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__**Even though propaganda is commonly used by advertising companies, its manipulative nature is dangerous and deceptive to the common consumer.**__

Public Service Announcement Script:

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-black screen with white text flying onto the screen. -text(flying): Throughout history... -voice: “Throughout history”. -image:fade in to Marlboro Man. -fade out to black screen. -text(flying): They’ve tried to convince you. -voice: “They’ve tried to convince you”. -text(flying):... -voice: “Dot Dot Dot”. -image: fade in to Vive Cuervo ad. -voice: “Pursue your daydreams”. -image: fade in to emergency ad. -voice: “Don’t your prepare for emergencies”. -image: fade in to Rebecca beer ad. -voice: “Because you don’t have the balls without it”. -image: fade in to Big Mac ad. -voice: “Are you Mac enough?”. -image: fade in to Camel ad. -voice: “Smooth” -image: fade in to Red Bull ad. -voice: “Red Bull gives you wings”. -text(flying): Don’t be fooled by propaganda. -voice: “Don’t be fooled by propaganda”. -image: fade in to Jack Daniels. -voice: “This could kill you”. -image: fade in to gun. -voice: “This will definitely kill you”. -image: fade in to cigarette ad -voice: “This will kill you”. -image: fade in to beer. -voice: “Ditto”. -image: fade in to big mac. -voice: “There is absolutely no chance you will survive”. -image: fade in to boy smoking. -voice: “I don’t think he’s gonna live”. -text(flying): Don’t get killed -voice: “Don’t get killed”. -image: fade in to Camel ad. -text(flying): Use your own judgment. -voice: “Use your own judgment...”. -image with text: fade in to George Orwell with text, Brought to you by, dontgetkilled.edu. -image: George Orwell fade out -end

Producers' Note: The main goal of our PSA is to communicate that the consumers have not been educated in reading advertisements and in turn are duped by companies who promote unhealthy products by providing false claims. Guns, tobacco, and fast food restaurants are just a few industries that advertise their products in a positive way even though they are negative for the consumer. Our PSA puts together a chilling "documentary" if you will, about well-known products/commercials. We have picked apart these commonly seen ads and revealed their true intention, which is to trick you. You will change your mind about common products after seeing our PSA. The inspiration of our choices to discover the truth about these ads came from Orwell's character, Winston. Since he is part of the outer party with his desire to discover the truth. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words" (45). Syme's destruction of words creates propaganda and is depicted through the advertisements in our PSA. Winston sees through the propaganda just like he sees through the party. Up until the end of the book he believed the party could be destroyed. He talked about propaganda and how history was changed to benefit the party. "All history was a palimpsist, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary" (36). This holds true in today's society with all the propaganda created in political advertisements. Political advertisements will twist and bend the truth as necessary to create a false but pleasing image. Most sites that we visited included articles that overall were not helpful at all. Most of our bibliography consists of images that were necessary to our PSA. The textual evidence came from George Orwell's book, //1984// and not the internet. We did find a couple of articles that were helpful for understanding the ideals of propaganda. Such as this site, <[|http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda_techiniques>.] This site included many techniques used by advertising companies. The techniques used in propaganda have been used over many decades convincing consumers that their products are good for them.

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