The Humane Society of the United States, HSUS, has released many commercials to show the terrible conditions that some animals are subject to live in. These commercials also promote the need for people to adopt from shelters, and give these animals a second chance at a better life. This commercial in particular shows singer, and 3rd place contestant on “The Voice”, Christina Grimmie, playing the piano, and singing her version of Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero”. As she sings, many pictures and videos of animals being rescued from their terrible conditions play on a screen behind her. This commercial definitely pulls on the heart strings of animal-lovers by using the rhetoric devices of ethos, pathos, and logos in a very subtle, yet precise way. The first use of rhetoric that is seen is at the start of the commercial. The commercial opens by simply showing the symbol for the Humane Society of the United States, which is the shape of the United States made up of animals. It then shows the animals being rescued by the teams of people that work for the HSUS. Every worker is wearing a shirt with the HSUS logo on it. Opening up with their symbol, and showing the pictures and videos of the recues with workers wearing HSUS attire establishes their good use of ethos. When a person watches this commercial, they see that the Humane Society of the United States is an organization that is built around the belief that animals want, and need to be cared for and loved. It
The appeal logos, is probably the rhetorical strategy that lacks the most in this commercial. There are only a couple instances in the commercial that I believe Budweiser was trying to use logos to persuade the audience. Throughout the advertisement the producers of the commercial try to create an image of friendship between the horse, dog, and the man (the owner). They also portray the qualities of trustworthiness and pride through the golden retriever. By portraying these qualities through the dog, they furthermore reflect those qualities in the company, Budweiser. Since they used a dog as their spokesperson, they had to get the audience to appeal to the puppy in order to understand the message presented by the company. When the commercial
This goes to show how social media plays such a big impact on the rhetoric we see today. Rhetoric is not only seen on media but is also seen on television. Carroll explains, “...a commercial
In any given setting, the main objective of using of using rhetoric is to make the message more effective and convincing the audience to act or abide by the message being transmitted to them. Persuasion in television advertisement in television commercial is aimed at reaching millions of customers and potential customers. The state farm insurance company has not been left behind in trying to utilize the power of rhetoric in most of it television commercials to marketing their services and lure new customers to join the rest in using the company services. As we will see from the evidence later in this research, this state firm video "Like a Good Neighbor, state farm is there” utilizes a number of strategies that have been borrowed from the Compliance Gaining Theory its endeavor to effectively persuade its audience. According to the theory, Compliance gaining involves efforts put in place to gain customer loyalty by focusing on choices that people make about what has been said when trying to be persuaded to behave in predetermined manner about the massage sent to them (O'Shaughnessy and O'Shaughnessy 21). This research article is intended to show that yes the commercial video, “Just like a Good neighbor, state farm is there” is effective in transmitting the intended message to the
Logos is another major appeal to rhetoric. Logos are used to explain logic and reasoning to an audience. Many companies use logos to help give the buyer a sense of logic and explanation as to what their product is about. Both advertisements use logos in different ways. The Gatorade commercial uses logos in two powerful ways.
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
Two techniques in particular are ethos and plain folks. Ethos focuses on the emotional reaction to a piece and how well the ethos is displayed determines the effect it has on others. The impression lasting is what makes it so powerful. This lasting impression is carried on by the technique called plain folks. This is incorporated by a normal woman helping these animals and this gives us the impression that we can help just as she has. This also emphasizes a lasting impression. This campaign connects to everyday values by connecting the emotion to our own lives and showing how it affects our lives. It is stated that in animal abuse cases, “64.5 percent (1,212) involved dogs.” (CNN 1). The commercial makes change
This is just one method the ASPCA announcement uses to make its audience sad. The pathos technique is also employed by the use of music in this advertisement. “Angel” by Sarah Mclachlan is a very powerful and emotional piece. The song has undoubtedly sad tone. The song’s message resonates perfectly with the advertisement’s message, and it suggests that the audience can be the animals’ angels or saviors.
