters and cartoons. This helps a person understand more about a specific event or situation
What is ionic photographs?
Famous photographs may symbolise a specific historic time period
What is photographs?
Provide firsthand eyewitness accounts of specific events. Photographs are primary sources. It reperesents a moment frozen in time.
What questions should you consider in terms of photographs?
- What is the main focus?
- What was the photograph’s intention in capturing a specific scene?
- What impact will it have on the people who viewed it?
- How reliable is the photo in terms of conveying specific information to the viewer?
What does what was the main focus of the photograpgh mean?
Based on first thing that one sees or attracts one’s attention
What does what was the photograph as intention in capturing a specific scene of a photograph mean?
Based on whatever information the photographer wishes to convey to an audience about a specific event.
What does what impact will that have on the people who viewed it of the photograph mean?
How people who view the photo might feel about the event
What does how reliable is the photo in terms of conveying specific information to the viewer mean?
Involves considering the nature of the photo carefully. It is one moment in time chosen for a specific personal reason. The photographer wants to capture a specific viewpoint. Consider what the rest of the scene outside the photograph would look like as well as the context
What are posters?
Important forms of primary source of historical evidence. Educate people about a specific event or cause . Main purpose is to inform the viewer about something specific. Used to persuade people about something or take some sort of action. Used as a direct way in which to appeal to views through powerful visuals and graphics. Easy to undertsand.
What questions should you consider in terms of posters?
- Who is the intended audience?
- What symbolism has been used?
- What is the purpose?
- Where does the poster come from (origin)?
- How is reliable is the information being provided?
What does who is the intended audience mean in terms of posters?
Which people the poster aimed at
What does what symbolism has been used in terms of posters?
Look for graphics that stand for something specific
What does what is its purpose mean in terms of posters?
Why the poster was created
