Wednesday 25 November 2015

LO2 Task 4: M2

Aims and Objectives
The aims and objectives for this paticular print-based advertising campaign is simply to create awareness of the company/brand and the several products they produce. All in order to sell there stock and interest buyers, as well as to expand and to help produce more interested potential costumes for the specific brand I've chosen to create products for. The aims of the project is to create a specific audio-visual advertisements in order to better the company in terms of how they advertise themselves as a brand. This will be done buy creating a professional looking audio-visual advertisement, similar to the ones I've taken as influence and inspiration (B&Q and ScrewFix) to use as a way to sell there company and products to potential buyers. In relation to objectives, the advertisements will be placed out in several forms of media to be used as advertisements towards the company. The audio-visual advert will be used as the main add to represent the company/brand as a promotional piece to advertise the company through the media.

Target Audience
The target audience of these specific print-based advertisements  are an much older audience, 25+, both male and female based. The audience will be specific, only being in need of the specific products the company produce (Primarily Doors/Windows), or working within the industry. The advertisements will also target adult home buyers, couples and families that own there own house and the kinds of people who gain the income to spend money on the range of expensive products produced by the brand. In that respect, the company also reaches out to an older generation who have the money to spend on related products.

Campaign Message
The message represented within the adverts is that of the quality of the products prodcued. All of the advertisements created make it clear that the company is extremely persistent on the quality and care of all there products, especially when considering the professionalism of the logo. With aspirations related to company profession, comes the domesticity and the adult attitude of clean living and home security, which family audiences that are targeted by B&Q will be of big importance.

Relevant legal and ethical issues
The Advertising standards Authority are the independent regulator for advertising all media in the UK. The ASA use advertising codes for Advertising Practice written by Committees. The main focus of the ASA is act upon complaints and troubles from the public by taking action against advertisements that may have harmful, misleading or offensive advertisements.

The ASA intend to ensure that all advertisements are honest, reliable and overall genuine and can be presented to the public, as a real advertisement should be. The ASA also have a council and a Senior Management team with the council being in charge of deciding if a piece of advertising has breached the code of being able to be shown to the public and the team being responsible of setting the direction of the organization.

The ASA is funded by advertisements on arrangements that guarantees the ASA independence and is collected by the advertising standards and broadcast advertising standards.

 The ASA work with independent experts and other regulators who have responsibility for looking after sectors more broadly and as the ASA regulate advertising across all sectors so its not unsurprising that they work with these people.

The ASA have been around since T.V commercial broadcasting started in 1955 and was controlled by legislation

Regulatory bodies
OFCOM: 
OFCOM Broadcasters must not use material that might seriously impair the physical, mental or moral developments too protect people under 18. Programs must not include material that is likely to encourage others to copy behaviour. Material likely to encourage the commission of crime or to lead to disorder must not be included in television or radio services. Religious views and beliefs of those belonging to a particular religion denomination must not be subject to abusive treatment. Broadcasters must avoid unjust or unfair treatment of individuals or organisations in programs. Any infringement of privacy in the making of programs should be with the persons and/or organisations consent or otherwise warranted.

Wednesday 11 November 2015

LO2 Task (C) 3: Relevant Legal and Ethical issues

Relevant legal and ethical issues
Copyright law is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it as its theirs (This means no one can copy or steal this idea as its not their)
Easily pirated media

   Music
   Films
   T.V
   Games

All advertisements must be truthfull, this may come in the form of small print, but still must honest to customers and buyers or the company could get in serious trouble for false advertisement. In terms of there specific print-based advertisements I've looked at, they doesn't seem to be any form of terms and conditions. Actors in the advertisements must have agreed to take part.

In relation to copyright issues all advertisements must be truthful, this may come in the form of small print, but still must honest to customers and buyers or the company could get in serious trouble for false advertisement. In terms of my specific print-based advertisements, they doesn't seem to be any form of terms and conditions. Actors in the advertisements must have agreed to take part.

The only relevant Legal and Ethical consideration issues that I can think of that my print-based advertisement will face in the campaigns are the usage of product pictures used and the ability to back it up by proving that the company own the rights to the products advertised, and that the products are own and original.

Regulatory bodies

The Advertising standards Authority are the independent regulator for advertising all media in the UK. The ASA use advertising codes for Advertising Practice written by Committees. The main focus of the ASA is act upon complaints and troubles from the public by taking action against advertisements that may have harmful, misleading or offensive advertisements.

The ASA intend to ensure that all advertisements are honest, reliable and overall genuine and can be presented to the public, as a real advertisement should be. The ASA also have a council and a Senior Management team with the council being in charge of deciding if a piece of advertising has breached the code of being able to be shown to the public and the team being responsible of setting the direction of the organization.

The ASA is funded by advertisements on arrangements that guarantees the ASA independence and is collected by the advertising standards and broadcast advertising standards.

 The ASA work with independent experts and other regulators who have responsibility for looking after sectors more broadly and as the ASA regulate advertising across all sectors so its not unsurprising that they work with these people.

