Most commercials hire models or celebrities to better sell a product; however, using real everyday people speaks to the audience that not only are our employees relatable but they also seem like a friend, sister, neighbor, or anyone you trust in to making your visit a positive one. This relates to emotion by the matches of words and pictures. The word real when placed beside food and people brings a sense of authentic when consuming the dishes or interacting with the team. This emotion presented in this example is honestly when trusting the food industry.
Figure 5: Ending image in Noodles and Company commercial. This image is the last thing the viewers will see and it allows them to feel welcomed and invited to come to any Noodles and Company location.
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The picture above uses a bunch of animation as an example of pathos, which brings a fun interactive vibe to the commercial. It also says “See you soon” Including this on the last page is seen as a personal invitation after a long introduction to the restaurant. The use of pathos from start to finish by combining visual attraction, word play and, the sound of music allows the viewer to go from being attentive to the commercial and music, to seeing real dishes, to a list that speaks to their personal preferences to being physically invited to dine at any Noodles and Company. Connecting to the audience emotion, as a trigger point to get them to actually visit and eat at their nearest
The one thing that any author must do when writing any sort of essay is to make it comprehensible to the reader. In order to achieve this, the author must utilize anything to get their point across or else the writing would be futile. In Turkeys in the Kitchen , Dave Barry gives his own personal stories about his Thanksgiving and how he feels that men aren’t as useful as women in the terms of the culinary arts (kitchen), Barry’s flippant tone and his use of rhetorical devices such as similes and irony bring forth a light hearted explanation of stereotypes between men and women as well as describing how men are useless in the kitchen. The uses of similes throughout the essay give purpose by showing how men are useless.
Within this commercial, logos was not very prevalent. I chose a commercial about dog food and they didn’t mention the dog food until the end. Through the entire advertisement, if focused on the dog and his owner. In the end, you finally got to see the paw print logo appears as well as the company name, IAMS. The director makes an interesting decision by having the commercial not be focused on the logos.
A company’s success is deeply dependent on its ability to appeal to as many people as possible. Chrysler Jeep does this by placing a variety of different people and situations into one commercial therefore making it possible for Jeep to reach all sorts of audiences. Jeep manages to take scenarios that are polar opposites and relate them back to each other using their one common tie: Jeep. Jeep Portraits successfully convinces loyal Americans to purchase a Jeep.
Food, Inc. leaks a certain mystery behind, which contains the true secrets about the journey food takes. Food, Inc., a documentary that demonstrates the current and growth method of food production since the 1950’s, is designed to inform Americans about a side of the food industry. Food Inc. also used persuasion to demonstrates some components of pathos, logos, and ethos while uncovering the mysterious side of the food industry in America. Robert Kenner, the director of Food, Inc., made this film for a purpose. Uncovering the hidden facts and secrets behind the food industry in America.
No Nickels or Dimes To Spare In the book, Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich writes the story, “Serving in Florida.” She describes her experience living as an undercover waitress when in reality she’s a journalist for culture and politics with a doctorate in biology. Ehrenreich experiences trying to survive on multiple low income jobs to understand what it is like to be in their shoes instead of being apart of the higher middle class.
Pathos was used most effectively by showing a Budweiser employees family life and dedication to assist others through Budweiser’s water donation program. The music choice and layout of the commercial also subtly contributed to pathos. Ethos was also established by the credibility of the ones in the commercial and the humbling message of the commercial as a whole. Logos did not show in their commercial. In conclusion, the advertisement was effective using these two rhetorical appeals, and Budweiser’s image
Extra -Gum Advertisement The purpose of this commercial is to encourage the viewer to realize the importance of a stick of Extra gum in their life. The commercial begins with a tender moment between a new father and his young daughter as he chews a piece of Extra gum and makes an origami bird out of the wrapper. The father’s act of giving an origami gum wrapper to his daughter is repeated through different stages of the daughter’s life: at her birthday, at the beach, at the ball game, at the house with a date, and an emotional moment ending with the father’s discovery that she has always kept the origami birds in a special box. The audience of this commercial is everybody who are chewing gum and there is no age limit.
The current meaning of pathos is having to do with emotions like happiness, sadness, and amazement. Advertisements often use pathos as a rhetorical strategy to get their audience to laugh and make their product seem more likable. Both the first and second commercials use an emotion that appeal to the majority of the population, humor. The Hyundai commercial highlights the humorous relationship between a father and his daughter’s date. Kevin Hart, the father, goes to extreme measures to “scare off” his daughter 's date using the car finder feature on the Hyundai Genesis.
In the Budweiser commercial “Puppy Love” it utilizes the persuasion tool pathos for specifically this reason. The commercial follows a puppy that constantly sneaks away to visit his friend a Clydesdale horse (Budweiser Brasil). However, the puppy is always found by a man who returns him to his caretaker (Budweiser Brasil). The story of a cute puppy is already enough to get the average viewer to show an emotional response. Add that to a friendship with a beautiful Clydesdale horse and that is sure to get the viewers’ hearts warmed.
Rhetorical analysis Do you believe in order to understand other culture you need to try different food ? These are some ideas of this article from Amy S. Choi a freelance journalist. She wrote this article,“What americans can learn from other food cultures”. Choi betters her argument by providing real stories from other countries.
Watching the commercial, the intended audience for an adult man with a son. I say that because the main character’s are an old man and his son. This commercial instills values like the past meaning reliving what you loved and also family. It’s not effective because it doesn’t use the Rhetorical Appeals like Ethos and Logos but, it does include Pathos which makes it somewhat good. Pathos is a Rhetorical Appeal that the commercial does portray in many forms.
Pathos means to show emotions and feelings (Britannica Academic). The way Nike shows pathos in all of their advertisements and their “Just Do It” commercial is by the usage of a personal story, pictures, and the type of music that is played throughout the advertisement commercial. The clothing and shoe company uses inspiration, motivation, eagerness, excitement, and many other ideas to create an illusion to draw attention. When the intent of some of these are provided on a television, viewers want to keep watching and become interested. Throughout the video, slow music is not being played.
The 2013 Budweiser Clydesdale commercial was the first time that people saw this new character as “the man”. When watching this ad, it is clear to see that the major focus was to grab the viewer’s attention by appealing to their sentimental emotions. The use of this advertisement during the super bowl gave Budweiser the recognition they would have otherwise never obtained. By using many rhetorical effects in their ad, the company was successful in grasping the audience’s attention and giving themselves a credible
“They’re Grrrreat!” A claim that Kellogg’s one and only Tony the Tiger always makes in every Frosted Flakes commercial. But is this claim true? Is Frosted Flakes cereal really that great that Tony has to repeat it to the audience in every commercial. No one seems to care because if a talking tiger says its true then the audience must believe it too.
As a result, the ad effectively displayed pathos to demand the audience’s attention. Not only can