Task 3: The Hypodermic Syringe effect ..

As I was reading the article, my personal opinion is that I can see what they are saying when they say that violent programmes and video games can lead to a person commiting a violent crime but also it is up to the person whether they commit the crime and just because they have seen or played something which is very violent doesn't really give anyone the excuse to go ahead and murder someone. Although, when the article was talking about a serial killer called Jeffrey Dahmer, it does work for this because before hand, Dahmer would watch a film before he commited his murders. This shows that the hypodermic syringe effect does work but the movie which Dahmer watched was Star Wars. Star Wars isn't meant to portray extremely violent scenes and therefore the hypodermis syringe effect doesn't work for this reason.
However, if you are about to see a programme which shows women cleaning up around the house and cooking, we automatically think that women should be in the kitchen and therefore that has influenced a lot of people to think so. Therefore, it proves that the theory is correct. Also, when we saw the campaign posters that David Cameron was putting up around Britain at the time of the election, we saw the facts that the conservative party put up to make people think differently about the labour party. I believe that this influenced a lot of people into for the conservative party and not the labour party because the adverts were negative and it made Gordon Brown seem like he couldn't run the country better than the conservative party. Therefore, I think that the hypodermic syringe effect works to an extent because it did, at the time, influence me to think more about how conservatives could run the country.

How the media can influence an audience;

This poster shows that the hypodermic syringe effect is working to provide caution and to reduce the amount of people who do smoke. I think that this is working because it has shown the consequences of what smoking can do to you. This illustrates that the hypodermic syringe effect is used for good and therefore not for horrible reasons like violent video games and programmes on the TV. It uses a powerful message to let people be aware of the side effects of smoking.

This poster shows that the hypodermic syringe effect is in use to warn people about what Gordon Brown has done to the country. This was used very effectively because it made people aware of the bad things that the labour party have done. This has been used to disuade the audience into voting for labour party because it makes the labour party seem quite hopeless in what they tried to achieve. The 'Vote for change. Vote for Conservative' shows that conservative may be a better party and therefore the hypodermic syringe effect has been used to the conservatives advantage.