The advert I have chosen to analyse is the 'Original Source' shower gels advert. The target audience for this advert is young women between the ages of 16 to 35.

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The advert I have chosen to analyse is the 'Original Source' shower gels advert. The target audience for this advert is young women between the ages of 16 to 35. The text's purpose is to persuade the reader to purchase the Original Source shower gels range by making it seem that their product as the best available on the market and its range of unique features. This advert uses both words and pictures in equal proportion to attract, inform and persuade the reader to buy their product.

The first thing the reader is attracted to is the main picture, which takes up most of the right hand side of the advert. Here the use of size attracts the reader's attention, making them curious to find out what the advert is about. The picture features the mint shower gel from the range with the lime shower gel set back slightly, but still clearly visible. This is cleverly used to subconsciously inform the reader of other shower gels in the range. In the bottom right of the main picture is a lime and some herbs; these appeal to the reader's sense of smell; implying that when you open the shower gel bottle this is the natural smell you would be greeted with therefore persuading the reader that these products are subsequently better than any other on the market. The lime and herbs show that its natural and healthy. The mint shower gel bttle is covered in droplets of water (another natural element) suggesting that it has just been taken out of or used in someone's shower. This gives the reader the impression that this is a straightforward, ready to use, shower gel.

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There is one other smaller picture in this advert, situated in the bottom left hand corner. This picture focuses on the different shower gels in the Original source collection. The picture shows all of the seven shower gels in the range; once again luring the reader into buying all the different variants. Directly below this picture is the caption which is written in small, clear, capital letters which makes the text even easier to read. The text informs the reader of the 7
different variants in the range, giving each of the different fruity name and telling the reader the ...

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