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Blog task: Score advert and wider reading

Media Factsheet - Score hair cream Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet #188: Close Study Product - Advertising -  Score . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. If you need to access this from home  you can download it here  if you use your Greenford login details to access Google Drive. Read the factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) How did advertising techniques change in the 1960s and how does the Score advert reflect this change? 1960s ushered in an age of new and pioneering advertising  techniques. According to AdAge (adage.com), advertising agencies  in the 1960s relied less on market research and leaned more toward  creative instinct in planning their campaigns. “Eschewing portrayals  of elitism, authoritarianism, reverence for institutions and other  traditional beliefs, ads attempted to win over consumers with  humour, candour and, above all, irony.” Copy was still u