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Diagnostic Essay: Car Commercials
In the Advertisement industry there are many different strategies used to influence an audience. Among the strategies are the use of the advertisers methodical approaches by using different types of logic appeals. There are three different types a logic commonly used to promote and sell an item. Logos is the appeal to reason and it focuses on the practicality of the object. Ethos is the appeal to authority, is the use of an authoritative figure as a promotion. Pathos is the appeal to emotion, which acts upon relating to and drawing out the emotions of the audience (Kirszer and Mandell 13). An analysis the strategies of the advertises as expressed in the commercials of the SmartCar, the Toyota Venza and
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the Hyundai Genesis. The determination of the use of the logics is accomplished by the analysis of the characteristics of age, gender, interest, values and preconceptions of the audience are targeted in the three commercials. The Smart Car is a energy efficient two seat vehicle.
The beginning of the commercial shows the car struggle in attempting to traverse a rough motocross type terrain. This strategy is used to relate to the audience by reassuring a stereotype in a humorous manner, because the car is clearly not an off-road vehicle. In comically proving the audience correct in their preconception, the advertisers have gain the credibility of the audience. The commercial then uses an appeal to reason to down play the SUV competitors by stating the Smart car more practical for common use, such as vehicle finding a parking place and emphasizes the petite size of the Smart Car as an advantage. As illustrated, finding a parking place in the city it uses the small size which was hindering in the previous off-road setting as an advantage in realistic day to day setting of the city which adds to the appeal for city divers, appealing to reasoning. Through out the commercial the advertisers set a feeling using radical rap music to provide an edgy perspective as an appeal to the younger drivers. Then emphasize the trust of the audience by being direct in stating the purposed use of the car. In the commercial it states “The smart for two, the ultimate city car.” The audience targeted is determined to be primarily young couples with careers who live in the city. The advertisers of the Smart Car commercial used logos and pathos to give the Smart Car the appearance of being a cool, practical little
car. In the Toyota Venza commercial the narrator is a young woman at home on a computer she is mocking the parent by saying they are anti-social, because are they have a measly amour of friends on Facebook. There is also an undertone of an insult to young people such as a young person reading only half an article. The ad is targeted towards parents or middle age people because it uses the persuasion of being cool and active. Using the concept of the targeted audience thoughts about living, the advertisers then in cooperate the car as an aspect of living. It uses the car as a mode of being social and active with friends. The commercial also implies the car will make the parents cooler by living more social lives.The commercial uses pathos and logos be relating to the emotion of the targeted generation towards the preconceptions of reasoning of the other generation. The advertisers use the car as an instrument to prove the other generation wrong on the preconceptions of living. The Hyundai Genesis Commercial opens with clips of home movie scenes of a dad saving his boy for danger at a moments notice. Later the dad is in the car while his son is driving, the son is distracted by a pretty young women and almost wrecks into a car pulling out of a driveway, but the automatic braking system stops the car. The emphasis on the new automatic braking system is an appeal to parents by relating the car to being like dad to save at a moments notice. The commercial also attempts to appeal to the young driver as a cool car by assimilating the Hyundai, appearance wise, with the custom modified car the boy almost ran into. The advertisement uses pathos by appealing to the emotions of the protection of a dad being applied to the car. It could be consuetude the logic of logos and ethos because the undertone feeling of who wouldn’t trust dad. Another technic used the lyrics of the music to add a subconscious feeling of trust because of the influential lyrics “You can count on me like one, two, three.” The emotions display could also be applied to the company itself as being a trustworthy company that would protect, which could be a comfort to parents looking for a vehicle for a young driver. After the analysis of the many different aspects and strategies the advertisers use when making a commercial, the advertisers use of Pathos, Logos and Ethos can be summer up as follows. The Smart car appeals to young people in the city. The Toyota Venza appeals to the middle and older age people who are looking for social adventure. The Hyundai Genesis appeals to the parents of young or new drivers. The advertisers use multiple forms of logic in attempt to persuade the audience to purchase their products.
This is an example of pathos, the commercial is trying to leave an impact in the audience by using emotions. The commercial then shows a dancer dancing in sync to the music using interesting dance moves that are quite marvelous. By watching him dance there will be different responses depending on the person, some will feel awed and curious while others may feel envy by the talent the dancer demonstrates. The music increases its intensity and the beat makes the audience feel excited. The commercial then states phrases that come off as being quite mysterious, “Machines don’t have emotions, but the rare few can inspire them” (Lexus 00:00:26). The phrase gains curiosity and enthralls people to continue watching. By using this strategy the commercial is effective in having different emotional reactions and catching a wide variety of people’s
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
These feelings are conveyed by the reader because the spokesperson is someone like them, who works for the things they have, and is living an honest life. The spokesperson speaks to the audience as if she is a coworker, because she wants the reader to understand that she is like them. The relationship that is shared with the audience is achieved by the friendly tone and atmosphere in the commercial. By making the viewer feel like they can connect with the spokesperson, the commercial was able to spark the interest of the readers. The relationship created with the audience was helpful because now that the reader has a connection to the spokesperson, there is now trust there that will make the audience look fondly on the Ford car. The commercial bonding with the audience has built trust and a feeling of common ground, which will lead to more people considering buying the
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.
