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There are bodily hygiene advertisements in almost every magazine, TV station, radio station, billboards, and even postal mail. Every one of them is different and is trying to send a different message to a certain group that the product would most likely appeal to. The 0ctober 2011 issue number 1141 of Rolling Stone magazine there is an ad for Old spice men’s soaps, cologne, and deodorant that is a very interesting to the college age kids and music enthusiast that would normally read it. Through the advertisements use of layout and models, Old Spice has effectively caught the eyes of the many people that would stumble across it.

Pathos appeals to the audience’s emotions [1]. This commercial, as any other one, is full of pathos trying to sell “masculinity”. The language used in the advertisement attempts to trigger emotions in younger males telling them that they will feel manly if they drink this soda. Capital letters of the tagline and the word “women”, which is highlighted, intensify the enthusiasm in an attempt to attack its audience emotionally. The can containing Dr. Pepper logotype also visually appeals to men. The design, colours and font are plain and simple.

Pathos is brilliant in the fact that everybody feels emotion and would be affected by some of these commercials. For example, Lyndon B. Johnson has a commercial which consists of a sweet little girl looking around, leading to the explosion of a bomb. What happens right after is that he says “vote for me”, which creates the underlying tone that this would happen to kids if they don’t vote for him. In the Kennedy jingle, he doesn’t use pathos for an argument as much as he uses it for rhyming. Rhyming is a catch to most and it is easy to get stuck in your thoughts.

Watching the commercial for the first time, keeping in mind how it used pathos, ethos, and logos, I noticed that it does not utilize ethos nor logos to promote the commercials product. The commercial relies heavily on pathos to connect with its audience. The commercial plays on such emotions as: patriotism, encouragement, and inspiration. The advertisement also speaks to a comprehensive

Pathos plays a large role in this commercial, as it manipulates the audience’s emotions. Both a juxtaposition and pathos is shown to the audience when the couple begins to fight about bills. Then, Sarah looks at Juan and gives him some Extra Gum. Since the gum brings back good memories, Juan hugs Sarah and everything is okay again. This is appealing to pathos because the rhetor evokes emotions such as sadness and sympathy; the audience is feeling sympathetic due to this conflict in the story. When everything got better again, the audience remembers that every time the gum was exchanged, it had a positive effect for Sarah and Juan. This element works to achieve the rhetor’s purpose by evoking sadness in the audience, and then making the Extra gum by association the “savior” in each situation they encounter. Through their long distance

The two ads I chose were the Nationwide ‘Baby’ commercial and the Progressive prank protection commercial. I chose these ads because they show a practical product, that most people use, in an funny and unrelated way. The nationwide ad shows a man taking care of a baby as if it is a car. This commercial is used to promote car insurance. The progressive ad shows agents Flo and Jamie sneaking around in the night pulling off their own version of pranks: fixing mailboxes, replacing windows, and leaving paper bags with money on doorsteps. This commercial is used to promote home insurance. Nationwide and Progressive are two well-known insurance companies.

The two commercials that I thought were persuasive were the Skittles commercial and the Ford commercial.These commercials were in my opinion the most persuasive out of all the commercials because they used humor, and they were still very persuasive. The ford commercial being more persuasive than the skittles commercial I still liked them both equally.The Skittles commercial was more about being humorous rather than being so persuasive but was still very persuasive.

The Superbowl commercial that was most persuasive and entertaining was Doritos Blaze v.s. Mountain Dew Ice. In the commercial the two have a battle, hot v.s. cold. Today everyone craves new foods from on TV and it all depends on the advertising of the object. The fun attractive thing about this commercial was the songs they chose and the famous celebrities for the commercial. The main two celebs in this advertisement were Peter Dinklage and Morgan Freeman who well known in the US. This commercial will surely make people dance, sing along, and persuaded to try both products advertised.

The advertisement that persuaded me the most is probably the "Alexa Losses Her Voice" commercial. Not only because I liked the way it had a way to connect to the world web and have artificial intelligence, but it was the way it was advertised. When you think about it, you might agree too, because it also added a touch of comedy, and what makes most things become an interest? Comedy itself.

Pathos is the emotions triggered in yourself or other people. Feelings are infectious and the commercial business knows this. The purpose of this Extra Gum commercial was to persuade the audience to buy their product. The song in the commercial "Can't Help Falling In Love" sets the feel of the commercial and draws the crowds consideration towards the item.This commercial tries to convince the audience that the use of the gum can also be for love and compassion and not just for good smelling minty breath. It gives the buyers hope that they may find romance in their life if they buy extra gum.

Words like “help,” “feel,” and “faster,” are used in this ad to subtly make readers believe that NyQuil will cure Mom’s illness quickly when, in fact, they really only say that the products might make her symptoms briefly subside quicker than another indistinct method of treatment. This subtle method of advertisement is actually very common in all types of ads. Another technique used to attract attention of audiences is the adorable image of a mother and daughter playing dress up together. When someone sees this image, they are expected to feel strong, loving emotion for the seemingly deep mother-daughter connection in the photo. This mode of persuasion, pathos, is used to play on the emotions of viewers who see this ad. By using pathos in advertising, advertisers are also showing the main values of a culture.

The commercial I chose would be the skittles tree commercial. The first observation made would be the color scheme. The commercial does not really use bright greens on the plants around the characters, but instead the plants look almost drought stressed because of how yellow tinted the leaves are. I also notice that the mother and son are wearing lighter colors besides the burnt red vest the son is wearing, but I would still consider their clothing in very “earthy” or natural tones. The commercial is not in the best quality, and I think it may be because it is an older commercial, which may explain why the colors are so dull. At the end of the commercial, very bright words are displayed with the skittles logo. Usually people are attracted to

Advertisements these days use many different techniques in order to sell a product. The Old Spice Company uses several methods to convey a message and sell their product. Old Spice commercials are well known for using the famous Isaiah Mustafa, wrapped in just a towel, to talk about the company’s product. While Mustafa walks and talks, the background and setting of the commercial changes and the actor never loses eye contact. The product is always shown throughout the entire commercial. By combining all the elements of gender stereotyping, sexual imagery, and racial innuendoes, Old Spice is able to convey a message to sell their hygienic products.

The Old Spice commercial persuade the viewers to purchasing the body wash. The adverstiments were targeting couples; however, their main focus was to persuade females more than males. The Old Spice commercial targets female because they would go shopping and buy fragrance and soap products. In the adverstiments, Old Spice man said “I ‘am the man your man could smell like” were speaking directly to the female audience. The Old Spice commercial wanted to encourage females to go out shopping and buy Old Spice body wash in order to have their

Leo Burnett once said, "Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink." We see ads every day as we go through our lives, whether it’s on the TV, stamped onto the clothes we wear, or played through the radio as we drive to work or to school. Not all of these ads are effective or memorable. An effective ad is one that appeals to human emotions (pathos), logic (logos), ethics (ethos), and how timely it is (kairos). The Mr. Clean | Cleaner of Your Dreams commercial is efficacious in selling cleaning products because it uses pathos, ethos, and kairos to appeal to a male demographic.