What is the overt message in this ad? How do we know this? What is the covert message in this ad? How do we know that? Is this propaganda or simple persuasion? Explain.
The overt message of this ad was to duck and cover your head in case of an atomic bomb. We know this because of the repeated use of the phrase, "duck and cover" throughout the film. The covert message was that we should fear the atomic bomb. However, I do not believe that this message was intended due to the fact that it was made for children. I think that this video is just simple persuasion. First of all, the makers of this video repeatedly said "duck and cover," which made their message painfully obvious. Secondly, because this video was made for children, I do not believe that the creators would have placed any hidden message in the video because the children probably wouldn't have been able to pick up on it.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Destination Earth
What is the overt message in this ad? How do we know this? What is the covert message in this ad? How do we know that? How is this propaganda (include and be specific about how it uses the specific types of propaganda we have read about)? Explain.
The overt message is that oil has many valuable uses. The cartoon showed the different ways that oil can be used, such as making tires, roads, or gasoline. The covert message we should appreciate the economy of America and to not try and be like a communist society, like Mars was at the beginning of the short film. This is propaganda because of the vast differences between the overt and covert messages. The propaganda technique they used was transfer because they used the hatred of communism that most people have to make the audience side against the communist society that had been established on Mars.
The overt message is that oil has many valuable uses. The cartoon showed the different ways that oil can be used, such as making tires, roads, or gasoline. The covert message we should appreciate the economy of America and to not try and be like a communist society, like Mars was at the beginning of the short film. This is propaganda because of the vast differences between the overt and covert messages. The propaganda technique they used was transfer because they used the hatred of communism that most people have to make the audience side against the communist society that had been established on Mars.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Propaganda WWII
1. The overt message is to eat less bread.
2. The covert message is that if you want to be a patriotic American, then you will do you your part and make the sacrifice to eat less bread to support the troops fighting in World War II.
3. This is propaganda because the two messages differ greatly. This makes the viewer not realize that their point of view on tthis subject was actually given to them by the overt message of the ad.
2. The covert message is that if you want to be a patriotic American, then you will do you your part and make the sacrifice to eat less bread to support the troops fighting in World War II.
3. This is propaganda because the two messages differ greatly. This makes the viewer not realize that their point of view on tthis subject was actually given to them by the overt message of the ad.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
"Clampdown" by The Clash
1. I think that this song is about trying to defy authority. They allude to different types of authority, like the Nazis, in this song. At one point it says, "Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?" This strongly implies that the song is talking about the Nazis. Later, they also mention training blue-eyed boys, which is what the Nazis believed everyone should look like.
2. I think that this song is suppose to sound ironic, because the tempo is upbeat and it is in a major key, which creates a light and cheerful tone, which greatly contrast to the quite grim topic.
3. This song is propaganda because it puts the authority in a negative light, making you not want to trust it or be a part of it.
2. I think that this song is suppose to sound ironic, because the tempo is upbeat and it is in a major key, which creates a light and cheerful tone, which greatly contrast to the quite grim topic.
3. This song is propaganda because it puts the authority in a negative light, making you not want to trust it or be a part of it.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Propaganda
The quotes that I chose were numbers 521, 534, 574, and 580. The quote that I chose to analyze was number 574. "The first step in liquidating a people... is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will forget what it is and what it was." I agree with this quote wholeheartedly. To me, it seems to almost be summarizing George Orwell's 1984 in a few sentences. In the book, Orwell demonstrated quite clearly how well the people of a country can fall under the government's control when they are fed lies about their history and how their culture is suppose to be. There was no outright persuasion in the book, but the citizens were fed quite a lot of propaganda, such as the posters that read "Big brother is watching you." This scared the citizens into behaving, thinking that they would be punished if someone was always watching them. If they had known their history, then they would know that that was not how a reasonable life was suppose to be and they would do something about it, but they didn't.
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