Good Morning :)

This morning I'm feeling quite optimistic about this project. In fact, I am looking forward to going home and researching some more :)

Last night we started (well, we're nearly finished) analysing an advert for tobacco which used a famous and very attractive Hollywood actress to sell the brand. When I first saw the advert, I thought about how beautiful and glamorous the woman looked and how happy the men around her looked while they were all smoking their cigarettes. But then, when we really started analysing the advert and looking at every message the advert was sending us, I realised how fake and untrue the advert was.

It struck me how easily the advert had fooled me, a grade 11 who is taught to analyse everything she reads, and it really made me think about how well advertisers can trick people into believing that they need something that they really could live without.

All of this has inspired me to try and make this project so good, that when we give our presentation to 11B, they can feel the same way that I felt after analysing that advert.

:D Right now though, I'm going to look in Jade's fridge for some breakfast :)