Propaganda Poster Project:
All advertising (commercials, product placement, billboards, etc.) is propaganda to a certain extent. Ads are meant for the viewer to BUY something. This can be a material object (a physical product or item) or an idea. The media is constantly bombarding us with products (physical or ideological) to sell us. Being aware of how you are "sold" a product is an important critical skill to have in our day and age.
Propaganda is the idea or statement (often false--perhaps 'alternative facts'--or exaggerated/hyperbole...) that are spread culturally in order to help a cause, a political leader or party, a government, or any established institution.
In the LAB: Please complete the following group/solo activities:
TASK #1: With your partner, please examine the posters below and discuss what you see. How is the artist/writer persuading you, what's the message, how is the subject treated or represented? Please note: some of these images are disturbing or promote politically incorrect material.Discuss with your partner your reaction and interpretation of the ad. Note the dominant and subdominant images/text.
TASK #2: Alone or sharing earphones with your partner, take a look at these cartoon and videos. After viewing, discuss: What is the idea or statement being spread? How might the message help a specific cause? What biases are inherent in the message?:
- Sinead's Hand (Irish commercial)
- The Riddle
Post a comment in the COMMENT section below about what you think regarding propaganda from viewing these materials. What sorts of propaganda do you notice (or have you noticed) in our school or in your own lives? What is the message "we" want to sell you?
TASK #3: Now that you've completed tasks #1 & #2, it's your turn. Alone or with your partner, brainstorm an idea for your own graphic "flier" or "poster" advertising or using propaganda to appeal to a viewing audience. If these come out good, we'll hang them around the school.
How to do this:
Then: Create and design! I suggest using a flier template. Use the samples/models above to help you. For more ideas/models, check out this site.
I found this site, which can help you create your projects! Check this link!
HOMEWORK: Please read chapter 2 of your chosen non-fiction book: In Cold Blood or The Other Wes Moore. Bring your books back with you to our next class. If you did not read up to chapter 2, please do so.
The end of the marking period happens Friday. Make sure all missing work/projects are turned in by that time.
How to do this:
- identify a current, modern-day issue that you feel passionate about
- What images come to your mind when you think of this issue? (jot these down as notes)
- What words or phrases do you think of? Write these down too.
- Can you connect a song, poem, person, celebrity, symbol, or popular culture item to the issue?
- What colors, shapes, lines, graphic elements might be connected to this issue?
- Decide what will be your poster/ad/flier's dominant and subdominant images?
I found this site, which can help you create your projects! Check this link!
HOMEWORK: Please read chapter 2 of your chosen non-fiction book: In Cold Blood or The Other Wes Moore. Bring your books back with you to our next class. If you did not read up to chapter 2, please do so.
The end of the marking period happens Friday. Make sure all missing work/projects are turned in by that time.
All of this propaganda relates to the empowering/deflowering of LGBT rights and tries to rally us to one side. The whole issue is, personally speaking, stupid and consistently frustrating to see all these ads. People are still fighting for and against these laws and newly proposed laws right now. The parody tactic was particularly prominent in these examples, some working better than others. Not all parodies are great parodies.
