I hope that you had a good break over the long weekend--but, alas, no rest fo the examined ones, so by now you should be back to revision, and planning out your schedule for the next days and weeks.
A good place to start is with your paper 1 revision for your media book. Sticking in adverts and so on can be a restful occupation, while annotating them can be genuinely useful. For an interesting angle on the language of advertising, look at this article from the Guardian, published on April 1st. How many of those who saw it realised it was an April fool, and why? How do they use language to create an effective pastiche of political advertising campaigns?
I wonder if a campaign like that would actually work...? Although it's probably against Health and Safety...
ReplyDeleteI bet it would, actualy--with certain sectors of the population...
ReplyDeleteMaybe Labour will turn the joke around and actually use it, just like The Conservatives turned around the Gene Hunt posters!
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