Here are a few final tasks to cap off your knowledge and understanding of Adbusters. You may have completed some of these tasks already depending on your block. However since they are all so short there is no harm in doping them again. Remember that re-vision is simply doing something again!
1 - Fact finding misson
Go on the Adbusters wikipedia page (click!) and copypaste over SIX important facts. These may be related to sales circulation controverseies production and/or distribution. You will use these facts as contextual information in your final exam. You do not need to know everything but you definitely need to know something. So choose what you are going to write about now!
2 - Breaking the law
Go to the Adbusters website. Find three things that potentially may break regulations. This may include
- Incitement to criminal mischief
- Material likely to cause harm or offence
- Copyright infringement
Make sure your examples are EXPLICIT. In the final exam you will need to make reference to explcit examples to actually get marks. So copypaste examples to your blog and save yourself a LOT of hassle now!
3 - Audience interaction
Click here to read this Daily Mail article - this is a PERFECT example of audience interaction for
Now answer the following questions
- What is the Adbusters Media Foundation asking its audiences to do?
- Why?
- What laws does this possibly break?
- What do you personally think about this?
- What does the Daily Mail (a British righ-wing mid-market tabloid) think about this?
- Go to the comments section. What do the commentators think about this?
- How can Adbusters get away with such tomfoolery?
4 - Criticisms of Adbusters
Read this New York Times article.
What are some criticisms that exist regasrding Adbusters? Do you agree with these criticisms?
5 - Music video reccomendations
Next week we start exploring music videos. First we study them. Then you make one. However in order to do this we need to watch as many music videos as possible.
So please email me to reccomend me a music video to study from next week! Any genre is fine. The best videos to analyse tend to be unconventional or have lots of interesting editing techniques or setting or MES etc. No genre is off the table so unless it's going to get me arrested for showing it to you - as long as it's interesting! - we can study it!