How To Analyze Chip Advertisements

Thus, by creating appeals to logos, pathos, and ethos, companies use advertisements as powerful persuasive tools. This can be done through the careful selection of color, imagery, narration, design, and layout, to name a few significant elements. When used correctly, these rhetorical strategies can make the difference between whether a product or idea is embraced or rejected by the

For women, advertising exemplifies the ideal female body. According to Kilbourne, young girls are taught from a very early age that they need to spend lots of time and money to achieve this “physical perfection.” But realistically this cannot be achieved. The ideal woman’s body is Caucasian, very skinny, big breasts, no flaws, and pretty much no pores. This cannot be achieved because it is physically impossible to look like this; the illusion comes from the secret world of Photoshop. No woman is beautiful enough so they leave it to technology to create perfection. The supermodel Cindy Crawford said, “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford!” She knew the realities of Photoshop and body image, and more women and girls need to become aware of this as well.

The largest, most eye-catching image in the advertisement is that of a model of color. Then, to pose contrast, the advertisement also provides an image of a very light-skinned model. Additionally, there are models with skin tones in between. Further, the advertisement includes a male model. This fulfills the pathological appeal to identity; L’Oreal intends for a large variety of people to identify with this advertisement. As previously mentioned, other makeup brands have come under fire for not including makeup intended for darker complexions. They have also been criticized for not using models that represent these groups. L’Oreal aims to establish itself differently: this brand wants to cater to the lightest and the

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.

The Cover Girl ad from March 2011 includes a picture of Queen Latifah in a beige like colored background with her green eye shadow on. Queen Latifah has small brown eyes with very long and luscious black eye lashes. She has a big and beautiful smile with shiny white and straight teeth. Queen Latifah also has a nice pair of small, gold, round dangling earrings in her ears. The word “Cover Girl” is displayed in big and bold green letters across her forehead, all to help improve her the way she looks. Queen Latifah is written in small green letters underneath in the right-hand corner right underneath the word “Cover Girl”. This picture of her is from her head to her shoulders, just enough for the viewers to focus on Cover Girl’s product, which is the makeup. You cannot really tell what type of shirt she is wearing in this photo but the little piece of frill coming off of her shoulder matches pretty well with the whole color scheme of the ad. She also has her hair pulled back into a long pony tail to also help show off their product even more. This advertisement by Cover Girl effectively uses logos, ethos, and pathos to convince the viewers to buy Cover Girl products.

In this ad, an Ethos or ethical appeal has a great impact using Taylor Swift as the “credible” actor, a famous American singer, and a songwriter. She’s attractive and has a beautiful clear skin. To the girls viewing this ad, it seems like Taylor uses the Covergirl foundation to give her that flawless skin making her face feel light weighted.

People see thousands of ads each year. It may seem like the company who designed and create this ad just put whatever looked best and would draw the viewer's attention but the use of word and images on ads go much deeper. For example this ad was found while shopping for shoes online. This ad shows a persons holding a cigarette, this persons hand is shaped as a gun but what the ad wants to readers attention to go to would be not the hand in the front but the shadow in the back, the shadow is a hand but instead of holding a cigarette, the hand is holding a gun. This shadow is meant to represent the reality of what a cigarette can do for a person's health.

In the ad there is the custom of bright colors that is used in a soft way lot to get some kind of interaction and effect with the audience and the product itself because it “confirms that purchasing intent is greatly affected by colors due to the impact they have on how a brand is perceived”(Ciotti) meaning “colors influence how consumers view the "personality" of the brand.” (Ciotti) And from the looks of the personality of the brand it was known that Cover Girl has been out for a long time and knows what makes it a popular makeup brand that has made color affects a big part of their brand they used in their advertisements and

The text is a simple black and white besides one word that is a hot pink color. The hot pink word states that there is a brand new product. The audience sees the different color and suddenly is aware that they need the product that has not been revealed yet. The other large words are the brand, the word flawless, and the 1 through 3 which allows the audience to be drawn in by this. When reading a teen magazine there are small lettering articles, but an ad must use big lettering to get the point across fast.

Today’s quick-moving world of technology has media texts such as advertisements to make sure that people understand with just a glance. Having adverts on magazines, social media and billboards allow them to use tools such as semiology, genre and narrative because it makes their messages clear instantly. These signs allow us to carry meaning through advertisements, connotations and the signification process. These tools let brands, mainly celebrities, and the option to produce and create a myth of the product such as “Be daring. Be an inspiration” to sell it to the world. We are in a time where advertisers use ‘simplicity’ in their adverts; there are no more paragraphs. It is mainly down to the person and the few words shown in that advert.

The use of bold and capital letters aids the effectiveness in both advertisements. Capital but, bolded letters capture the audience's attention and cause the audience to read the words at a slower pace, aiding the audience’s ability to recall the message presented by the ad (Altan, Ruth). Chick-fil-a’s ad uses bold but, capital letters while stating “SMART PEEPLE EAT CHIKIN” (McDowell, Jim). Dunkin Donuts’ advertiser also utilizes the same technique.The decision to implement bold but, capital letters in both ads encourages the audience to remember the Dunkin Donuts and Chick-fil-a instead of competitors.

This sends the message to the reader that the advertisement is unbiased. It says that the ad does not have anything against obese children. The more subliminal part of the message says that balance is key in solving the problem, which would in this case be a balanced diet and activity routine. The fact that the whole picture is black and white provides a somewhat grim tone for the ad at first glance, making the audience instantly take the matter seriously. Orange has two meanings; cheer and friendliness, because of the sweet taste associated with orange foods and drinks, or hazards and danger, as orange catches the eye quickly considering is not common in nature and our brain is wired to detect abnormalities (“The Psychology of”). Hunting vests and construction signs are orange for this reason. In this case, the clear intended meaning is to warn against the dangers of childhood obesity. The combination of the two colors paints the advertisement as a grim and hazardous situation that is trying to provide warning for an upcoming peril, which is an ideal setting for trying to caution the public about the widespread yet relatively untreated problem of childhood obesity, also known as the silent epidemic (“The Silent Epidemic”). It is especially fitting in Georgia, which has the second highest rate of childhood obesity in the United States (Loren). There is also a sharp contrast between the colors, so it amplifies the attention-grabbing capabilities

This advertisement for Ralph Lauren’s cologne “Red” screams power . In this specific layout, there are numerous images of a man being in expensive car’s and having women drive his boat. Those actions give off a vibe that advertisers believe this type of living is what all men truly want and desire. The advertisers try to capture the viewers attention by providing unique color schemes, texts, and images that draw them in. Not only are the red and black colors symbolism for power but it’s also the way the advertisers wrote their headlines. The name of the cologne is capitalized and italicized which shows a sense of power and priority to viewers.

People who make advertisements for companies work really hard to make a unique advertisement that is different than other companies, that are selling related products. It could take months to make an ad to satisfy the companies expectation for what they expect in their advertisement and hoping that they can convince the readers the buy the product, they focus on the small details to make an ad unique compared to other advertisement. People are blasted with myriad amount of advertisements, but what captures their attention is something they could relate to, something that is pointed to them and something that isn’t common to what they see in everyday ads. Advertisers want to capture the attention their audiences by the simplicity, color scheme and using rhetorical methods such as pathos, ethos and logos. The “Don’t Drink and Drive” ad talks about crucial issue that could take someone’s life away, and was published by BMW and has all three rhetorical methods to make a miraculous advertisement.

It’s the overuse of Photoshop in beauty ads that also plays a large part in our changed view of womanhood. We are shown how the woman on the cover and are expected to believe this is how she naturally looks, but with a bit of makeup. Heavily edited