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Oxfam and Wateraid charity adverts Oxfam  Oxfam is an international confederation of 20 organisations working together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries. The purpose of Oxfam is to help create lasting solutions to the injustice of poverty such as lack of water, children not being in education, unemployment etc. and have incorporated these issues in charity campaigns to highlight them to an audience so they can also participate in many ways to help them. Each charity advert is less than 2 minutes long which means the audience viewing it will be able to spare a few minutes of their time to watch it and by the adverts being a few minutes long, it means there will be a lot of information in it for the audience to take in and help the charity. an advert for Oxfam In this advert for Oxfam, at the beginning shows a mother living in a materially deprived area of Africa with her children having to travel far to fetch water for her and family to...

Dizzee Rascal Dream and Beyoncé Formation analysis     Dizzee Rascal- Dream and Beyoncé –formation analysis and comparison Beyoncé Formation The music video for Formation gives off many messages to the audience watching it. The messages that are given off are: female empowerment and oppression within the black community in America. Female Empowerment comes within many forms in the video such as changes in dressing, ways they should act, embracing their ethnicity and being able to live the same lifestyle as a man would in this generation/ society through the use of visual codes such as expression, camera movement, camera angles, clothing and performance. She also highlights oppression within the black community such as police brutality against young, innocent black males and females and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the residents who were living in New Orleans. The music video was released in 2016, when the movement for the ‘Black Lives Matte...