An Ad From Nike Called Unlimited You

Most people live their lives by trying to fit in or be like the person next to them each day, trying to out do one another. When commercials air, presenting gorgeous people with amazing bodies, it makes people want to out do them. The natural act is to be better. Nike Snow Day is effective because it features famous athletes like Rob Gronkowski, Odell Beckham and Elena Donne wearing Nike’s winter apparel, playing a game of football in the snow. The commercial features both female and male athletes so Nike appeals to both sexes, although the females are ignored throughout the ad. Nike also shows the commercials emblem “Get out here” near the end in a demanding way and Nike bases the ad on lots of American lives to connect. The commercial expresses ethos logos and pathos in an interesting approach convincing its buyers to invest in their products.

Whenever you drive down the road you see an ad. Whenever you’re on your phone or watching T.V. you will see ads. Ads are all around you wherever you go; it is close to impossible to go a day without seeing one single ad. All ads have one specific purpose, and that purpose is to make viewers intrigued to buy exactly what is being advertised. Advertisers use three strategies to draw viewers to ads, pathos, logos and ethos. These deal with emotions, logic and facts, and credibility. Ads can range anywhere from just words to pictures and if you look hard enough you will be able to locate these appeals within every ad you see. Bauer uses the appeals of pathos, logos and ethos to convince viewers that their hockey stick, the Vapor APX, is far better than any of their competitor’s sticks.

With the three forms of rhetoric -- ethos, pathos, and logos -- being modes of persuasion used to convince audiences, advertisers like MTV appeal to their audiences in this way. MTV is able to draw people’s attention to see what some people don’t realize is white privilege. The commercial includes a “geek-squad” which is a team of polished, nicely dressed white men and women chosen to assist citizens. The team members dress professionally in business attire, while other citizens wear casual, everyday outfits. With the squad team’s polished looks and proper gestures, their appearances shape the company, creating a quality first impression for the audience. Advertisers utilize ethos by focusing on the image of the company, making it seem as presentable

The advertisement overall is effective to attract the male gender. It is very common that since men are very competitive and confident, Nike would create this ad to praise men. Although, the ad is also being effective to the individual who is not fit but wants to participate in the competition which this includes running using Nike shoes. Therefore, the ad is excellent at using pathos, and logical appeal in order to persuade its purpose.

When looking the commercial on a broader sense, the viewer only sees certain key aspects of the commercial, but by using rhetorical analysis, it is much more complicated than that. By using rhetorical analysis in the context of a commercial, the people that should care about it are the viewers of the commercial themselves. By using rhetorical analysis, you can infer of the aspects that the makers of the commercial used to make their product or service seem much more interesting. Sometimes, a maker of a commercial or any work use a key aspect it to make the product or service more intriguing. For example, one of these aspects for the Tebow commercial is that of the usage of emotional appeals by Pam, when addressing the story of the near abortion of her son Tim, a well-known college football and religious figure.

To me, this commercial wasn’t just an advertisement. It was something that moved me. It explained the feelings I have towards athletics and put them into words. It was something I related to because I felt like I was talking to my future child.

Advertisements are made to persuade you to buy a certain product that a company wants you to purchase. In a Buick commercial called “Big Game” that aired during the super bowl contains a lot of different techniques to persuade you to buy their car. It is about a pee wee football game that has Cam Newton playing quarterback. This advertisement targets the American population well because it uses the most popular sport in America, and incorporates one of football’s biggest stars. It also uses little kids and a super model to appeal to a different demographic of viewers. Ethos and pathos are used to appeal to viewers in different techniques, while the lack of logos gives the viewer little factual information about the Buick cars themselves.

