The Influence Of Propaganda Posters

Both negative and positive, propaganda affects our lives daily sometimes without us even acknowledging that it exists. The main goal of propaganda is trying to sell your product or idea to other people, one major form of Propaganda occurs in the news. Propaganda is used for companies and trend setters who want to get their products and ideas out in the world so that they could potentially become popular. Smart propagandists discovered that to create the best propaganda, the viewer must not even realize that the product or idea is being sold to them. Propaganda creates an extremely large impact on us and is sometimes mistaken for being “just another advertisement” when they actually change the way we live our lives.

For example this propaganda poster is encouraging Australian men to enlist in the war. The use of second person in the poster pressures men to go help out by using word “you” and talking directly to the viewer. Also having woman and a child in the poster is compelling the man because the woman and child rely on the father/husband for protection as well as the sense of guilt felt if the viewer is not going out to help the others in war. This source is reliable because it is from the Australian War Memorial. Although the source is propaganda, it provides a clear understanding of why people wanted to join the war at the time.

The poster was a way the government persuaded desolate women to do exactly what they wanted. Although the poster portrayed a sense of mourning and anguish, it convinced the women to emerge from depression and strive for a sense of accomplishment. The fifth poster (refer to Figure 5) is a well-known poster of World War II. It is a picture of “Rosie the Riveter” (a fictional character the government created to help campaign to women wanted in the workforce) flexing her muscle with a serious look on her face. The posters read: “We Can Do It.”

Propaganda is a form of rhetoric that manipulates information to influence public opinion. It lacks critical balance as it overemphasizes elements that support a position and ignores opposing viewpoints. Although propaganda, in its original sense, could be used to promote positive causes, it has acquired a negative connotation and is used as a pejorative to describe ideological messages that people usually disagree with. Film is regarded as the most effective medium to distribute propaganda to a large audience of different classes. “In comparison with other arts, film has a particular forceful and lasting psychological and propagandistic impact because of its effect not on the intellect, but principally on the emotions and the visual sense” (Interview with Fritz Hippler qtd.

Adolf Hitler once said, “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” (“Adolf Hitler Quotes”). During World War II, the economy in Germany was struggling severely and the Germans wanted someone to blame. Under Hitler’s rule, he gave Germany just that, causing the persecution of millions of Jewish people. During the Holocaust, the Nazis used propaganda as a tactic to help people deceive themselves; Germans, Jews, and people from all around the world were affected by this propaganda, among them, a Jewish survivor, Martin Kapel, whose life was thrown off course and impacted by Nazi ideals from a young age.

The techniques used to persuade the citizens contain very simple techniques of propaganda; plain folks and bandwagon are the two main ones. These types of propaganda are very useful and very easily caught on by the masses. What I mean by that is that everyone can either relate to the propaganda being used or have some sort of understanding of it. This by far is probably the most easiest and inexpensive propaganda to use as well as being simple with not much time to spend on producing in whatever way or form you decide to place it or put out.

This is achieved through propaganda and can be done in several ways, such as, Hitler and the Jews. In camps, the Jews participated in dehumanization in the acts of taking away their clothes, hair, names, and even going as far as possessing their thin bodies so they no longer looked human. Another example can be seen in almost every country country in the world when it comes to armies. In order to best inspire their soldiers to fight the enemy, high powers try to manipulate the faces of the enemy to evoke feelings of hatred using methods such as using stereotypes of their faces and only portraying one side of the story.

The photo is stating that driving alone supports Hitler and brings him closer to America, and car-sharing is the solution to stop that. In the picture, it shows a man driving with a silhouette of Hitler and displayed at the top is the slogan “When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler” . This is an example because they show that it’s wrong to drive alone, and the slogan supports the picture by saying “riding alone is the equivalent to riding with Hitler”. The picture also displays the types of propaganda, fear and transfer. They use fear by placing him next to the driver’s seat, and they use transfer by using his image to encourage viewers to go to car-sharing clubs. It is important to understand propaganda in the advertisement because propaganda

This propaganda poster illustrates the struggle to unite and break free from the ties of man, in order to get rid of the cause of your obstacles. The willingness to follow your own into rebellion is also something that is evident when the aspiration is to resist and get rid of the enemy. Depictions of the animals being exploited for their hard work is meant to argue breaking the cycle and gaining independence for themselves and their resources. This expression is targeting the innocence and victimization of the animals and is meant to make the animals realize that they have to come together and take a stand against humanity.

In my propaganda I utilized three forms of propaganda such as bandwagon, card stacking, and testimonial. The use of bandwagon in my ad was mentioning how much bottles of my perfume has already been sold and then ending that statement by asking if the person will be the next buyer. Another use of propaganda I used was card stacking by saying the fragrance is all natural, great for sensitive skin, cruelty free to favor multiple groups of people. Lastly, I used testimonial by using a well-known model (Rosie Huntington- Whiteley) advertise the perfume. Therefore I covered three forms of propaganda in my advertisement for the perfume I

When one hears the word “comic,” his or her first thought may be of superheroes, newspaper strips, or, in the broadest sense, fiction. The avant grade style of the typical

I found the two assigned readings this week quite compelling and extremely thought-provoking. Specifically, the questions that both raised surrounding notions of the determined value of art and the need to decolonize the monetary exchanges about art between Africans and Western traders/collectors.

The use of propaganda posters was a logical way to depend on public support to help with victory or defeat during the times of war. During World War 2, Canada frequently trusted propaganda posters for public support. Through the heavy use of elements and techniques, my image and slogan sent a message that joining the military was the patriotic thing to do, particularly in the context of fighting evil. Upon looking at my poster, “Destroy This Mad Beast” along with the image of Hitler taking over the world, emotions of dread and fear are conveyed to the audience. There is a strong desire to help out the country and a feeling of hatred towards the enemy. The first aspect that conveys these emotions is the colour scheme. The use of dull colours

“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to, consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.”

There are two types of propaganda: sociological propaganda; the spreading of an ideology through the mass media, and political propaganda; efforts that are sponsored by governments and political groups that alter a persons’ interests. All propaganda has a direction, and the overall quality determines whether it will have a positive or negative effect over the masses. Our entire nation is a vast propaganda operational system that is greatly linked to education, consumerism and politics. A great deal of what makes up propaganda and how it is placed among the masses lies in understanding the overall emotional and physical states of these groups of people and in finding a way to draw a persons’ attention to capture their hearts, breaking down