This Girl Can and I Feel Pretty Feedback
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EBI
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What terminology or
theories could have been
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Rewritten version (chose
one of the exemplars)
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Exemplar
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In the ‘I Feel Pretty’
advert the protagonist Maria Sharapova is solely empowered via a series of
close ups and mid shots where shallow focus and tracks are used in order to
keep the audiences’ attention on her. As well as all of the other actors’ are
watching her as they all sing the song. Eyeline matches are used to show that
the actors are watching the protagonist throughout. This empowers the
protagonist, as she is a young woman receiving everyone’s attention even that
of the advert’s John McEnroe whose appearance is significant due to his
famous tennis profile as an angry and foul-tongued sportsman.
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She/he described the it
very clearly and used lots of media terminology. She/he illustrated their
knowledge of feminism and how women are being treated.
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There is no need to mention
the name of famous tennis player instead he could of picked out more point
about the advert and added them in.
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. representation
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.shot types
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In the ‘I feel pretty’
advert the protagonist Maria Sharapova is shown as an important woman via a
series of close ups and mid shots where shallow focus and tracks are used in
order to keep the audience’s attention on her. Furthermore, the other actors
in the video look at her which can suggest that she important for society.
She is receiving everyone’s attention as she is a young beautiful woman and
Van zoonens theory can be applied to this as she is being objectified as
beautiful throughout the video, which means no matter what sport girls do
they should always be considered always beautiful and objectified as
beautiful. However, in this girl can advert woman are represented as powerful
and unique. The connotation that woman are playing sport suggests that they
can dominate man and show them that they are not the only ones that can play
physical sports. In ‘I feel pretty’ advert Maria Sharapova is shown wearing a
tight costume which shows a bit of her cleavage, this suggests that woman are
always portrayed as sexual objects. Van zoonen theory can be applied here of
woman bodies always being objectified. In the advert people are singing and
the idea that Maria Sharapova does not take notice can suggest she is focused
woman and does not take effect on the paparazzi as she is walking up right
looking powerful making the others around her look weak.
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Exemplar
2
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This Girl Can advert
encourages women to support each other. A long shot captures women in the ad
hugging each other. This suggests that one aim of the ad is to unite females.
A sound technique that further supports this point is diegetic sound. In the
changing room, the woman’s rugby team can be heard chanting. This suggests
that the director wants women to work together as one. Therefore, this ad can
be seen as a response to the jealousy we typically see from women nowadays
like in the Nike Advert.
Both adverts show that
women can be more than just “pretty”. In the two adverts we see the
over-the-shoulder show being used to show the women putting their make-up on.
In the Nike ad sound techniques and camera techniques reveal that people are
surprised by Sharapova’s tennis ability. When she returns the serve the
camera does a whip pan. Commonly a whip pan suggests that the camera was
surprised by the activity. In addition, from the diegetic sound, we can hear
the crowd is silenced by her shot.
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She/he analyses the adverts
with details and uses media terminology to describe the scene and meaning of
it. She/he understands the meaning of the advert and responds with great knowledge.
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She/he can add more vivid
details instead of always mention this suggest or therefore, they can expand
their answer.
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Van zoonen
Bell hooks
The use of different
shot types or editing.
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Exemplar
3
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Through the use of a
crosscut we recognize that Sharapova has changed her costume from a white
costume to her chosen dress. The dress is another symbol of femininity. She
is also shown wearing jewelry: necklace and earrings. This is evident in the
beginning and end of the advert. The use of an over-the-shoulder shot and
handheld camera shot allows us to notice it. However, in the This Girl Can
jewelry isn’t noticeable as their unique selling point was to put forward
that woman can do anything and that women are strong, determined and fierce.
This supports the success of feminism and how it has progressed and gained
attention throughout all the three feminist waves. The idea of the women in
the advert being strong is evident in the head on shot with a girl boxing.
Boxing is known to be a physical sport, mainly dominated by males, however,
this shot take disapproves that ideology. The idea of the woman being focused
and determined is clear in Sharapova’s advert. Many close-ups show her facial
expressions. Her facial expression gives the impression that she is
completely ‘zoned in’ and focus. One could suggest the music and the over
exaggerated singing are distractions for Sharapova. However, the fact that
she doesn’t notice or acknowledge everyone singing further emphasises that
idea that she is focused. A zoom and slow motion is used to show the woman
struggling but carrying on in the This Girl Can advert. This references the
title ‘This Girl Can’ and refers to the voiceover, which is meant to be
motivated. The idea of struggles is evident in the Sharapova advert. We see a
constant struggle for Sharapova as she’s constantly being bombarded by the
paparazzi when she’s in the car and when she’s entering the arena. There’s a
track to represent the paparazzi following her, which gives the audience an
idea of how hard and how public life is.
