Tuesday, 2 June 2015

What my focus group discovered -Social messaging campaign advertisement.


In addition I filmed a focus group asking a range of questions, after members of my focus group watched my completed advertisement. (The members of my focus group was aged 13-18 years of age; relating to my chosen target audience for my social messaging campaign advertisement). When I asked my focus group the first question of, ‘What is the purpose of the advertisement’? I discovered that one of members of my focus answered, “It is to communicate cyber bullying to an audience that it’s wrong and that it should be stopped”. This shows female teenagers, 13-18 years of age, understood the purpose behind the campaign’s advertisement. This shows I discovered by asking this question that my both my focus group and target audience, understood the purpose behind the advertisement. The second I asked my focus group was, ‘What do you think the target audience for this advertisement is’? One of the members of my focus group answered, “You can experience it at any age, so younger then teenagers, so anyone. But mainly teenagers”. This then shows that my advertisement can appeal to any target audience age, as they believe the advertisement message reaches all ages, but mainly teenagers; this is because cyber bullying is known to effect mainly teenagers, (males and females aged 13-18).



Furthermore I asked my focus group the third question which was, ‘How has the company targeted this audience’, one member of the focus group said, “The actor in it, is really young, and she wears youthful clothing”. This shows I have successful targeted my audience of males and females, 13-18 years of age, due to the fact I have appeal to this age group though the use of including an actor whom is in my target audience age range of 13-18, I have also targeted my audience successful though the use of costume; this is because one of members of my focus group believed the actor included wears youthful clothing; this is reflected onto my advertisement, due to the fact it then makes my campaign’s advertisement appear more up to date, as the costume included in the advertisement is youthful. I then asked my focus group the next question, ‘Do you think the campaign’s advertisement is vibrant and youthful? And why?’ one of my members of my focus group answered by saying, “The adverts not horrific, you don’t really see any graphic stuff, you just see people speaking”. This then shows that my advertisement is vibrant and youthful, as there is no negativity being included in the advert, which then makes the advertisement appear more positive and shows the campaign’s advertisement is communicating a positive message instead of a depressing and negative meaning to the audience.



I then asked the fifth question to my focus group which was, ‘Do you think the advertisement is communicating a positive message? And why?’, one of the members from my focus answered by saying, “I think it is communicating a positive message, because the person resolves it in a calm way, and then don’t lash out on everyone”. This then shows that both my focus group and my target audience believes my advert is communicating a positive message; this is because my focus group state the actor deals and resolves with the situation, (being cyber bullied online) sensible, as well as communicating to the audience what to do if they may be in similar situation. The next questioned I asked was, ‘Could you clearly see the company’s tagline of, ‘Stay connected. Stay safe’ being displayed in the advertisement successful?’, one of my members group members stated, “The tagline was very clear, towards the end of the video because it was bold and in green, which symbolices peace”. In result this shows I have successfully displayed the company’s tagline of, ‘Stay connected. Stay safe’ efficiently, due to the fact the target audience clearly saw the tagline, as well as understand the symbolic meaning behind the choice of colour being included in the text. For my last question I asked my focus group, ‘Do you think the use of incorporating use of helpful, one of the members of my focus group answered by saying, “I think it was helpful because the users can find useful details, if they could use, if they were ever in that situation”. Therefore this shows members of my target audience are fully aware that it is helpful for an campaigns’ advertisement to incorporate use of contract details, in order they feel they need help with any cyber bullying issues the audience may suffer or know others whom suffer from cyber bullying while on the Internet.


Here is my focus group:

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