Soviet Propaganda

I thought that these soviet propaganda films were great. I thought their use of symbols and many of the half-truths they used were great tools at rallying people behind their cause. I hate to say this being an illustrator, but sometimes an image of something can only go so far to drive ones point across. When these films came out it seems to drive their goal further into the minds of the viewers a lot better because they were not only being educated but also entertained by the films.

Even Santa smokes!

I seen this and thought it was pretty funny. "Everybody Loves a Good Smoke!" This is definitly an older ad but regardless of where this was located this has to be directed at children. In my opinion this is using the Testimonial technique by using Santa's fame and the headline/quote to influence people to buy Edgeworth tobacco.

2nd post

I came across this on a website called Infowars.com which seems to be filled with anti-government/conspiracy theory propaganda. This is the dvd jacket for this film. While reading a little bit of the over view of the film one of the things that really stuck out to me was "Obama is continuing the process of transforming America into something that resembles Nazi Germany". In my opinion this really plays to many peoples negative feelings of what the Nazi regime did and transferring that symbol to the current Obama administration. I believe this film is an example of the transfer type of propaganda.

First Post

In my opinion many of the Dos Equis commercials including this one I have posted use the Testimonials technique. These commercials are rather humorous but the main character of these commercials is "The Most Interesting Man in the World" and chooses to drink this beer and attempts to promote a positive desire to become cool and type of ladies man by drinking this beer. This type of marketing is similar to the way the Marlboro man was portrayed in ads.