The ASA have been around since T.V commercial broadcasting started in 1955 and was controlled by legislation







































This is the model release form that I created for, used towards my work.

Wednesday 7 October 2015

LO2 Task (B) 2: Advertising campaign schedule

In relation to time scales, the project will last the the 5th of October to the 30th of November with key points and launch dates in-between. The gantt chart as shown breaks down the project and shows the specific client meeting dates and product placement times in the created time period.

In relation to both the the print-based advertisement and the audio-visual advert, the ad will be placed out towards Christmas/new years time (December, January) of 2016 - 2017 in preparation for the cold weather. This is done to make the ads more specific and relevant due to more people wanting new, better quality, energy efficient door and window products in winter time due to heat loss high energy bill concerns.

In relation to media, the print-based advert will be launched first being placed out in print media such as local newspapers such as The Star and The Sheffield Telegraph and relevant magazines such as Exposed Magazine in preparation for the official audio-visual advertisement that will be launched on public T.V on appropriate channels such as Sheffield Live, in time scales relevant to the target audience (adults) around 6pm when adults and couples are home from work.

Tuesday 6 October 2015

LO2 Task (A) 1: Proposal

Aims and Objectives
The aims and objectives for this paticular print-based advertising campaign is simply to create awareness of the company/brand and the several products they produce. All in order to sell there stock and interest buyers, as well as to expand and to help produce more interested potential costumes for the specific brand I've chosen to create products for. The aims of the project is to create several print-based advertisements (Logo and Newspaper advertisement) in order to better the company in terms of how they advertise themselves as a brand. This will be done buy creating a more professional looking logo and creating a print-based newspaper advertisement to use as a way to sell there company and products to potential buyers. In relation to objectives, the advertisements will be placed out in several forms of media to be used as advertisements towards the company. The Logo will be used as the main image to represent the company/brand where as the print-based newspaper advertisement will be use as a promotional piece to advertise the company through the media.

Target Audience
The target audience of these specific print-based advertisements  are an much older audience, 25+, both male and female based. The audience will be specific, only being in need of the specific products the company produce (Primarily Doors/Windows), or working within the industry. The advertisements will also target adult home buyers, couples and families that own there own house and the kinds of people who gain the income to spend money on the range of expensive products produced by the brand. In that respect, the company also reaches out to an older generation who have the money to spend on related products.

campaign Message
The message represented within the adverts is that of the quality of the products produced. All of the advertisements created make it clear that the company is extremely persistent on the quality and care of all there products, especially when considering the professionalism of the logo. With aspirations related to company profession, comes the domesticity and the adult attitude of clean living and home security, which family audiences that are targeted by B&Q will be of big importance.






Wednesday 16 September 2015

LO1 Task 1: Evaluate an existing campaign
























Aims and Objectives
the aims and objectives of these specific print-based advertisements are simply to create awareness of the company/brand and the several products they produce. All in order to sell there stock and interest buyers. As well as this, the brand also encodes a "pro-active" vibe in there advertisements, to give the viewer this sense of confidence when relating to the "Do it yourself" "You can do it" attitude towards successful DIY.

Target audience

The target audience of this advertisement is an much older audience, 25+, both male and female. The audience will be specific, being interested in DIY, working within the industry or in need of a product that relates to home improvements or the construction business  i.e Joinery, Brickwork, Painting and Decorating ECT. The advertisements will also target adult home buyers, couples and families that own there own house and the kinds of people who gain the income to spend money on the range of expensive products produced by the brand. In that respect, the company also reaches out to an older generation who have the time and money to spend working on DIY related projects.

Representation

An ongoing theme that is represented in all of B&Qs products is the "house style" in that of the colour orange. The colour is associated with the brand and is represented by B&Q in every aspect of the media. The colour defies the company and is that well known that the colour itself is usually paired with the establishment. Also being represented in the campaigns are the workers and costumers as well as the quality of the products they produce, which is usually key in all forms of B&Qs advertisements. B&Q don't target a specific gender and like to think there target demographic is both, this is shown in both there print and audio-visual advertisements, like the "I did that" advert. B&Q target the working class, aiming there product at both sexes who have the time and money to become socially and emotionally invested in the product that they sell. In terms of targeting an specific ethnicity group, B&Q aim there product at everyone, this is shown in there advertisements as they don't stereotype there audience.

Campaign message

The message encoded within B&Qs adverts is that of the quality of B&Qs products. All of the print-based advertisements that I have chosen to analyse make it clear that the company is extremely persistent on the quality of there products, and with this comes a happy sense of accomplishment that is clearly shown off in there advertisements. All of B&Qs print and audio-visual advertisements make the audience positive, and gives the related market aspirations towards the happy accomplishment of the "Do it yourself" attitude towards DIY. With aspirations related to DIY, comes the domesticity and the adult attitude of clean living and home security, which family audiences that are targeted by B&Q will be of big importance.

