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Advertising Quest

 

 

 

 

An InfoQuest exploring the world of advertising

 

 

 

Cut out 3 classified ads from a newspaper and say why you would or wouldn't answer these ads.
Choose a TV advertisement that annoys you. Make 3 suggestions for its improvement.
Keep a record over 3 days of TV advertising for children. Create a table and categorise the ads.
Collect advertising flyers that come in junk mail. Use them to create a wall chart that highlights persuasive language.
Create an advertisment for your school that could go on the school's website. You could do this as a web page.

Locate 3 of your favourite websites. Give their addresses and report on the ads found at each one. Who are they designed for? How do they catch your attention? Are they selling a product or informing you?

What are some of the main purposes of advertising? Create a poster to illustrate these purposes.
Read the information at Thinkquest. Design a Mindmap that summarises the information on this page.
You have 25 words to sell your house or car. Model your advertisement on examples from the real estate or motoring section of the newspaper.

Examine these sites:

Toys R Us

Disney Online

Kelloggs Co

Look for invitations to join clubs, enter contests and other tricks to collect personal information from the user. Categorise the advertisements.

Find 5 examples of Informative advertising and 5 examples of Persuasive advertising. Explain their differences.
Create a short TV commercial giving reasons why you think the opposite sex should be attracted to you..
Go to the Advertising section of Youngmedia Read the information and design a facts file on Children and Advertising.
You are the CEO of an advertising company. Using your best advertising strategies design an ad for an adolescent magazine for the slogan Don't Smoke.

Identify and make a list of ads in newspapers, magazines, internet, tv or radio that you consider

*Misleading

*Controversial

*Playing on fear

You are the advertising manager of a magazine for teenagers. Collect a range of 20 advertisements that you would consider suitable for your magazine. Explain in a paragraph why you have chosen these advertisements.

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