This document discusses different narrative styles and advertising techniques: 1) A realist narrative aims to faithfully represent everyday reality without dramatization, while an anti-realist narrative uses surreal ideas and special effects not found in real life. 2) Animation is a technique that can be used to create engaging ads on a low budget through the use of colors and movement. 3) Documentaries tell a story and Nokia used this style to show the impact of screens on our lives from movies to TV to computers to phones. 4) "Talking heads" ads feature people discussing a product to sell it in a neat, professional way using actors delivering scripted lines.

1. REALIST NARRATIVE
A realist narrative is a faithful representation of reality. It shows what happens every
day to middle of lower class without romantic idealization or dramatization. Below
you can the see a screenshot of the EE advert when Kevin Bacon has a crowd of
people doing the conga.
That’s
Me!

2. ANTI-REALIST NARRATIVE
Anti-Realism narrative is not real life situations. They are
programs which are based on surreal ideas and dreams.
These products usually use CGI (Computer Generated
Images) and special effect editing. Below is a real life scene
however they have programmed the Churchill dog to be
talking.

3. ANIMATION
Animation is a technique of editing which can be used to create a
great advert. Some company’s use this an advantage as they can
use a low budget advert but still make it interesting to watch. Below
is the McDonalds animated advert, and as you can see this
animation does not seem to have a lot of investment around it,
however it is still interesting watch and does not bore the audience
because of all the different colors.

4. DOCUMENTARY
In this unique and rare advert which is almost 2 1/2 minutes
long, Nokia impressed their audience making the advert like an epic
documentary. When watching this advert, it covers the impact that
four screens - movie, TV, computer and cell phone screens - have on
our lives. The movie screen starts off as socially interactive as
people meet in the cinema. Then from cinema, to watching TV with
friends and family. It cleverly leads on to computers and then to
phones, which in this case would be the Nokia. Therefore by
showing their advert in this technique, it demonstrates a
documentary form of advertising

5. TALKING HEADS
Talking head adverts are ads that show people or one person talking about a product and it
just shows there head in the shot. In this Oral-B advert, it shows different groups of buyers
i.e. the audience, explaining exactly what to expect when purchasing this product. What Oral-
B do to make this advert a success is have a wide range of the audience sell their product to
make the viewers feel like there is no catch to it. When really the audience that Oral-B choose
are most likely Actors/Actresses that are given scripts on what to say. This is to make the
mise-en-scene neat and professional, and at the same time sell their product to the best
ability

6. This advert shows the dangers of using a mobile phone
while driving. This is shown in a plain but clever way as it
points out the obvious facts for road safety, made by car
manufacturer Opel. The cool print has a black
background, replicating a phone while at the same time
making the white box of text all the more prominent.
This shows the target audience to be of course to all
drivers any age or gender and can be targeted at The
Reformer. This uses a persuasive technique called
Pathos, which is shown in the text message as it pulls on
the audiences emotions to turn a negative into a
positive by sending out a warning about text messaging
and driving.

7. THE EXPLORER
These people are driven by a need for
discovery, challenge and new frontiers. Young in
nature, if not in reality, Explorers' are often he first
to try out new ideas and experiences. Their core
need in life is for discovery.
Here is an example of the women's golf print based
advert sponsored by MasterCard. This advert gives
women status on their appearance because of the
heels. Whilst also showing that they can do it better
then the men by doing it in 6 inch heels, which also
cleverly symbolizes the tee and golf ball. With this
clever heel being on top of a golf hill which shows
dominance and confidence,
PSYCHOGRAPHICS