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I thought the Alexa Loses her Voice was the most persuasive in many different ways.This commercial showed many different sides of emotion and understandings.With Alexa in the center of it controlling how people might feel. Alexa will have many different voices though because of her loosing her voice so it might be different pop stars of actors.These pop stars and actors all have very different personalities too in how they act that changes the person who the are talking to moods.
At first in the video there was the news caster on the TV saying Alexa lost her voice and everyone getting so worried and frightened.It Appealed to Emotion (pathos) in many different ways and just one of them are dealing with relaxation of the person,turning into
being angry she isn't doing what the person asked. Another is a little stressed out not knowing the recipe and Alexa just yelling at him making him feel stupid,making him feel embarrassed about the situation.Another mood is very happy and asking for very peaceful talk but instead someone comes on the Alexa and is very creepy on the way they talk making everything feel very awkward.Making the person feel very weird out in the situation that was going on. The tone of people voices also set the mood because if they were soft of mean on how they acted.Like Chief Gordon Ramsey has a very persuasive voice making his listens do what he says. And when someone listens to him like yelling at that guy making the grilled cheese making him feel stupid and embarrassed.Another voice is Cardi B the famous singer on when the person asks for a country song to just relax to and she starts singing her top hit were it is not country and is actually a rap song.Then the person feels angry and asks her again for a country song but with another just long pause she starts singing the same song again making him feel more angry. So I conclude that this video changed a lot of moods through out it making people feel angry,embarrassed and feel uncomfortable.The moods of people changed because they go persuaded by other people pretending to be Alexa who usually likes everyone and help them out.This is the most persuasive commercial because of all the different actors even of the news cast who persuaded the people to be worried about Alexa loosing her voice to the Cardi B singing rap music in stead of country to make that guy mad at her.
Advertisements are constructed to be compelling; nonetheless, not all of them reach their objective and are efficient. It is not always easy to sway your audience unless your ad has a reliable appeal. Ads often use rhetoric to form an appeal, but the appeals can be either strong or weak. When you say an ad has a strong rhetorical appeal, it consists of ethos, pathos, logos, and Kairos. Advertisers use these appeals to cohere with their audience. Nike is known to be one of the leading brands of the sports shoes and apparel. It holds a very wide sector of followers around the world. In the Nike ad, Nike uses a little boy watching other basketball players play, and as the kid keeps growing, his love for basketball keeps growing. Eventually, he
Advertisements often employ many different methods of persuading a potential consumer. The vast majority of persuasive methods can be classified into three modes. These modes are ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos makes an appeal of character or personality. Pathos makes an appeal to the emotions. And logos appeals to reason or logic. This fascinating system of classification, first invented by Aristotle, remains valid even today. Let's explore how this system can be applied to a modern magazine advertisement.
According to Robert Scholes, author of On Reading a Video Text, commercials aired on television hold a dynamic power over human beings on a subconscious level. He believes that through the use of specific tools, commercials can hold the minds of an audience captive, and can control their abilities to think rationally. Visual fascination, one of the tools Scholes believes captures the minds of viewers, can take a simple video, and through the use of editing and special effects, turn it into a powerful scene which one simply cannot take his or her eyes from. Narrativity is yet another way Scholes feels commercials can take control of the thoughts of a person sitting in front of the television. Through the use of specific words, sounds, accompanying statements and or music, a television commercial can hold a viewer’s mind within its grasp, just long enough to confuse someone into buying a product for the wrong reason. The most significant power over the population held by television commercials is that of cultural reinforcement, as Scholes calls it. By offering a human relation throughout itself, a commercial can link with the masses as though it’s speaking to the individual viewer on an equal level. A commercial In his essay, Scholes analyzes a Budweiser commercial in an effort to prove his statements about the aforementioned tools.
In this generation businesses use commercial to persuade different types of audiences to buy their product or to persuade them to help a certain caused. If you analyze commercial you can see how certain things play a major role in the success of a commercial. The ad I decide to analyze as an example is the commercial snickers used during the Super Bowl in 2010;”Betty White”-Snickers. This commercials starts off with guys playing a game of football with an elderly women know as Betty White. As Betty White tries to play football she is tackled to the ground. Her teammates refer to her as Mike when they come up to her to ask why she has been “playing like Betty White all day”. This helps inform the audience that Betty White is not actually playing but instead represent another teammate. As the guys keep arguing Mikes girlfriend calls her over and tells her to eat a snicker. Betty White takes the first bite and then suddenly a man appears in her place ready to finish the game. At the end of the commercial the statement "You're not you when you're hungry" is shown followed by the Snickers bar logo. What this commercial is trying to show is that hunger changes a person, and satisfying this hunger can change you back to your normal self. They use different types
Comparing and Contrasting Advertisements Advertisers often use three types of persuasion to sell their products or get their points across. Also known as the three parts of rhetoric, pathos, logos, and ethos are used to persuade or inform the audience. Pathos is the appeal to emotion, ethos is the appeal to ethics or the ethical thing, and logos is the appeal to logic and reason. These three types of persuasion can be very effective depending on the topic of debate and the audience. Two commercials that use these persuasion devices are Geico Insurance and Chevrolet Company.
