Reference no: EM133344805
Topic: Identifying Stories Used in Advertising Messages to Relate to Audiences
The person who shapes and designs the words in advertising is called a copywriter. "Copy" is the text of an ad or the words people say in a commercial. Copywriters begin with the strategy and creative brief. Then, working with the artistic help of an art director or creative director, the creative team brainstorms ideas to form magic words and powerful visuals that translate a message into an attention-grabbing and memorable communication with a target audience.
To start developing advertisements, you must first develop the strategy and brief of what you want to get across to the audience, ensuring the "creative brief" is designed for the specific mass media selected.
Marketing communication objectives include the thinking, feeling, and actions a company wants to get across to the target audience. With the increasing variety of media options available, companies will usually hold creative meetings for cross-functional media planning. Media and message strategy are interdependent, and decisions affect IMC.
The message strategy is the primary tactic or approach used to deliver the message theme. When creating messages for a variety of target audiences and cross-functional media, content becomes critical for success.
Writing messages for specific target audiences is easier when using stories people have heard often that are part of everyone's culture. Graeme Newell, with 602 Communications, presents how to position a brand image using seven stories that have changed the world. View Positioning a Brand: Seven Stories that Changed the World (Newell, 2012) and answer the following questions.
- List the seven archetype stories that changed the world.
- Go online and find a commercial for a product that represents one of the archetypes and identify the relationship between the advertisement and the story archetype.
- How does this story affect your thoughts or feelings about the promoted product?
- In relation to an archetype story, format a one-line statement that best describes your course product - as viewed by your chosen target market! You are looking for brevity and clarity of the message.
- Describe the primary appeal you are using for the message you just created and explain why this appeal will work for your target market.