Media Test Learner Response

 Media Test Learner Response

Question 6 Rewrite:

- Charities might use pictures of children in their advertisements to evoke feelings of pity and guilt that would drive donations. they could also show children to highlight their vulnerable condition and emphasize their innocence and helplessness. Intense images of children in unfortunate situations will place a sense of responsibility but also urgency onto viewers and the Water Aid advert displays this with the main subject being the child at the centre of the frame staring directly at the camera which would place responsibility on the viewers but also creates tension between viewers and the child. The advert also achieves this by placing the subject in an area with a background with huts which connote poverty to 1st world viewers furthering this narrative of a helpless child in need of help.  


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