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How the Advertiser Presents the Product to the Consumer and Comparing the Adverts in Mercedes-Benz and Chrysler Voyagers Ads

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How the Advertiser Presents the Product to the Consumer and Comparing the Adverts in Mercedes-Benz and Chrysler Voyagers Ads

I have chosen to compare two adverts on cars. They are for a Mercedes-Benz and a Chrysler Voyager. I will be looking at all aspects of my chosen adverts and comparing them to each other.

The advert for the Mercedes-Benz is very personal, and is constantly putting the reader in the driver’s seat. It is laid out like a cinema screen, and that comparison continues throughout the advert. The picture is very passive and immediately places the reader at the centre of the advert, and the whole layout is calming. In comparison, in the Chrysler Voyager advert the attention of the …show more content…

It then reinforces that message by saying ‘I sat back in my seat and watched the world outside’. It gives the feeling that the reader is in the car. It also reinforces the feeling of a cinema screen by saying ‘watched the world outside unfold upon the screen as if it were a silent movie’. This makes the reader feel important, and detached from the outside of the car. This is the feeling that the writers want to convey, as it presents a positive picture of what being in the car would feel like. This image that has been presented, of the reader in the driver’s seat, is backed up by the picture of the view, through the windscreen, from the driver’s point of view. The language used in the top section is very flowing, as the ride in the car would be, and it has been made smoother by use of alliteration such as ‘watched the world’, and ‘unfold upon’.

The bottom section of text starts by saying ‘Picture the scene’. This immediately makes the reader think of a scene in a movie, and then it backs that up by saying ‘set against the evenings pale and chaotic backdrop’. It also makes the reader the most important person in this scene by saying that everything is pale and boring, and chaotic in comparison to the Mercedes and its owner. The text then goes on to make the car seem more that just a machine by using a

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