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ELL
Textual Features
‘Paint it black’ title, Rolling Stones song (B)
Song symbolises a person depressed after the death of their significant other, where the world around them is seemingly painted black. This adds a desolate tone to the where the reader imagines themselves in a world painted black, alluding to my news topic of oil pollution caused by the oil industry.
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DECADENT (B)
The connotations of Decadent are self indulgence and luxury, symbolises man's overuse of fossil fuels as something that cannot be sustained and for selfish convenient reasons.
LUXURIOUS (B)
Again connotes feelings of pleasure and self indulgence at an expense of course that symbolises fossil fuels in their unsustainability and convenience.
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Cover it All (B)
Presents emotions of Gloominess and bleakness as the audience pictures a world covered with oil from oil pollution.
Oil-Based Policy (A)
The author directly identifies one of the central key reasons as to why the oil industry is still allowed to cause so much pollution which is because they are subsidised by major governments through oil based policy.
Black (Paint Colour) (B)
Paint in this poster symbolises oil and black paint often connotes evilness or harmfulness but in this case it may also refer to oil's strong black colour, invoking images of pollution in the reader's head.
Indoor/Outdoor (B)
This has some possible deep meaning as it could allude to oil-paint symbol or the fact that oil pollution can still affect us even if we are sheltered (in homes) or living in developed countries in comparison to developing countries where they do not have access to clean water or shelter.
Hazardous (B)
Has connotations of dangerous & unsafe waste to our bodies, Conveys the danger of oil pollution in regards to human health
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Visual Features
Visual features
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Oil Rig symbol with OBEY caption, Skull and Dollar symbol smaller (C)
Links to Oil Industry and their mining of oil as well as the original author of the poster "OBEY". Skull and Dollar are both two symbols placed next to the oil rig juxtaposed such that it gives the effect of the oil rig mining for these two symbols. This means that oil rigs generate money but also harm to living things whether it is humans or animals being harmed.
Outstretched hand, WE NEED YOU (A)
Again places a focus on the Americas and solidifies the text format as an early 1900s style advertisement / propaganda. This references the oil industry's strong campaigns to discredit anti-pollution movements.
Red Black White, colour scheme (C/A)
Red black and white have come to represent authoritarianism most evident in George Orwell's covers. Red and black are both considered some of the most sinister colours but the combination of them with white may show paralells to the show a darker version of the iconic American colour trio of blue, red, and white.
Oil Paint Bucket
Symbol for oil, a commercial product and symbolises the capitalism and commercialism that is based off the use of fossil fuels. Shepard Fairey is known to dislike the capitalist system and is an environmental activist, which links to the authorial intention and coverage of the international news topic.
Straight Thick Lines (A)
These lines are used here to parallel with the iconic American stripes, alluding to the American flag. Stained to highlight the fact that the US government's so called 'democracy' is tainted with funding and corruption from the oil industry.
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OBEY Cream/Mandala, Oil rig, & paint bucket logo (C)
OBEY placed throughout the piece as a sort of authorial signature. OBEY represents the use of propaganda to manipulate the public and in a way parallels with the oil industry.
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