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1) What year was the advert produced? 1950 2) How were women represented in most adverts in the 1950s? Most women in the 1950's where usually housewives and did all their work at home and did not have any jobs to do. If they don't do house work then they are looking after their kids while the men do the important job and work to get money to feed the family. 3) How does the heading  message ('OMO makes whites bright') and typography promote the product? The heading makes the words sound like its a rhyme and it might get stuck in your head (catchy). It might also get the audience to buy it and it convinces them. 4) Analyse the mise-en-scene in the advert (CLAMPS): how is costume, make-up and placement of the model used to suggest women's role in society? She is dressed up like a housewives and her expression is like is wants to work hard on cleaning and is joyful to clean up. 5) Why is a picture of the product added to the bottom right of the adver...

General Look through the slides from the lesson on Reveal and use this information and your own research and analytical skills to answer the questions below.    1) Based on your research, what type of people read Reveal? Consider demographics and psychographics. People of lower class read these sort of magazines because they might have spare change to use. 2) Look at the lesson slides: how does the editor introduce Reveal magazine? The magazine introduces Reveal as a magazine for people who want to escape their life of doing their jobs and hear all the gossip about celebs. 3) What is the difference between the Reveal and Tatler target audiences? Reveal is for lower class people whereas Tatler is more for higher class who have time and money to spend. 4) What issues are Reveal readers interested in? Reveal readers are interested in the latest gossip and what their relationships are like and with who they are with (partner).  Media language 1) How m...