An Analyzing for Appeals and Strategy of BMW Advertisement
Helen Ingham states that “Depending upon the media used, adverts generally consist of images, text and sound. Each of these aspects are encoded with various meaning and messages, some of which are associated with the particular product the advertisement is trying to sell, and some of which are associated with its image.” According to Ingham, ads/commercials are everywhere, and they all have one thing in common. They all contain the messages that mainly aim to persuade people to consume their product. By various different methods, they slowly engage the consumers’ needs in certain ways. The most common strategy that ads/commercials are using may also include any of the fifteen basic appeals by Jib Fowles. In Fowles’s article “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals”, he discovered the 15Human emotional appeals that advertisers use to market their products. He writes, “By giving form to people’s deep-lying desires and picturing states of being that individuals privately yearn for, advertisers have the best chance of arresting attention and affecting communications.” The Ultimate Driving Machine BMW nine minute commercial called “Star” directed by Guy Ritchie is focused on their new model of BMW M5 2000 featuring celebrities Clive Owen and Madonna. More to the observation, their strategy was to use one celebrity style of catch the audience’s attention, and four emotional appeals, which were the need to escape, the need to aggress, the need to achieve, and the need to feel safe to persuade their audience.
The nine-minute commercial “Star” by BMW is mainly focusing on introducing their new BMW M5 2000 model featuring Clive Owen and Madonna. Fowles states, “Some common ingredien...
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...tegy they use is within the fifteen human emotional appeals. The Commercial “Star” by BMW featuring their new model of M5 uses the total of four emotional appeals, which were the need to escape, the need to aggress, the need to achieve, and the need to feel safe. In addition, they also use one celebrity style to catch the consumer’s attention. This ad has well use the human weaknesses which is the emotional appeals found in human being. Because people like to look and listen at their favored celebrity, they surely will pay attention to what their celebrity say or do. Because people are born with full of needs, they have the tendency to listen and keep their attention open for any beneficial need. Because people need so many stuff, the BMW’s star commercial has given them all the need that they want in other to have them join the bandwagon for their marketing product.
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Michael Jordan has star power that bridges age, race, and socioeconomic class. Nike understands this aspect of the popular superstar and decided to give him his own clothing line named Jumpman23. It is the most popular form of sports apparel available and the white logo that adorns each article of apparel is known worldwide. Michael Jordan is arguably the most loved and respected athlete of this generation, thus the ad for this company depicted in ESPN The Magazine takes advantage of his immense popularity. In an attempt to expand the companies influence Jumpman23 uses professional baseball player Derrick Jeter to send its message and promote its apparel. In the essay “Absolution for Sale,” Charity Miller writes, “We live in a world of images. Among the most persuasive and insistent of these images are those directed at us by advertising. These images often do more then simply try to persuade us to buy a particular product or use a particular service. More subtly, they influence us by appealing to our desires or exploiting our emotions.” The image of Jeter training alone in a gym clothed head to toe in Michael Jordan’s clothing line combine with a poem above describing his intentions. This scene portrays the hard work and dedication that will eventually lead to success as things an athlete of any level should expect while wearing the clothing. Michael Jordan takes advantage of his legend on the basketball court and his appeal worldwide to create a line of apparel that demands the same work ethic from those who wear it. Its success is in Jumpman23’s ability to interest buyers no matter what age, race, or sport.
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.
Why are Super Bowl commercials important and popular in American culture? The Super Bowl is historically known for having high viewers. There is an average of 112.2 million viewers watching the game (Marketing Charts). Americans are anxious to watch this televised game because there are many high profile companies that broadcast their new commercials and upcoming products. Most of these advertisers are portraying their products as a luxury or as a necessity in the everyday life. Advertisement companies influence buyer’s choices by portraying their luxurious products as a necessity. It is evident and clear that consumers acquire products that enhance their image and prestige. In other words, “products were made to appear not only desirable, but absolutely necessary” (Maasik and Solomon 177). Audi for example, is known as a German brand associated with lavishness and prestige. Therefore, Audi successfully influences consumers to link the purchase of their exclusive and classic vehicles to acquiring a high status symbol. Audi’s commercials use real-life examples in order to connect with their audience. As Solomon mentioned, “If the American dream encourages the desire to “arrive,” to vault about the mass, it also fosters a desire to be popular, to “belong” (545).” According to Solomon many populist commercials transform products into signs of belonging and usually appeals working class values (Solomon 545). Audi concentrates in producing ads with scenarios because they want their audience to specifically imagine themselves driving the vehicle at the moment that they are watching the commercial. For example, the television ad presented on the Super Bowl (2013) by Audi, “Prom,” suggests the importance of attaining a product that is lu...