One of the most influential advertisements that is frequently shown on television that use these three appeals is the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) commercials that urge viewers to help the organizations by adopting an animal in need, by donating money, by volunteering their time, or a combination thereof. In order to convey their message, these television advertisements use ethos to establish credibility. One of the ways in which credibility can be established is through the use of a celebrity (Johnson, 2011). "Ethos is the appeal of a speaker's/actor's character or authority, such as the use of local celebrities or the business owner/employees in a company's advertising" (Johnson, 2011). Musician Sarah McLaughlin helps to promote the ASPCA's mission (ASPCA Commercial, 2008). Sarah McLaughlin is seen as a credible celebrity. Her image as a credible source is further enhanced through the introduction of a canine companion, a golden retriever. In addition to having McLaughlin as a spokesperson for the ASPCA, the organization itself is a credible source. Established
The most abundant form of rhetoric you can see in this particular ad is the use of logos. The narrator
American’s most savored beverage is beer. It’s one of the top consumed drinks and can be drank for different occasions. Budweiser, one of the most top selling beer companies puts out their commercials to advertise their beers. While their commercials are used to produce sales, what most don’t see is the message they associate when drinking a Budweiser. These commercials often use rhetoric to persuade us. Rhetorical devices are used to be the most effective way to persuade and audience into thinking. Pathos, ethos, and logos are used to make a powerful statement to be successful in their beer sales.
The sad puppy comes onto your screen with the narration, “For 15 cents a day, you could save a life just like this one.” While this is playing, you get a sense of sadness and sympathy for that animal and you want to do everything you can to help it. This is just one of the many different ways that people have used some form of rhetoric to help them prove a point or possibly persuade someone, in this case, it was for you to donate some money. Using rhetoric isn’t as simple as using ethos, logos, and/or pathos, as most people think. In fact, in the essay What Is Rhetoric?
This advertisement also uses major topics in today’s society to draw people in. In the first section of the commercial, it uses whale extinction and McCarthy trying to save them. Secondly, it uses deforestation and the efforts to save the trees as another environmental draw-in. In the third slot, it focuses on global warming and the melting ice caps. And lastly, the commercial uses the extinction of rhinos (K. 2017.). This establishes Ethos by showing that the company is aware of the problems in the world today. These environmental issues have been a problem for several years, and there are many people that are concerned for them. By using them to pull people in, they are opening their audience to not only people who like the outdoors, but also to people who want to be heroes.
There are millions of commercials. All of them have different audience and purpose. Advertisement maker tries to convey audience to look at their point of view, which can be political, social or convincing them to buy their product instead of others. According to the article “Rhetoric and Advertising” more than 2,000 years ago the Aristotle came up with three different categories to describe how people use rhetoric to persuade people: ethos, pathos and logos. Each of these terms describes different way to try to reach an audience and convince them to agree with you. Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Many ad makers use 2 of 3 techniques in their ad. Commercial maker uses logos and ethos a lot while making a commercial. For example, Luna commercial. Luna is a carpeting company who installs new carpet in houses at the discounted prices. They always have a promotions going on which includes get carpet in 2 rooms and get the 3rd one for free, by doing this they are attracting customers, this is example of ethos. They also have a catchy audio which makes people remember their number (773-241-LUNA) this is an example of logos. They also have family who are dressed well talking about how good their
Advertisers use a variety of appeals to convince the viewer’s to buy certain products or bring a topic to the awareness of the viewer. The anti-child abuse announcement that San Francisco Human Services Agency released is no different. A public service announcement is designed to publicize a problem the nation is facing. Advertisements can appeal to the audience through a variety of elements such as images and speech. In this advertisement pathos and ethos are represented through the sounds and visual content while logos is presented through the statistics given at the end of the advertisement. With this advertisement it is also important to consider the
The commercial appeals to the audience’s pathos more than anything. Animals, especially dogs, have a way of pulling with human heartstrings. “...they can be used to transfer desired meanings to the products with which they are associated” (Phillips 1). In other words, using animals in advertisements can link advertised products to the feelings that are associated