A-Level Media Exam Blog 2- Mr Pall

  Your Advertising and Marketing index should include the following: 1)  Advertising: Introduction to advertising 2)  Advertising: the representation of women in advertising 3)  Advertising: Gauntlett and masculinity 4)  Advertising: Score hair cream CSP 5)  Advertising: Introduction to Postcolonialism 6)  Advertising: Sephora Black Beauty is Beauty CSP

  Work through the following tasks to make sure you're an expert on the Sephora CSP and particularly the wider social and cultural contexts. Wider reading on Sephora Black Beauty Is Beauty Read these articles on the Sephora campaign:  The Drum: Black Beauty is Beauty by RGA Glossy: Sephora celebrates Black beauty in new digital and TV campaign Refinery29: Sephora’s ‘Black Beauty Is Beauty’ Short Film Celebrates Black Innovation Complete the following questions/tasks: 1) What was Sephora trying to achieve with the campaign? Sephora has launched ‘Black Beauty is Beauty’, a new campaign celebrating the countless Black traditions and inventions that have propagated the beauty trends we all know and love – from stylized baby hairs and cut-crease eyeshadow to glitter and shea butter-based skincare. The campaign is part of the retailer’s broader commitment to advancing racial equity in the beauty and retail sectors. 2) What scenes from the advert are highlighted as particularly significan

  Read ‘The Theory Drop: Postcolonialism and Paul Gilroy’ in MM75  (p28). You'll   find our Media Magazine archive here  - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions on your blog: 1) Look at the first page. What is colonialism - also known as  cultural imperialism?   From the 16th  century onwards, European countries  effectively got into a race to see how  many undiscovered lands they could  conquer first, and by ‘undiscovered’ I  mean, ‘countries where the indigenous  population didn’t have good enough  weapons to fight back’. Countries like  France, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal  and Britain effectively turned into the  seagulls from Finding Nemo, zipping  around, shouting ‘MINE’ at every new  piece of land they discovered. They  fought and conquered the native  populations, and often fought each  other for the rights to those lands. Now collectively known as ‘cultural  imperialism’ or ‘colonialism’ – the belief  that native