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Advertisers Attempt to Persuade the Targeted Audience to Buy the Product

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Promoting a product in a way that appeals to the targeted audience is an aspect that dominates the formation of adverts. To achieve this objective, advertisers use images and words in a creative and convincing manner. This is because the overall effect of advertising is persuading the targeted audience to consume the product. Visual appeal is an aspect common in the two visual texts. For example, using ladies with good looks to appeal to the audience’s emotion is common in them. The two visual texts also communicate using pictures and words. Size is also used in both advertisements to emphasize different parts of the texts. A superficial interpretation of the two visual texts generates one idea. The two products have the ability to meet …show more content…

This could be probably because they do not like the smell of cigarettes on their hands. Emotional appeal in the two texts comes with the message that these products can achieve the audiences’ emotional desires. Definition of the target audience is also common in the two texts. Arguably, both texts target men and women as their audience. It is not reasonable to claim that the target audiences are women only by virtue of women being used in the advertisements. The use of women is calculated. It is meant to achieve appeal using beauty. For instance, the first advert would strike men. They would develop the feeling that their women will be beautiful like the woman in the advertisement if they use the lipstick. Equally, women would also want to be beautiful like the lady so that they impress their men. In the second advertisement, women who smoke would want to have the comfort that the smoking lady has. She is smoking while swinging some gadget. She could be playing a game in a club. Men too would get hooked by the advertisement. They would admire the comfortable and happy woman. There is creative use of text (words) in the two advertisements. Words are used to say that which the pictures cannot say. For example in Camel advertisement, the name of the product being advertised (Camel) is bolded and printed in big fonts. The slogan (pleasure to burn) is also in bold and large fonts. The words “since 1913” are also brightly colored. However, the warning about

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