Water Aid Audio-Visual Advert

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Mindmap am Water Aid Audio-Visual Advert, erstellt von Harry Barrett am 27/11/2018.
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Water Aid Audio-Visual Advert
  1. Context
    1. Social Context
      1. WaterAid, launching the Rain For Good campaign, said that it had "deliberately broken away from the traditional charity ad formula"
        1. The stereotypical 'victim' needing our help is an archetype with which the audience would be familiar from many other charity adverts
          1. This would perhaps make the more positive representation of Claudia as a healthy, independent and musically talented woman stand out to an audience who might otherwise have become immune to the emotive representations conventionally deployed by this advertising sub-genre
        2. Cultural Context
          1. The audience would be expected to be familiar with charity advertisements as they would have grown up during the big charity events of Live Aid and Band Aid
        3. Genre
          1. The advert reinforces charity advert conventions by including key information about the concern, a narrative relevant to the cause and an appeal for money
            1. How it reinforces the genre
              1. The advert includes key information about the cause
                1. It includes a narrative that is relevant to the cause and the audience can relate to in some way
                  1. It contains an appeal to the audience for money
                  2. How it contrasts the genre
                    1. The advert lacks a non-diegetic voiceover
                      1. It doesn't include melancholic audio codes
                        1. It doesn't use black and white visual codes
                          1. Theory: Saussure's Binary Opposition
                        2. Codes and Conventions
                          1. The opening medium shot with a pull focus between the radio and the rain on the window establishes the advert as a modern, British setting, this is backed by the audio code of the British voiceover
                            1. It's connoted that the scenes that follow are happening at the same time
                            2. The visual and audio codes work together to construct the narrative of "sunshine" (in Africa) "on a rainy day" (in Britain) with the associated problems of drought "lack of easy access to clean drinking water" that the charity is aiming to relieve
                              1. The advert uses a shallow depth of field, focusing on Claudia after setting the scene
                                1. The people are shown wringing out their clothes showing the clear water and bright colours contrast the ideas that the media has of charity adverts
                                  1. At the tap there were large amounts of buckets, this connotes that a many people had brought the buckets for the clean water
                                2. Theorists
                                  1. Roland Barthes
                                    1. Enigma Code
                                      1. Suspense is made through the use of the slow-motion, medium and close-up, low-angle tracking shot of Claudia's feet and the swinging bucket
                                    2. Stuart Hall
                                      1. Representations
                                        1. The images of a dry, dusty African environment in which people may be struggling to survive form part of the "shard conceptual road map" that give meaning to the "world" of the advert
                                          1. The more positive audio codes then work to challenge these stereotypical representations, creating enigmas around why Claudia appears to be so positive
                                            1. The solution to these enigmas is given to the audience at 01:00 when we first see the water pump
                                        2. David Gauntlett
                                          1. Identity
                                            1. Claudia acts as a role model for the type of lifestyle changes that the audience could be responsible for creating if they donate to Water Aid
                                          2. Liesbet Van Zoonen
                                            1. Feminism
                                              1. By assuming the stereotypically male roles of 'protagonist' and 'provider', Claudia is perhaps contributing to social change by representing women in non-traditional roles
                                          3. Representations
                                            1. The dress codes of the advert's main female character include a stereotypical knee-length skirt and pink colour palette in both her top and shoes
                                              1. Claudia's age is similar to the other young women she walks past at 00:30 and those who join her at the water pump at 01:00
                                                1. This connotes that she has perhaps had to "grow up too quickly" because of the tough environment in which she lives
                                                  1. Her independence is connoted by the wide-angled shot at 00:18 in which she is denoted on her own on a long and empty dust road
                                                2. Close-up shots using handheld cameras (00:16), her open, confident gesture codes (00:51) and her smiling gesture code (01:09) represent her as the advert's protagonist and a 'character' with whom the audience can positively associate
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