The forming of an idea into a person’s mind and having the person think that it was their own idea has intrigued the attention of corporations and the media for years. Corporations are driven by the desire to sell and increase their profits. They have mastered ways of manipulating and creating methods to gain people’s attention and have them act upon the messages being sent. Kia in this commercial manipulates audience by creating a fantasy life that anyone can connect too, be desired by women, and live a rock star life.
Have you ever seen an advertisement for a product and could immediately relate to the subject or the product in that advertisement? Companies that sell products are always trying to find new and interesting ways to get buyers and get people’s attention. It has become a part of our society today to always have products being shown to them. As claimed in Elizabeth Thoman’s essay Rise of the Image Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream, “…advertising offered instructions on how to dress, how to behave, how to appear to others in order to gain approval and avoid rejection”. This statement is true because most of the time buyers are persuaded by ads for certain products.
“What We are to Advertisers” by James B. Twitchell is a short article that emphasize how advertisement attracts audience magically. From the quote, “ Mass production means mass marketing, and mass marketing means the creation of mass stereotypes” James points out of how the world appear to be. The advertisers seems to be psychologically abuse to the public for them to be successful in their industry. Base on the way the society act, dress and thinks, we fantasize something ridiculous and only our imagination can only make it close to a reality. With that in mind, the industry of advertisements will immediately think of a way to try and sell their product to us.
According to Robert Scholes, author of On Reading a Video Text, commercials aired on television hold a dynamic power over human beings on a subconscious level. He believes that through the use of specific tools, commercials can hold the minds of an audience captive, and can control their abilities to think rationally. Visual fascination, one of the tools Scholes believes captures the minds of viewers, can take a simple video, and through the use of editing and special effects, turn it into a powerful scene which one simply cannot take his or her eyes from. Narrativity is yet another way Scholes feels commercials can take control of the thoughts of a person sitting in front of the television. Through the use of specific words, sounds, accompanying statements and or music, a television commercial can hold a viewer’s mind within its grasp, just long enough to confuse someone into buying a product for the wrong reason. The most significant power over the population held by television commercials is that of cultural reinforcement, as Scholes calls it. By offering a human relation throughout itself, a commercial can link with the masses as though it’s speaking to the individual viewer on an equal level. A commercial In his essay, Scholes analyzes a Budweiser commercial in an effort to prove his statements about the aforementioned tools.
The viewer sits on the couch, nestled inside a cozy, warm blanket with a large bowl of buttery and salty popcorn on his lap. His heart starts racing as the movie reaches its climax. Just as his lungs stop breathing and his eyes grow wide with fascination, the channel changes to an old advertisement that he’s seen a thousand times. Ads like that one appeal to the three main techniques that have subliminal messages to viewers. These different techniques have proven to be effective with television watchers. Advertisers use these three techniques to target a certain audience.
“We walk out of the shadows, quietly walk out of the dark, and strike.” The Maserati super bowl commercial in 2014 was not just trying to sell a product, it was trying to sell an idea as well. There was purpose in every second of this commercial. Throughout the commercial there were many factors that led up to portraying the underlying meaning of the commercial, not just having the product shown. Maserati used people in the commercial, what the people were doing, background noise, the audience being appealed to, and the actual product being shown to help get not only the product across to the audience, but also an idea to go along with the product.
Lebron James then gets off the car wearing a lavishing tuxedo with sunglasses and hands the valet parking guy the keys to park the car. Lastly, the commercial shows plenty of people cheering for Lebron as he walks through the red carpet. The commercial is effective because it shows audience the luxurious exterior and interior of the car. It was also memorable because it shows one of the most famous basketball player drive the car, which makes the audience remember it and want the car even more. This commercial is ethos because most people believe almost anything famous people say. For example, they think that Lebron James actually likes the Kia car because he was driving it, however, he got paid to be in that
Nowadays, commercial is becoming a major part of mass media. It does not only try to inform people about the availability and attractiveness of industrial good productions but also contribute to build an awareness of resources and alternatives for customer in daily life. There are thousands of commercials, so to attract customer, advertisers use various kinds on their commercial to make people aware of the firm's products, services or brands. Though they use various kinds on the commercial, the main goal of advertising tries to convince customer to buy their products, or do what they want. An excellent commercial will create a deep impression on their customers, or who want to become their customers by using three classical appeals: pathos, ethos and logos.
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