This is your "classic" Santa Coca Cola has practically created. They use Santa as an icon, everyone know's and loves. Sweet cheerful Santa, is completing his "Good" list which if you notice, there is no naught list, to associate the theme of "good" with the tagline below. All colors are in a soft vintage film in which the logo is not. It's bright red and perfectly placed on top of the world. Maybe to represent that coke is global.
Alliteration
-Assonance
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Talk about being good
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-Repetition with vowels
-Wording is very smooth…like the drink?
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Omission
-Ellipses
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…talk about being good
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-The implied context is not Santa making the nice list,
it’s automatically assumed that Coke is the object in reference to GOOD.
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Emphatics
-Epizeuxis
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Somewhat of a repetition of “Good”
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Arrangement
-Climas
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From top of the ad to the bottom
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-Good boys, Good girls, drink Coke, talk about being good!
-arrangement of words in increasing importance as you move
down the ad.
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Visual
-Color/Hue
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Reds, greens, browns all layerd with a vintage film
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Drink Coke logo is bright red with no vintage film applied
makes image stand out
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Value
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Santas Lamp
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The use of light to highlight the “Good” list. Also use of
the lamp helps to bring out Santa’s red suit.
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Saturation
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Depth of color
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Heavy saturation in Santa’s suit, beard, lips, and red
cheeks. Using the red to tie into Coke logo
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Light
-High Conrast
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Bright lights and dark shadows
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-Lamp and illusion of obvious light
-The visual of shadows deepen as objects are further away
from the lamp
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Perspective
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Illusion of depth and space is geometric
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Diagonals
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Balanced
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Image is symmetrical and stable
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Space
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Full- The frame is dense with figures and shadows
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Focus
-Grounding
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Foreground, Middleground and background/ Slightly
compressed
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Angle
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Even
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The picture is even and eye level for intention of seeing
details such as font of book and other props that create this setting of Santa’s
office
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Long Shot
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Full portrait view, can see all of Santa’s body imply this
photo is a long shot
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Representationally
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Items that are vivid
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Santa, coke bottle, lamp, book, pen, globe, coke logo,
mini book (what is that?), desk, belt.
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Icons
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Santa
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The classic Santa compiling his list of good kids. Coke is
using a character that everyone knows and loves to promote product.
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Type
-Stroke height
-Stroke weight
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Style
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TM is bold, Good (lower) is italicized, and all fonts
seems narrow. Fonts are balanced. Narrow due to portrait positioning.
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Emphasis
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The color in the Coke logo and tagline
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Novelty
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Santa’s book.
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It’s created specifically for effect to represent his
list. Intentionally read Good boys and girls not the traditional “Naught or
Nice” .
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You are off to a good start! I enjoyed the dichotomy of the naughty and nice list throughout your tables and elaborations. Thesis wise, using the lack of a naughty list as a means to capture the audience's attention might be a good place to start.
ReplyDeleteI commend you for elaborating so much on an add with so little text. The first thing I like is how much you go into the importance of color in the ad. Most people don't put much thought into that. I also like how you analyses the relationship between being "good" and the drink itself.
ReplyDeleteYour current analysis is pretty good, but you need to focus more on one specific aspect to build a better argument. The positive association Coca-Cola makes with Santa and the "good" lists might be used to explain some of the values of the time. You could also look at the idea of traditions that is present, with the feather pen, and connect it to making Coca-Cola a holiday tradition.
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