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Welcome to another post. Today, in Money, I completed an activity about Advertising Propaganda. We had to create an advertisement for a fictional object or item.

Advertising Propaganda | Money

Welcome to another post. Yesterday, in Money (Hurumanu 4), we learnt 'Recognising Propaganda Techniques', which included Bandwagon, Testimonial, Facts and Experts, Expert and Logical Appeal.

Bandwagon

Oral-B Advertisement
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Bandwagon is a persuasive technique that invites you to join the crowd, making everybody doing it and often uses weasel words. This technique tries to persuade everyone to join in and do the same thing.

For example, your friend convinces you to go to a party by saying, "Everyone is going to be there! You'll be laughed at if you don't go, too!"

Ways to convince others is to use questions such as, do you want to be on the winning side?

Testimonial

Sprite Advertisement
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A testimonial is a statement endorsing an idea/product by a prominent person. The product can be inside our outside a particular field. Advertisers use famous people and celebrities, such as actors/actresses, athletes, musical artists, etc. In this technique, famous people promote an item and draw attention.

For example, Michael Jordan and Nike tennis shoes, Jessica Simpson on Pizza Hut commercials.

"If the celebrity/star/athlete uses the product, then it must be good, so I will purchase it."

For instance, Nike, Puma, Speedo, CocaCola, etc.


Facts and Figures Statistics

In this technique, numbers, graphs, and tables are used to show statistics of both sides.

Colgate Advertisement
Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMwR4lDTNpY

• Facts and Figures
• Statistics to prove superiority
• Magic Ingredients
• Suggests some miraculous discovery makes the product especially useful
• Hidden Fears
• Recommends that the user is safe from some danger

An advertisement might read, "This product kills 99% of your germs." Surveys may be conducted and the results graphed to show people's opinions.

Expert

Colgate Advertisement
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They use experts such as doctors, dentists, engineers, fitness trainers, to say that they recommend this product.

For example, 9 out of 10 doctors recommend using Colgate.

Logical Appeal

Clorox Advertisement
Credit: wordstream.com/blog/ws/2019/08/13/persuasive-ads

Advertisers try to convince you to make the right decision, smart decision, or the choice in purchasing their product.

Some examples: It makes sense to buy this

Choosy momes choose JIF

Save time and money with __

Shop smart, buy here

The McDonald's Dollar Menu: Eat cheap and smart at menu items only $1.00 each!

Toothpick Squares | Money - Maths

Welcome to another post on my blog. Today in Money (Maths), we presented the work that we had been focusing on for two weeks. We were first given various problems and we had to choose one of them to work on as a group. We made a group of 4 and chose a problem, 'Toothpick Squares'. We were given a few questions (Slide 2) and we had to answer them.

Our Own Money | Business Studies

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share the task that I finished in Business Studies. We had given a scenario;

To create two banknotes to be put into circulation. Either create a new value of choice or stick with the current values ($5, $10, $20, $50 or $100). Also, keep in mind the 8 characteristics of good currency:

• Generally accepted
• Durable
• Divisible
• Stable/ consistent
• Transportable
• Scarce
• Easily Recognisable
• Difficult to counterfeit

The money must be relevant to New Zealand, Christchurch or Hornby High School, and feature image or images that are important to that specific place.

Here is the currency that I made.

 

After designing the banknotes, I had to create an annotated diagram featuring one of the notes. 

Next, we had to write a paragraph explaining how the currency meets at least five of eight criteria for good currency.

One of the two banknotes that I designed was the $200 note. It is made of a thin type of plastic called "polymer", a note is waterproof and difficult to tear. As a result, these notes are durable and transportable. Both $200 and $300 are easily divisible. Polymer banknotes include many security features not accessible in paper notes. Polymer notes are more environmentally friendly than paper notes because they last more and can be recycled when they reach the end of their life in circulation. Both notes are polymer and use raised ink, these features make them difficult to counterfeit. On both notes, it is stated that there is legal tender in New Zealand. This makes them generally accepted and easily recognisable. While the money is controlled responsibility by the government, the banknotes stay scarce. The value of the money doesn't vary, it stays the same, making it a stable and consistent currency.