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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Political Poster Analysis

Purpose -  links equal rights movement (which was happening at the time) to the political party in order to promote themselves and reach the female demographic
Aims - to get women to vote for the specific party in order to gain equal rights.
Techniques -
Image - Pop art style, popular at the time. Portrays women as being strong. Links well to trends at the time.
Colour Scheme - Bold colours to catch the audiences eyes , Simple solid colours excluding image.
Copy - Simple catch phrase at the top of page. First thing to be read. Small print at bottom with logo of ‘committee’
Fonts - Simple san serif fonts used for clear, easy to read text. Professional looking.
Tone - Strong tone, “We can do it!”.










Purpose - To “mudsling” labour. Portrays that labour are leaving people unemployed. “Labour” could also be used in a different context and the poster still makes sense.
Aims - To convince people to vote for the conservatives and not labour.
Techniques - Simple catch phrase to catch the eye and make the poster memorable. “Britain’s better off with the conservatives” shows that this is a deliberate mudslinging.
Image - People queuing in a line for the unemployment office .
Colour scheme - Dark, dull colours to get information across in a professional manor.
Fonts - San serif font all in caps. (common in political posters) to portray information clearly and quickly and make it more memorable.
Tone - Strong tone, “Labour isn’t working.”


Purpose - To mudsling the labour party.
Aims - To stop people voting for labour and to encourage them to vote for other parties.
Techniques - Simple catch phrase to make memorable.
Image - Simple image of labour representative, obviously altered to portray that he is “evil”
Colour Scheme - Black and white image and background with bold red writing to stand out and make it more memorable.
Font - San serif font all in caps again. Both lines starting with new. This creates a memorable phrase
Tone - Strong tone, “new labour, new danger”











Monday, 3 November 2014

Questionnaire Evaluation

We asked a demographic of 52 people aged 15-25 some questions about politics. One of the questions we asked was whether they preferred Digital or Print posters. 42.3% of people said Digital and Print, whilst 13.4% of people said both and 1 person (2%) said none. We also asked the same people how much they know about politics (between 1-5). The average answer was 2.06. 44 of the 52 people we asked said they did not support a political party (84.6%). 3 of them said labour (6%), 1 said conservative (2%), 1 said green (2%) and 2 said they supported a party (4%), but did not state a specific one. We also asked them how often they access political information. 9 people said weekly (17.3%), 14 people said daily (26.9%), 6 said rarely (11.5%), 21 said never (40.4%).


When it comes to political posters, according to our questionnaire, people are evenly divided between Digital and Print posters. This shows a huge rise in digital advertising since being introduced. Unsurprisingly, considering the demographic chosen, the average political knowledge score was 2.06 out of 5. This result is extremely low, however due to the lack of compulsory political education this is not surprising. It is also unsurprising that the majority of people we asked don’t support a political party for the same reasoning. This result could also be linked to the age of the people asked (majority not old enough to vote). The majority of people also said they never access political information, again almost certainly related to the demographic.

Spreadsheet


In todays lesson I learnt how not to assume things when writing a factual evaluation of results. I also learnt how to professionally make assumptions using the results. I also re-learnt how to calculate percentages, averages and how to analyse/use filters in Google spreadsheet documents. I have previously used spreadsheets, however before coming to college I have never used Google's online 'Sheets". I found that my previous knowledge of spreadsheets transferred easily over to the new UI and I easily gathered the results and organised them effectively.