Most of us have probably not seen the ESPN commercial featuring the 2013-14 Texas A&M Mascot Corporal, Parker Smith. These commercials first aired in August 2014, and have since become an entire series of very popular multimedia commercials for college athletics. however, what is it about these ads that make them so appealing? To answer this question, this paper will focus on the commercial for Texas A&M University: “The SEC Network 'Take It All In' -- Texas A&M Extended Cut.” Although this commercial does astonishingly little to actually depict the product it is advertising, its clever and inconspicuous use of modes of appeal persuaded a copious amount of people to purchase the SEC Network from their cable or satellite providers. At the

Rhetorical Analysis The image that I chose was an image of Kylie Jenner makeup. The overall effect of the ad is flawless beauty. Her skin tone is perfect; her hair is laying perfectly; her eyebrows are arched to perfection; she has long lush eyelashes; perfectly highlighted face; and perfect plump lipstick lips. The thing that catches my attention is the flawlessness of her face, there’s absolutely nothing that’s not gorgeous about her makeup. Her face is dead centered of the page and you see nothing but her face and hair in the picture.

In today’s time we come across a vast amount of advertising using various forms such as outdoor billboards, print advertisements, TV commercials and online advertisements. Advertising is a very common means of getting customers to see one’s message, brand and product. However, it is apparent that advertising is intentionally deceptive in the sense that it tries to prey on one’s weaknesses as a human being. For example, beer commercials constantly use sex appeal with attractive women to charm men and perfume commercials use the idea that their product will bring women the love that they have so long desired. Likewise in the Nike advertisement featuring Serena Williams, the advertisers use vivid visual elements to convey the idea that Nike products will make the consumer popular, athletic, beautiful, skilled, talented, hardworking and ultimately successful. This definition of Nike is achieved through the use of the famous athlete, the words of the ad, her facial expression, her stance and the background scenery.

Subsequently as the ad goes on, the narrator’s tone grows drastically more ecstatic. In these scenes we are exposed to athletes who are performing in their “athletic peak”. At first we are given a swimmer who seems really intrigued as he leads a race. Afterwards a soccer player confidently sweeps at a soccer ball with the voice-over of Oscar commenting,

We feel that our ad provides the customer with a better understanding of what we are about here at Shoes of Prey. Our visual ad is what we use to draw in a majority of our customers. Ads have changed in many different ways over time. For example, most ads used to have no color which created a unintentional dark tone. If people saw ads like that today, they would most likely not buy it because we are used to colorful ads. There also used to be a limited amount of animation in ads. This was because of the lack of reliable technology that had the ability to make animated figures look appealing. There has also been an evolution of word choice in ads meaning that over time, us advertisers have learned that our choice of words have a huge impact on the customers and their final decision to buy the product or not. For example,“Don’t Hide, Run,” is located in our facebook ad. We use these word to create an intense tone so that our reader feels that they are in the ad. In the background of the ad, there is a deer that appears to be alarmed meaning that there is something near that they need to run from. We use many different devices in this ad but a main one is simile. The use of Simile here is very powerful because we are making the viewer feel like that are in the ad and that they are “the prey” without the shoes. We also used a commercial where we

Different strategies are used in all advertisements. Every aspect of the advertisement is strategically planned to appeal to the audience. For example, an advertisement that does a great job of using sex appeal to reach its audience is “Carl’s Jr all natural burger”. This ad appeared during the super bowl forty-nine, and it was a big hit. The ad features ,22-year-old model buxom, Charlotte McKinney. Throughout the video it shows her walking through the town and appearing as if she is nude. She gets all the attention from the guys in the town as she saunters past. in one scene there’s a man reaching for a tomato as she walks by, she turns around and gives him a flirty look and it emerges as if he is grasping her gluteus. At the end she appears in a bikini nearly nude “I love going all natural,” she purrs, opening wide to take a bite out of a big, juicy, “all natural” hamburger. Advertising appeals aim to influence the way consumers view themselves and how buying certain products can prove to be beneficial for them.

For example, the “Leo Messi on the road to the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ - Fast” commercial advertises a pair of Adidas soccer cleats. Furthermore, the ad is trying to persuade young athletes to buy this product. The appeal is to ethos because the ad relies on the credibility of a professional athlete. The next ad in this time slot is from Old Spice, “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.” This is in the demographic category of gender as it appeals to both men and women. Men will be great if they wear the product. Also, women should buy the product so their man will smell great.

The team tried to make the situations realistic and relatable. They based their advertisements off of their findings from their focus groups. For example they stayed away from using celebrities in most of their ads because they were perceived to be less credible than ordinary boys of girls.