ReplyDeletei feel like propaganda is used a lot through out the world they use it to make people buy things or feel better about a situation that's bad the posters that are posted on the blog i noticed that they want to fix a situation or make peace or do it for entertainment
ReplyDeleteThe means of propaganda is promote something on large or mass scale to reach a wider audience. Propaganda can be used to promote being for something or against something. In particular, LGBTQ+ rights. This discussion of this community's rights is greatly debating back and forth when it comes to propaganda and PSA's. While anti-LGBTQ+ rights strongly and aggressively promote the idea of hate with justification, parodies of such things are fired back in response to hatred and uses the message of the propaganda to basically show how much these anti ads contradict themselves. Which is still occurring today in advertisement and propaganda because a lot more needs to be done to secure the rights of this community.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how a lot of the propaganda was making fun of other propaganda. The videos all try and play to our pathos with dramatic music, fear, and sympathy. I see a lot of propaganda in the lunchroom, promoting healthy food and nutrition (which is kind of ironic if you look at the food they serve.) I also see a lot of political propaganda. Most of the political stuff I am exposed to is anti-Trump, however I am sure there is an equal amount of anti-democratic propaganda. I also see, especially in the wake of Trump, a lot of peace promoting propaganda. I think that I would want to promote healthy body image if I were to make propaganda.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Previous LGBTQ propaganda that I just recently have watched, there ares some that advocate and some that are anti. This doesn't really surprise me in a time like this that you have supporters on both sides, as well Jane Lynch making a mockery out of it, which was hilarious. As for current propaganda in my life that I see almost on a daily basis would be nonsmoking commercials, usually by truth that try and scare people out of any form of smoking.
ReplyDeletepropaganda is used a lot to influence the way we think and show us what we think we "need" but actually want. propaganda is basically used to influence people in different ways.
ReplyDeleteWhat sorts of propaganda do you notice (or have you noticed) in our school or in your own lives? What is the message
ReplyDelete- sports
- sexuality
- war
- political signs
- literature
I have noticed that propaganda is based off lies and it is everywhere. Propaganda has many different types and I have noticed they are everywhere. For example if you are walking to a store and see a poster and it is advertising something more than likely the little tiny writing under it is answering the propaganda that happens to be on the poster.
ReplyDeleteAll of these propaganda are all political and talks issues and problems in the society that existed during those time. a lot the propaganda were very, very offensive and prejudices against specific groups of people. Now that we don't live in a barbaric society(hopefully), most of these plain BS. To me, these propaganda are all dumb and nonsensical, but when I actually think about it, I realized that most of these are also issues that exist today in the world we live in. I'm not saying all of the propaganda were negative, there were some, some that promoted positive ideas and problem solving. But it's sad how some of these issues that were from more than 50 years ago is very real and still exist in this society that we live in.
ReplyDeleteSome of the propaganda that I notice in my own life consists of women rights posters that are all over our bathrooms at school. They all have a face of a lady or two on it with a big text box over the center. The main message of these posters are promoting self confidence within young women while they might be in a unstable state. Another example is the SNL skits that are making fun of something but at the same time promoting the opposite of what they make fun of.
ReplyDeleteThe propaganda videos on the blog were used to try and change people from being who they are. Some of the propaganda videos were made as parodies to make fun of the anti gay propaganda video and also in a way say that the anti gay video is pretty stupid. Propaganda around school can be the dress code flyer. It is a way to show how not to dress while also saying the girls would do "this" while the boys do "that".
ReplyDeleteThe propaganda videos on the blog were used to try and change people from being who they are. Some of the propaganda videos were made as parodies to make fun of the anti gay propaganda video and also in a way say that the anti gay video is pretty stupid. Propaganda around school can be the dress code flyer. It is a way to show how not to dress while also saying the girls would do "this" while the boys do "that".
ReplyDeleteI notice propaganda that was a anti-gay video. The message that they want to sell is that they want people to choose their side of the argument instead of being in the middle. There is propaganda everywhere and one of them is in the government. The people running for a spot use propaganda to make people vote for them.
ReplyDeleteOne sort of propaganda I've noticed are the anti-bullying posters in the hallways. The posters are used to publicize the point that people shouldn't bully because of the affects it can have on people. I noticed that propaganda can be negative and positive. Propaganda is every where from posters, to online posts, and bill-boards outside. The main message of the posters are to get their points across. The people want to see a difference.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that is being spread is that they want gay marriage to be banned and they're expressing that gay people are interfering with people and are up to no good. The main message they wanted to give out was the back and fourth between people trying to legalize gay marriage and the government isn't okay with it and the gay people are fighting back basically trying to say that there isn't anything wrong with being gay and loving the other gay person and getting married too them. ps... ZW.
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