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She/he used loads of
terminology and they analyzed the advert with great vivid details and shown
clear understanding of both adverts. They used great knowledge of how woman
are being represented and shown in the two adverts. Furthermore, they use
great examples from the adverts which demonstrates she/he have great ideas of
how woman should be treated and honored.
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The person can improve of
structuring the paragraph better and
use more terminology and more shot s otherwise this is a great standard
work
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Van zoonen
Bell hooks
Judah Butler
Sound
Editing
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Exemplar
4
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In the “This Girl Can”
advert uses a different approach instead of showing how much of an
inspiration one woman –Maria Sharapova – is, they decide to show how
inspirational all types of women can be. They successfully achieve this
through a montage. This montage shows women sweating and smiling. This
connotes to us that they have been partaking in activities. This shows us
that there’s no longer the restrictions that there once were surrounding
women and sport. Also, during this montage there was a range of women. There
were white women, black women, Muslim women and a disabled woman. This
connotes to the audience that there isn’t one type of woman that isn’t
capable of partaking in sports. This is helped through the narrator’s use of
direct address, “and your great grandmother”. This direct address is used to
try and inspire and add a personal side to the advert. In this montage,
Judith Butler’s gender performativity theory is present. This theory states
that when you were younger, society made you act a certain ways, the way that
your gender is ‘supposed to act’. However, as you grow up, you start to act
independently and in a way you think you should act. The examples of this
come through with girls with short/shaved hair, a stereotypically male thing.
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This person understands
Judah Butlers theory and demonstrates some knowledge of the adverts, the
person illustrates the meaning of some of the signifiers in the advert.
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The person needs to make
their paragraph clearer and add more terminology and use variation of the
adverts and expand on his answers instead of always writing few words. They
need to demonstrate greater knowledge
of the adverts and pick out more shots in order to help the
demonstrate ideology and terminology
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Representation
Shots
Sound
Editing
Van zoonen
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Exemplar
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In the beginning of the “I
Feel Pretty” advert, van Zoonen’s theory that women’s bodies are objectified
is displayed as Maria Sharapova looks directly into the mirror. A medium shot
is used to show the audience Maria trying to put on a serious look, so dhe feels
confident, which may enable her to win the match. This is very typical of a
woman to do looking at the mirror so that they feel nice and beautiful,
because in reality sport stars like Maria Sharapova will be judged on their
appearance more than men, so this pressures women to look nice and
presentable. There is a voiceover that says “well she should win,” this is
referring back to sharapova that there is an expectation to win the game so
in order for her to feel confident and have the greater possibility to win
she has to psych herself up. Butler and van Zoonen’s theory are linked in the
part of the advert whre the audoience see Sharapova walking in the corridor
and a cleaner is standing there singing. The use of the long shot used shows
the height difference, which may emphasise the status difference for example
Sharapova is taller than the lady, this may have been presented to show the
audience how important Sharapova is and the ordinary lady who works as a
cleaner has no importance. Also, Sharapova’s costume is very tight fitted on
her body, which exposes a bit of cleavage and stomach this links to Butler’s
theory that woman and men have to wear and act certain things as well as that
van Zoonen says women’s bodies are seen as objects. Sharapova is dressed that
way so we can see how her costume brings out her well worked out bodt. Also,
it may influence her to show off some skin, as the media often portrays women
as objects and to label women who show off a bit of skin and cleavage as
sexy, but women who dress more conservatively as boring.
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This person has put forward
great knowledge of the advert and has used great theories examples, which can
connote they have analyzed the advert with loads of terminology and has used
great examples from the advert. This person demonstrates the idea of
objectification really clearly and knowledgably. They have understood what
the advert is trying to put forward and explains the meaning. They also pick
the most little point and explain them in detail.
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This person should of
talked about the advert as well and if they did they talk about the advert
they could of used the same details as they did in this one which could of
demonstrate great understanding of both adverts and knowledge, otherwise this
exemplar has shown great understanding
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Bell Hooks
Sound
Editing
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Exemplar
6
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In the second advert ‘This
Girl Can’ tries to convey to the audience the diversity that women have
gained. The visuals of the advert are colourful and eyecatching there are
many close ups of their facial expressions. They are seen to be cheerful.
This could be linked to the fact women have a lot more opportunities in
society and are able to do what make them happy. In this advert they are
embracing what women are capable to doshowing the maternal side and the
sporty side that a woman can possess. One camare movement is tracking as they
follow the characters when they are taking part in an activity.
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This person have used great
terminology and understanding of the advert, they have explained it in detail
and used shots and explained the meaning of them.
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They can expand their
answers and use more vivid details and show better knowledge of the advert.
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Bell Hooks
Representation
Sound
More shots
Editing
Judah Butler
Van zoonen
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