Maybelline Boss Life

Maybelline boss line


A much more fluid social context  changing more pluarisic representations in 2017 reflecting diversity
The advert refleects changing  representation of gender

Not presctived Two step flow theroy can apply in the same way as vlogger Zoella influences her fnas and followers to buy into brands ( they have combined 5.1 m insagram followers and 2.5 milliomn youtube subscribers

Gutierrez is openly gay and Mexican/Spanshish american in binary opposition (strauss) to fierce hetrosextual western stereotypes in the Score advert


Opening two shot represents both the brands as stars om a go;,oc connotation - Maybelline Present.. That Boss Life with Manny and Shayla

Secondary personan of both stars position the audience early on tinto a dominant preferred reading

Manny nodding head boy movemment legitimises brand nd is cut  against an extreme close up of brand logo

High key lighting and a bright colour palette (yellows and whites) encode an upbeat mode of address.

Close up of brand - satuated image

Establishing shot of New York anchoring dialouge "Let's get bossed up"

Speeded up film and close up of gold suitcase has luxury connotations

Camera zooms in to reveal iconic product - gold represents the brand colour but also status

Slow motion used to dramatise flying mascara while both stars embrace and kiss the product anchoring using Hall a preferred meaning that their brand is to be desired

A  close up of glinying golf reinforeces the aspirational status of the brand while extreme close up reveals application - ideology of consumerism

Jump cuts on the extreme eye close up position the audience using Judith Butler to recognise gender fluid representation

Canted/dutch angle camera sees both Manny and Shayla entering a room, fully dressed and made up reinforcing Butler reading of a lack of constructed gender roles

MCU sees both happy and smling with the non diegetic sound of glitter with glinting gold.

Fast  zoom in to swarthy


Using Gauntlet the advert the

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