tide Flashcards
1
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(ML) visual codes ?
dress code
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- code of dress: polka dott white & blue dress: 60s wants to be the women: desirable
+ hair up in & red apron: ready to work: white clothes brilliance of tide
2
Q
(ML) visual codes
code of expression?
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- smiling: happy with the product: life transformed.
3
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(ML) visual codes
code of gesture?
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- hugging the product: happy with the product, wants it all to herself
- pointing to “remember”: reminding to wash with Tide
4
Q
(ML) visual codes
font/graphics
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- red colouring, bold, capitalism: love/importance
5
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(ML) direct mode of address
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- targetting audience to buy the product “You”
- “Tide” repeated: brands recognisition
- “Tides got what women want!”: text wavy like tide: conventional
- “no wonder you women buy more tide than any other washday products!”: direct address to women : superior, fallowing with the trends.
6
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(ML) language
superlatives & hyperbole ?
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- “the best!”
- “world’s cleanest wash!”
- “world’s whitest wash!
7
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(ML) language
iconic representation?
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- recognisable colours, repetition of “Tide”
8
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(ML) language
detailed copy?
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- new product: “suds”: historically washed clothes with a bar of soap
- new & improved women’s life in the 50s
9
Q
(ML) language
imperlative & exclamatives?
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- excitement & emphasis: “remember!”
10
Q
(context) 1983 - Jeremy Tunsall
women in media in 50s and their roles
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- women had a narrow range of social roles: stereotypical representation
- women in media: domestic, consumer & material activities
- busy housewives, contented mothers
11
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(context) during ww2
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- Ads in ww2: challenged stereotypical views of women being confined & domestic sphere: “traditional male role”
- men left to fight in war
12
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(context) in the 50s
post war
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- men targetted towards post - war boom in car industry
- women primarly marketed for domestic products
- products reflected status of the family & ability to afford them
- Ads representing domestic work as fun
13
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(audience) target audience
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- middle class women: wives & mothers with a disposable income (30-45)
- portays “happy housewife” & language used to suggest life changing product
- women encouraged to identify with the women
14
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(audience) Hall’s reception theory
dominant response ?
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- accepted meaning
- target audience: domestic housewife & stereotypical views, norms for 1950s female
15
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(audience) Hall’s reception theory
negotiated response?
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- accept some meanings
- older 1950s audience, nostolgia from past take pleasure of 1950s