3 Historical Adverts...

shake and Vac

In this advertisement promoting shake an vac; a product which will be used to sprinkle over carpet before someone does the hoover. In the advert however, we all see a women using the product which immeditately distiguishes that the product is targeted to women. Also, in the advert the women is dressed in a stereotypical outfit of a housewife which assumes and represents women as housewifes were they stay indoors and clean.

Flash

In this advertisement the advert is trying to promote and persuade customers into purchasing the domestic cleaning product flash. As the shake and vac advert their are also similar elements of the representation of women being housewifes. however, in the flash advert it is more persuasive for women as it has a female voiceover which they give their opinion on the product.

Flake

In the advertisement above it is trying to persuade people intou buying the new cadbury's flake chocolate. In the beginning we see the women un wrapping and eating the chocolate. The chocolate in this instance is acting like a falic symbol to erouse men into thinking that the women is ment to be eating something else.