Tuesday, March 6, 2018

2018 Primary Photo Bombs!

Photobombs- Through political photography, find examples of how the candidate is targeting specific political themes (5) (job creation, education, security, etc). You must also comment on the visual strategies that help persuade for the candidate (camera angle, lighting, positioning, obvious "photoshopping".

The White House Flickr Stream and The Official White House page

Who is running in 2018?
Illinois Governor Candidates:

GOP Primary- Jeanne Ives vs. Bruce Rauner
Democratic Primary- Dan Biss vs.  Chris Kennedy vs.  JB Pritzker

Congressional Illinois 6th~
GOP Incumbent Peter Roskam - No Challengers until November
Democratic Challengers- Sean Casten vs. Carole Cheney vs. Kelly Mazeski

From the 2016 Campaign:
D- Hillary Clinton            Bernie Sanders

R- Jeb!             Ben Carson     Chris Christie       Ted Cruz      Carly Fiorina     John Kasich

     Marco Rubio           Donald Trump 

Obama White House Archives and Obama Flickr 



For  Wednesday-   Persuaders -Remember that the basic qualities of product advertising are at play with politics.  The difference is that you a spending a vote rather than money.  Since candidates are "products", let's see how they sell themselves to the prospective voter.  Just as you found evidence of appeals towards a specific target consumer, let's dig deeper to find how the methods of persuasion are layered in the official web sites of the candidates.  Find the evidence of the following:

A)3 "Basic Appeals"
B) 3 VALS techniques
C) 3 Example how the candidates attempting to build community around themselves/ or get various forms of "commitments" from the web page visitor (3)

After you paste your evidence, draw an arrow on the photo and provide a brief explanation of how the technique is used by the candidate for a particular effect.  I will be most impressed by successful identification of the DRAB!