Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Goodbye and Enjoy!!!

Well I hope you enjoy reading this blog as much as I've enjoyed making it, though it has been a very long process. I also hope you can see where I'm coming from and that it all makes perfect sense.
In my blog I think I've shown just how different these two events are and the way they promote themselves to the rest of us is also very different, though there are a few similarities.
These events are different in ways of promotion as I explained they have different tactics when it comes to advertising, for example, I can't imagine, in fact i'm sure that The ARC Show would not be using tactics such as having people fight in front of media to get the media attention now would they?
I feel I've learnt a lot from this myself as I've looked deeper into the whole advertising methods, I just hope my little head can keep it all in. 
Saying this I still feel there's more to put on here as it never feels complete to just walk away, so I'm sure I will add more when I get some time!!

Goodbye and most of all ENJOY!!!




Monday, 5 March 2012

Communication Objectives

Chris Fill best explains communication by saying communication itself is the process by which individuals share meaning. Therefore, for a dialogue to occur each participant needs to understand the meaning of the other's communication. For this overall process to work, information needs to be transmitted (Dibb et al., 1991) by all participants. It is important, therefore, that those involved with marketing communications understand the complexity of the transmission process. Through knowledge and understanding of the communications process, they are more likely to achieve their objective of sharing meaning with each member of their target audiences and so have an opportunity to enter into a dialogue.

(Source: A linear model of communication Fill C, Marketing Communications, Contexts, Contents and strategies, 1999, pg24)

Schramm's model above shows the communication process where each part of the model has a different section, source, encoding, decoding and the receiver (target audience).
The source relates to the company/ brand that is offering the event/ sending the message. Encoding is transferring the intended message into a symbolic style that can be transmitted. Signal is the transmission of the message using particular media. Decoding is understanding the symbolic style of the message in order to understand the message. Receiver is the individual or organisation receiving the message. Feedback is the receiver's communication back to the source on receipt of the message. Noise is distortion of the communication process, making it difficult for the receiver to interpret the message as intended by the source.


The model and its components are straightforward, but it is the quality of the linkage between the various elements in the process that determine whether the communication will be successful, (Fill, C, 1999)