Media Language and Representation: Unseen Advertisement

Analyse how the poster advertisement (Source A) has created meaning through the use of Media Language in this source by comparing it to the Shelter advertising campaign.

Amnesty use a hand to cut the barbed wire instead of scissors of wire cutters is because it shows peace, this also links with the fact that the hand is in the peace sign showing how they do peaceful protests. The barbed wire represents how people are taking away peoples human rights, for example, some people are forced into a life of slavery meaning their human rights are being taken away, so Amnesty are showing how they fight this with peace and cut the wire restricting people from their human rights.

Shelter follows similar colours by using the red but also black. Both this charities are very different so take different approaches, as seen Amnesty doesn't use actors as they don't take a picture, it is drawn but still has a deeper meaning. Shelter uses actors as it is important to see the facial expressions which are almost expressionless.