Nowadays, commercial is becoming a major part of mass media. It does not only try to inform people about the availability and attractiveness of industrial good productions but also contribute to build an awareness of resources and alternatives for customer in daily life. There are thousands of commercials, so to attract customer, advertisers use various kinds on their commercial to make people aware of the firm's products, services or brands. Though they use various kinds on the commercial, the main goal of advertising tries to convince customer to buy their products, or do what they want. An excellent commercial will create a deep impression on their customers, or who want to become their customers by using three classical appeals: pathos, ethos and logos.
Most advertisements as the ones I mentioned above use at least two or more appeals to persuade their intended audience to buy the product donate money, go see a movie, go to a restaurant, or switch brands. The use of logos seems to be the most effective way to promote something, by giving the facts and logical reasoning people are more likely to want what is being offered. Commercials have a short amount of time to engage the audience in their product. The use of rhetorical appeal helps to keep the audience’s attention to the details of the commercial and to make them think about what is being shown or heard. The presentation of the commercial needs to leave a memory with the audience to make them want to learn more about the product or try it
Everyone loves old people. The elderly as a whole are viewed as a wise, tough, and compassionate group. Dodge takes advantage of this fact in their most recent commercial featuring elderly people who are all around 100 years old, to associate their brand as a well established, trustworthy, and reliable company. The ad is effective in leveraging the wisdom and knowledge of the elderly while associating Dodge as a brand that utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos in their commercials. Dodge takes advantage of societies general admiration and trust in general for the elderly and use these feelings to try and persuade people to purchase their vehicle, in particular the Dodge Challenger.
The images which are 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’ attentions. 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.
Advertisements cannot triumph unless they capture our attention. Advertisers use different strategies like slogans, pictures,claims so those advertising messages do not forgot by the audience and persuade people to buy the product being sold. The language used in these various forms of media has a huge impact on their effects on the consumer. William Lutz, the author of “With these words,I can sell you anything” and Charles A. O 'Neill, author of, “The language of advertising” have contrasting views about the system of advertising. Lutz and O’Neill have different approaches of persuading audience about their views on language manipulation in advertisements.
Lebron James then gets off the car wearing a lavishing tuxedo with sunglasses and hands the valet parking guy the keys to park the car. Lastly, the commercial shows plenty of people cheering for Lebron as he walks through the red carpet. The commercial is effective because it shows audience the luxurious exterior and interior of the car. It was also memorable because it shows one of the most famous basketball player drive the car, which makes the audience remember it and want the car even more. This commercial is ethos because most people believe almost anything famous people say. For example, they think that Lebron James actually likes the Kia car because he was driving it, however, he got paid to be in that
It features Kevin Hart a funny comedian to attract people to watch the commercial. It persuades protective dads to check out this Hyundai that they are trying to sell you. It shows you how Hart uses car finder to find where his daughter is going every time during her date. By showing this it really makes dads want to drive to the car dealer today. When it comes down to their daughter going on their first date they want to know the person, where they’re going, and if they’ll be safe. By introducing car finder in the commercial it showed how Hart popped at the movies, fair grounds, and even during the private time. The commercial even shows how Hart made the boy want to take his daughter home early. So if you’re a protective dad I suggest you check this commercial out. This commercial will be beneficial to you for future purposes. It will persuade you to go out and buy that new
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.
An advertisement is a form of public writing in which the author uses writing strategies as a way to catch the attention of a reader and to persuade that reader to purchase what he or she is promoting. In order to create an effective advertisement, the author relies on the product’s credibility, uses reasons to convince the reader to buy what he/she is promoting, and attempts to appeal to the reader based on emotion. A way in which this can be achieved is through using three components of writing known as ethos, pathos and logos. As an example to illustrate how these strategies can be used as an effective method of persuasion, I have chosen to analyze an advertisement produced by a travel agency. In the ad, the author’s attempt is to use logos and pathos as his primary means of persuasion but touches on all three components of writing as a method of luring the reader into choosing Texas as the primary choice for a vacation destination. The author’s intent is to rely on this location to represent the travel agency as a source for planning the vacation.
This technique is commonly broken into three categories: pathos, ethos, and logos. The multi-billion-dollar company, Nike, is one of many companies that utilizes these techniques to not only sell their products, but present their values and morals as an athletic company. Nike’s, “If you let me play,” ad is a perfect example of a print advertisement that encompasses all three persuasion techniques. The ad has emotional appeal, using pathos to evoke feelings of strength and positivity in young girls and their parents urging them to embrace sports and physical activities. Ethos is a fairly simple persuasive technique for Nike to utilize due to their overwhelming success and popularity. With such a large company, it is easy to establish unspoken credibility. In order to establish further credibility, there are statistics and claims based on logical reasoning that exemplify an advertisement using logos to help the target audience understand exactly what Nike is striving to communicate. Through capitalizing on these persuasive techniques, Nike not only successfully promoted their female athletic apparel, but also educated the public on the importance of empowering young girls and encouraging them to participate in sports and physical activities for the overall betterment of their lives mentally, physically, and
Typically, when a commercial is made, it is made for a specific audience. However, with Maserati’s 2014 Ghibi commercial, the audience could be multiple people, anyone really. The high price of the car would appeal to an audience that can afford a price like that, but the other factors of the commercial appealed to all kinds of audiences. The hard working people in the commercial helped widen the audience and relate to more people, just as the young girl did talking in the dramatic