David Cameron Poster
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- BaskerviIle
Some of you UKers will have seen the new Conservative party poster which is just insane in the amount of airbrushing of david cameron's face:
So I've created a template with editable text since I thought it was ripe for playing with or a PSB. http://www.mediafire.com/?gzzzzm…
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- airey0
you might like charlie's article mentioning this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commen…"Even a preposterous advertising campaign can't dent the Tories. All over London, billboards depict Cameron looking you in the eye with an expression of genteel concern, accompanied by the slogan "We can't go on like this". To the observer, the overall effect is that of a man trying to wriggle out of an unfulfilling sexual relationship without hurting your feelings. Or maybe a boss who's called you into his office for a passive-aggressive talking-to. Would you vote for that? Not normally, no. But when the opposition is a flock of startled, shrieking hens, your range of options shrinks drastically."
- lukus_W0
- he looks like a genuine conservative tool on the left.airey
- I doubt he did the airbrushing himself though?! Don't understand him getting attacked on that point.gradiate
- If you make a big noise about transparency and honesty, and allow yourself to be airbrushed I think that involves hypocrisy.lukus_W
- I think the ad agency would have done that or the photographer. All photos are touched up. It's not like he's been made thinner.gradiate
- The people elect the all the people involved in a campaign. The leader is just a figure head.lukus_W
- all political communication has to get the signoff from his office no matter who did the 'shoppin.airey
- STFU!gjd
- flashbender0
I think he looks young, vibrant and trustworthy.
Unlike that deceptive one-eyed scotsman
- lukus_W0
The thing is .. it obviously doesn't matter what a politician looks like. What they say, and what they stand for, is important. But at the end of the day - politics is all about shaping expectations to gain power.
I don't trust David Cameron at all. His campaign targets the very lowest hanging-fruit and the conservatives have a track record of fucking the country up in times of economic uncertainty. There's absolutely no indication it would be any different this time.
- Jimbo820
Does the style of the Conservative campaign not remind people of a certain American campaign won recently?
- not even close.skt
- I disagree. Change? hmm? huh?Jimbo82
- the message is not the style.skt
- I figure the same thing.. but they're copying in a far far too obvious and unsophisticated way.lukus_W
- There is no denying they have taken a leaf from Obama's book.Jimbo82
- But ok, remove the words
"the style of" from this post and we have a winnerJimbo82 - they've massively copied obama's docu photography style, slogan, wording, style, etc etc etcisakosmo
- As an American, I agreeukit
- lukus_W0
At Tory HQ a gaggle of senior tory big-wigs is beginning to congregate:
Tory Spokesman: Umm.. right. Well, welcome everyone. Please take your complimentary cup of bovril .. we'll need all the strength we can muster for the long fight ahead of us.
(Crowd settles)
Well, thank you - thank you. As you all know this is the big one - the year we'll oust this incumbent government out of office and we'll have another shot at the big time!
Crowd: Huzzar!!
Tory Spokesman: Well - looking back on the political landscape of the past year, we were all obviously totally enthralled by the US elections. A time of enormous triumph.
Well now it's our turn, and we need to let the people of Britain realise that David is the Obama of Britain .. are you with us?!Crowd: Huzzar!! x2
Tory Spokesman: Now that really is the spirit, tally-ho, by-gosh, wot-wot-wot!?!!.
Um, so .. First on the agenda is, how to let the public know that we're the good guys. We need to be clever here. We will use the word 'change' in our campaign - as much as is humanly possible!!
(Crowd goes wild)
Tory Spokesman: And, as we - the party of change - are all aware, there are other things that Obama has done, which we too will do. Obama likes healthcare - and so do we. We will be the party who make healthcare free to every single citizen living in the UK!!
(Crowd goes wild x10)
Tory Spokesman: At the moment, we think this is possibly all that's required to gain office; but rest assured, David has told us that he will do absolutely anything to get into office.
Specifically, he's decided to combine the spirit of morris-dancing Britain with Obama-mania. Which leads me to proudly announce our latest series of campaign posters; my lords, ladies and gentlemen... introducing David 'a-la-Morris' Cameron.
insert photograph of Cameron blacked up in a morris dancer's costume]]
- lowimpakt0
I was listening to bbc radio 4 the other morning and Cameron was being interviewed. The interviewer was asking him about the airbrushed face etc
Cameron said something along the lines of - "I have no control over photographs" and basically tried to brush off the posters.
obviously he was trying to save "face" (excuse the pun) but basically he was dissing his own campaign.
not exactly aconnected and joined up campaign is it?
yea, people slag brown about his disability but I still "trust" him more than Cameron
- kelpie0
of course he should get dissed for this - its his campaign, the buck stops with him, whether he expressly requested he be freshened up or not. The entire thrust of the NewTory message rests around how wonderful DC is and how different he is to Brown, so when they make a deliberate stab at altering his appearance to emphasise this dishonestly its a direct component of his/their campaigning and as such is entirely open to criticism of this type.
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- "dissed"?Khurram
- I'm using the 'street' vernacular in a clever subtextual reference to the tory attempt to occupy more relevant ground culturallykelpie
- I mean come on, you knew that...kelpie
- safe.Khurram
- How has he been altered though? It's really minor.gradiate
- airbrushing == making things seem better than they arelukus_W
- The same could be said for ribbed condoms. Dont see any threads "Dissing" them.aanderton
- Iggyboo0
This is the new age of political advertising. You find a campaign recreate it and then post fake ads ontop of the original ads wherever they are.. brilliant.. except the whole if you get caught thing. still funny though :)
- kelpie0
The only way this resembles Obama's campaign is that they've taken the word 'Change' as a crass attempt to cash in on the resonance it has now after last year. Its perfectly valid though as the main reason anyone is voting for them is simply to change the government, end of. If you were to actually line up what the 'change' actually means on both cases it would be laughably different.
They really are all cunts these people
- quite unimaginative cunts too, which is what really rankles with me.kelpie
- isakosmo0
yep. right wing caunts. if you think its bad now... just thinking about it makes me a bit depressed. sad how people judge even politicians on style over content.
- calculator0
this should be in politics thread
- this is about design + politics though... (maybe?)lukus_W
- skt0
- wtf, is that for real??
thats gotta be after effected!!
Hombre_Lobo - thats a fucking wonderful website.cray-z
- wtf, is that for real??