Often Advertising uses persuasion to inform the audience; in fact it is the most import aspect to advertising. Advertising would simply be a conversation between the communicator and their recipients if persuasion weren’t present. Although the basic purposes are to inform and persuade, it is left to the audience when it comes to differentiating between factual information and unethical persuasive tactics. The persuader, wishes for the consumer to act or believe in a certain way. Whether sought after actions are positive or negative, ends up being the question. In the modern world it has become more difficult to differentiate between truths and untruths; mainly due to the technological advances in advertising medium. Differentiating between facts and propaganda becomes increasingly more challenging when it comes to politics. Whether it is an election for student senate or the United States general election for Presidency; there are a lot of factors weighing in on the decision process. During an election year, persuasive tactics become essential in the success of a campaign. Although many voters have made up their minds when they are first bombarded by the political campaigning, these pre-developed opinions are not viewed as an impenetrable force by the campaigner. The campaigner typically recognizes these patterns in opinion and instead aims to persuade them from a different angle, most commonly the emotions surrounding the issues rather than the issues themselves. This paradigm changed in political persuasion was first seen September 7, 1964 when a rattling ad for Lynden Johnson played over NBC. The ad now known as “Daisy Girl” forever changed political persuasion in advertising. With this change came the issue of ethi...
In order to attract a specific demographic, advertisement companies employ diverse methods of persuasion. Companies, such as Wendy’s, hire advertisement companies to entice target audiences to their products. Wendy’s ad campaign for ‘Where’s the Beef?’ integrates a few different methods of persuasion; credibility, similarity with the target, and likeability. By utilizing younger actors that used smartphones, making fun of older people that were handling retro dial phones, and targeting Americans by speaking about how their beef was made in America Wendy’s is going after the 14-40 aged demographics of Americans. Incorporating these methods of persuasion, in combination of targeting a demographic of Americans aged 14-40, Wendy’s is anticipating to attract new customers from this demographic to increase profitability.
One of the commercials that I chose personally, is Proactiv. I chose this particular commercial because I can relate to what the commercial is trying to point out. I struggled when I was younger with acne, just like everybody else. This commercial is passed on television during the week. I would hear different stories from people who struggle with their own acne and it made me want to make a change for myself. Most of all, I noticed that people were getting rid of acne as they used the product.
Which TV commercial is deeply impressed? Is it the one show up many times on TV? Is it the one have a clearly slogan? Is it the one have an unforgettable scene? I have selected 2 commercials of different drinks, which are “Red Bull Gives You Wings”, and “Coca-Cola Summer Commercial 2011, Open Happiness”. Coca-Cola is a soda drink. It is dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century to present. Red Bull is mainly an energy drink. It is also an international marketing campaign targets young men mostly with extreme sports. For me, a successful commercial will lead people want to buy its product. The commercials of Coca-Cola and Red Bull are selling their products in different way for different people. In general, the soda drinks are always more popular than the energy drinks, but the ad of Red Bull seems better than the ad of Coca-Cola in some way.
The Star Wars commercial is Ethos because Darth Vader uses his position as lord to convince people in going to the dark side .One example is when he used his powers to make the golf ball go in hole when he missed. The other example is when the guy tried to hit him because he was mad, Darth Vader used his powers to choke him and show he was powerful, therefore the other men in the commercial became Darth Vader’s friend. The SPCA Rescue The Animals commercial uses Pathos
The Amazon Echo is a fascinating and useful device, but it is not perfect. Even though it is great, there are still certain issues involved with it.
One of the more effective is the pathos appeal. When using pathos the media is hitting the broadest population of listeners and readers. Everyone uses there emotions so it persuades everyone in one way or another. Along with pathos effecting all varieties of the public, it also has a wide variety of techniques to use. The variety of techniques come from the long list of human emotions the media can aim for. Most times the media targets for more than one emotion at a time to persuade. An example of this appeal is a media ad asking for money to give to less fortunate people. This one ad is effecting many emotions all at once. This ad could poss...
What captures the average person’s eye when they view advertisement? For some, maybe its bright, and popping colors or creative slogans, or even a celebrity in the ad. Although these are the most common ways to draw attention, there are three different persuasive methods that these are categorized into. The methods are pathos, ethos, and
You’re sitting down on your coach and you see an attractive girl winking at you, men are aroused, woman want to be her, and it is followed by a famous phrase, “got milk”, now you suddenly want milk! This is just one technique that advertisers use to manipulate customers into purchasing their product. Charles A. O’Neil wrote an essay that discusses advertisement and its ability to persuade a targeted audience. Frank Luntz also evaluates advertisers and their methods of persuasion. O’Neil however captures readers with his effective way of applying pathos, while Luntz gives readers credibility and applies logos.
In addition, I value advertisements that are not geared toward just sales. Personally, when an advertisement is all about making the sale it turns me away from the product. I do like CoverGirl’s ad a little more than I did, however if I had to choose between Maybelline and CoverGirl I would still go with Maybelline. Knowing CoverGirl made an emotional connection with the delicious lipstick and relating it to the delicious ice cream was clever and I appreciate it. Nevertheless, my feeling on the overwhelming effect of being crowded still stands