February 7, 2008
Election Notebooking Pages - 3
Better late than never! Here’s installment number 3, focusing on campaign advertising.
Contents of this installment:
- “Political Advertising” section page
- “Production and Propaganda” info page 1
- Info page 2
- Campaign Ad Production Analysis Worksheet - page 1
- Worksheet page 2
- Worksheet page 3
- Instructions for propaganda pages
- Propaganda page 1
- Propaganda page 2
- Propaganda Booklet: Name Calling
- Propaganda Booklet: Glittering Generalities
- Propaganda Booklet: Transfer
- Propaganda Booklet: Testimonial
- Propaganda Booklet: Plain Folks
- Propaganda Booklet: Bandwagon
- Propaganda Booklet: Fear
- Propaganda Booklet: Faulty Logic
18-34. Black and White (B&W) versions of the above.
Links:
- The Washington Post has a Political Ads Database that includes ads from the current campaign
- The Living Room Candidate - Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004.
- The Thirty Second Candidate - Click “Tricks of the Trade” for an interesting demonstration of how video can be edited to convey different messages for campaign ads.
[*Note: Much of the information about propaganda on these pages is adapted from PropagandaCritic.com.]
Susy said,
February 8, 2008 @ 8:28 am
Sorry, http://www.mphomeschool.com/election.pdf is giving me a 404 error. I’m looking forward to seeing what you’ve done though, should be interesting stuff!
Mom said,
February 8, 2008 @ 8:45 am
Oops. There was supposed to be a 3 in there. Thanks for catching that. When will my computer learn to read my mind and do what I MEANT instead of what I WROTE?
urbanbutterfly said,
February 9, 2008 @ 2:13 am
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! This is just perfect!!! Wonderful job!!!!!!!! I cannot wait to teach this next week!!!
Susy said,
February 9, 2008 @ 8:12 am
Wow, great stuff! You’ve done such a good job on these, thanks for sharing them!
Reminds me of this video, politicians can make ANYTHING go negative!
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-wh-campaign,0,2078891.flash
Mom said,
February 9, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
Butterfly, glad you liked it!
Susy, great vid!