Print-based advertisements used in the campaign

The print-based advertisements in this particular campaign that I've decided to analyse are several posters and one print-based advertisement in a newspaper. The differences between the print-based advertisement and the posters are the way each one is laid out in relation to kerning & leading, font style and the content printed out on each individual advertisements. The posters for example (2, 3 and 4) are specifically created to be glanced at like billboards and T.V advertisements, not giving the viewer much time to read the product, also relying on attention grabbing imagery, juxtaposition, white space and pictures to intrigue potential buyers, especially in poster 3 and 1 that grabs the attention of a potential customer both by using a bright orange and white backgrounds and bold B&Q text. But with this also comes very little to no information, this is shown in all of the posters that I've decided to analyse. This is completely different compared to the newspaper print-based advert (1) that is clearly a lot more text heavy and purposely created to be read through and analysed in a newspaper or a magazine.

Relevant legal and ethical issues

Copyright law is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it as its theirs (This means no one can copy or steal this idea as its not their)
Easily pirated media

   Music
   Films
   T.V
   Games

All advertisements must be truthful, this may come in the form of small print, but still must honest to customers and buyers or the company could get in serious trouble for false advertisement. In terms of there specific print-based advertisements I've looked at, they doesn't seem to be any form of terms and conditions. Actors in the advertisements must have agreed to take part.

The only relevant Legal and Ethical consideration issues that I can think of that B&Q will face in there day to day print and audio-visual advertisement campaigns are the usage of products in the campaign advertisements and backing it up by proving that they own the rights to the products they advertise, and that the products are theres.

Regulatory bodies

What is the ASA?
The Advertising standards Authority are the independent regulator for advertising all media in the UK. The ASA use advertising codes for Advertising Practice written by Committees. The main focus of the ASA is act upon complaints and troubles from the public by taking action against advertisements that may have harmful, misleading or offensive advertisements.

The ASA intend to ensure that all advertisements are honest, reliable and overall genuine and can be presented to the public, as a real advertisement should be. The ASA also have a council and a Senior Management team with the council being in charge of deciding if a piece of advertising has breached the code of being able to be shown to the public and the team being responsible of setting the direction of the organization.

The ASA is funded by advertisements on arrangements that guarantees the ASA independence and is collected by the advertising standards and broadcast advertising standards.

 The ASA work with independent experts and other regulators who have responsibility for looking after sectors more broadly and as the ASA regulate advertising across all sectors so its not unsurprising that they work with these people.

The ASA have been around since T.V commercial broadcasting started in 1955 and was controlled by legislation

https://www.asa.org.uk

https://www.cap.org.uk

Method

Print-Based
The print-based advertisement are placed out in all types of media but relating to the ones I've analysed, the adverts are purposely placed out in newspapers like The Daily Star, The Sun and The Daily Mirror, and Magazines like Style At Home, Do It Yourself and Ready Made, and are recognisable by the bright orange to attract a mass audience. Because of the type of industry B&Q and the DIY attitude is linked too, you wouldn't find advertisements for the brand in newspapers and magazines like the Independent and Vogue.

Audio-Visual
In terms of audio-visual related advertisements, the adverts link to the print-based advertisement campaign through its form, presentation and style. Also in all forms of advertisement, B&Q focus heavily on there target demographic and use there audience in there advertisements instead of, for example, showcasing there staff or displaying there work place venues. The obvious audio-visual form of advertisement also given off in all aspects of there advertisements is the constant reliability on the company colour orange, as it represents the brand and stand out to potential buyers.

M1
The "Unleash the B&Q in you" advert depicts B&Qs target audience as "Superhero's" using a play-on effect as if the everyday DIY apron is a superhero cape and wearing it while doing all types of B&Q related DIY projects, gives you a strong positive confidence towards doing successful DIY nether the less if you're experienced or not. This is shown through the wide range of different classes, ages, cultures and ethnic groups they show off in the video, from the little girl wanting to build a tree house to the older more mature gentleman wanting to successfully use a BBQ,  all depicted through several shot types such as long and low angle shots to add to the effect there trying to pull off. B&Q is defiantly wanting to get across this message that literally anyone can do anything when using there own products. With this also comes across this message that B&Qs products are really good for quality and suitable for range, showing off many different products such as drills, PPE and decorative home improvements, such as cushions and lamps. The ad attracts the audience by both showing off the false sense of aspirations as well as the shire range of good quality products they produce and stock, a lot of this is done through fast paced editing techniques and special effects in both adverts. They sell this to the audience by using many different characters in the advertisement as well as using peer to peer to connect to there target audience, as well as using lots of bright colours and the successful use of sound & audio, in relation to a well fitted music track to attract the viewers, especially using the trademark orange, in the form of the "superhero" like apron. This is used to inform the watcher of the brand and company being advertised before reaching the end of the advert. The advertisement fits in with the ethos of the brand because of the happy sense of confidence and accomplishment all of B&Qs advertisements give off and the usage of positive bright colours, people and mise-en-scene in relation to the story told in the advertisement.