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Throughout the centuries, ads have been a form of communication to the masses. When businesses have a product that they want to promote, they put out ads. They use things such as pathos, ethos, and color schemes to convey their message. An ad that comes to mind is McDonald’s First Day. In this ad, a young man starts a job and is overwhelmed with the start process. He finally feels relieved when he takes a break from work. The ad uses color schemes to convey pathos and ethos.
The color scheme in this ad, plays an enormous factor in conveying the use of pathos and ethos in the ad. In the beginning of the ad, there is a uses of dull colors. Colors such as black, brown, gray, white, and light blue communicate a message of tediousness. Towards the end, bright colors such as red, yellow, and green comes into play. These bright
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If someone walked into a room that is painted brown, black, white, gray, and light blue, most likely they would be bored depending on the activity they are doing. If someone walked into a room that is painted red, yellow, green, and orange, they would be excited to be in that room.
In the ad, there is a dull colored room. It was set up in a traditional office work space environment. The main character, a young man who was new to the office, had on a grey suit with a brown tie and a white collared dress shirt. The color scheme was boring until he entered McDonald’s. After he entered McDonald’s, the color scheme became exciting. The effect that we see in the ad also relates to the music we listen to. This ideology is call tension and release. The ad creates tension using boring colors than releases that tension by bringing in exciting
They make the cheeseburgers look like they had just made them with the freshest ingredients and best meat McDonalds could find. Although anyone who has eaten at McDonalds knows that the ingredients they use are the farthest thing from being fresh, so in making the burgers look nice and fresh it makes the burgers look better then what they really are driving in a crowd of people hoping to eat a burger from the ad only to be disappointed to find the real burger is all around not that impressive. The color choice of the back round of the ad being red, normally wouldn’t raise any eyebrows. What people don’t realize is that red stimulates aggression and speeds up your metabolize making you hungrier and hungrier until those three big juicy cheese burgers look like the best thing in the world. The shaded diamond shapes in the background actually symbolize the concept of choosing so it would make sense to put it on the ad to want them to chose one of there cheese burgers. The positioning of the cheeseburgers is in a pyramid/triangular design that displays structure and power. The display is quietly giving someone a slight feel of power wanting him or her to buy the cheeseburger that made him or her feel good. The only times any of the words on the ad are capitalized are when the ad is naming the cheeseburgers. The company is trying to make the burgers the most important thing on the ad by
McDonald's is one of the multiple fast food restaurants that serve greasy and oversized meals that are harmful to the human body. Throughout a thirty day McDonald's only diet, Spurlock surrounds himself with logos, ethos, and pathos to impact the viewer's opinion on the true cost of eating fast food
Advertisements are one of many things that Americans cannot get away from. Every American sees an average of 3,000 advertisements a day; whether it’s on the television, radio, while surfing the internet, or while driving around town. Advertisements try to get consumers to buy their products by getting their attention. Most advertisements don’t have anything to do with the product itself. Every company has a different way of getting the public’s attention, but every advertisement has the same goal - to sell the product. Every advertisement tries to appeal to the audience by using ethos, pathos, and logos, while also focusing on who their audience is and the purpose of the ad. An example of this is a Charmin commercial where there is a bear who gets excited when he gets to use the toilet paper because it is so soft.
The blues and whites catches a consumer’s eye and brings out the other elements of the advertisement. This is in stark contrast with the Sheba advertisement. Their advertisement’s color did not go well together and did not seem to fit. Also, the Fancy Feast advertisement had good texture, which helped catch the eye of consumers. The Sheba advertisement did not have much texture and was very bland.
Use of Pathos in an Ad Commercial Images used for advertisements, newspapers, or magazines usually include the significant purposes and ideas. Then, in many cases, they are described by ethos, pathos, and logos, which are used frequently to catch viewers’ attention. Even if the ads do not have concrete strategies and clear opinions, those ads may not be able to persuade the viewers. In other words, the excellent ads could use one of three persuasions. The following advertisement is the good example of embedded pathos in the advertisement.
What captures the attention of people when they view an advertisement, commercial or poster? Is it the colors, a captivating phrase or the people pictured? While these are some of the elements often employed in advertising, we can look deeper and analyze the types of appeals that are utilized to draw attention to certain advertisements. The persuasive methods used can be classified into three modes. These modes are pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos makes an appeal to emotions, logos appeals to logic or reason and ethos makes an appeal of character or credibility. Each appeal can give support to the message that is being promoted.
The video describes how our society may not even care about the product being advertised, but we still read the billboard or watch the commercial. Also mentioned was the use of colors in a commercial, the marketing effects in politics, and even market research obtained by studying different cults. Frontline takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar “persuasion industries” of advertising and how this rhetoric affects everyone. So whether this is in the form of a television commercial or a billboard, pathos, logos, and ethos can be found in all advertisements.
The advertisement's rich red coloring immediately strikes a viewer with exciting and salacious overtones. The red lettering, border, cigarette package, and swimsuit all emphasize social and physical pleasure. The other colors' absence only strengthens the red coloring's implications.
In this essay I will describe an image taken from an advert and use visual methodological approach to analyse and depict the different set of meanings produced by this image. In order to explicate my ideas I will provide a brief outline of the picture. Then, I will describe a number of coded and non coded meanings and how the advert is employing a range of signifiers to communicate messages to the consumer and reinforce the brand identity. (Barthes 1972)
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Colors used in the font not only stand out but contributes to the tone of the ad. The font color orange has the emotions of attraction and happiness. The logo being the only color in this ad shows that the ad is tapping into the senses. The use of colors in the ad can persuade an audience to feel happy and hungry, making the audience want to try the donut or go to dunkins donuts. They also want you to see the logo that is a bubblegum pink and a creamsicle colored orange the bubblegums color is directed towards the color of lipstick on the model.
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McDonald’s USA has been feeding the American society since 1940. Recently, the company has had various issues with people posting on social media as well as questioning the restaurant’s food. Millennials created controversy about what McDonald’s was serving its customers and this showed itself in ongoing negativity between social media, blogs, and news sites. This caused an extreme decrease in the restaurants sales. The tactic proposed was to become more transparent with the public, but the focused audience was “curious skeptic” millennials.
The beginning of this ad starts with a song with a mid-range tempo. It is happy and calming in nature, reflecting on the father figures within the ad. The ad is a few minutes long and as you proceed to watch the ad the music in the background escalates in volume and tempo. The music escalates until the climax of the ad where the spokesperson announces the product and the end quote. The use of uplifting music in advertising can help the target audience generate a more positive outlook of a company.