Analyse the department of the Environments latest TV advert. How effective is the advert for its audience and do you think it is a success? This advert is called Bedtime Stories;

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Analyse the department of the Environment’s latest TV advert. How effective is the advert for its audience and do you think it is a success?  

This advert is called “Bedtime Stories”; it is produced by the Department of the Environment which is a Government agency. It was first shown on the 17th October at 7:30pm which is prime time viewing and it cost £6 million to promote of our money. In the advert there is a father who is telling his little girl a bedtime story about CO2 destroying our planet. At first the little girl has a happy face but then when her father starts to read her face changes and she looks upset and innocent, as she realises that this story many not “have a happy ending.” Some people dislike this advert because parents seeing it and think all the pressure is on them and it is emphasising that they have to save the planet for there kids.  

In the establishing shot we are in a cosy middle class family house, the camera starts on the landing with dark shadows across it in to a child’s bedroom with piano music playing in the background which we associate with a horror film which makes us want to carry on watching. When you start watching the advert you don’t know what it is about because it isn’t an ordinary advert about saving the world. Across the landing we can see a father and his daughter reading a bed time story and they look venerable. The camera zooms in slowly we are at there level seeing it from a child’s point of view.

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The camera then cuts to inside the bedroom, we see a father telling his little daughter a Bedtime Story. They are both sitting on the bed, the fathers arm is around the little girl comforting and protecting her. We see that this girl has a beam of light shinning on her so they are emphasising that it is the children that are going to suffer then we get a close up of her face and she looks very innocent and angelic. In her bedroom there is a panda which is the symbol of the World Wide Fund, the panda looks ...

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