Doritos Commercial Essay

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An effective commercial persuades the viewer to go buy the product or service. The “Doritos” commercial which utilized dogs advertises its product so well by portraying the Doritos bag as so irresistible that it made the dogs behave as humans in order to get the bag of chips. The “Doritos” commercial appropriately persuades viewers of all ages to buy their product by using the classical appeals: pathos, ethos, logos, and kairos. The term logos convince the viewers why he or she should buy the product by logical appeal. Facts can also play a major role in the logos of a commercial. For example, Doritos were the first tortilla chips nationally released in the United States (Sheehan). This fact makes the viewer feel like it is the best tortilla chip since it was the first nationally released. However, this commercial doesn’t use much logos. It doesn’t use percentage or any information about the chips that stick out during the commercial. Logos for this commercial did not really pop out to the viewer; therefore, the commercial did not create much of a logical appeal. …show more content…

The “Doritos” commercial creates a sense of humor by doing the following: uses the dogs to act like a human to get past the manager and get the bag of chips, by getting the cash register to do a funny “Whaaaaat. . .” when she sees the dogs dressed as a human, and also when the manager tells the “man” have a good day as the dogs wobble out the store with the bags of chips. Music can also play a major role in the pathos of a commercial. In this commercial, it uses the song “The Thieving Magpie” by Gioachino Rossini. This song fits the theme perfectly with the dogs acting in a mischievous way. All these points of pathos really capture the viewers’ attention by appealing to their

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