Ethos Pathos And Logos In Advertising

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Everyone loves old people. The elderly as a whole are viewed as a wise, tough, and compassionate group. Dodge takes advantage of this fact in their most recent commercial featuring elderly people who are all around 100 years old, to associate their brand as a well established, trustworthy, and reliable company. The ad is effective in leveraging the wisdom and knowledge of the elderly while associating Dodge as a brand that utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos in their commercials. Dodge takes advantage of societies general admiration and trust in general for the elderly and use these feelings to try and persuade people to purchase their vehicle, in particular the Dodge Challenger. The ad is 1:01 in length and features eight elderly men and seven elderly woman. The choice to use a relatively equal amount of men and women comes off well to the audience because there is no abundance of a single gender and it helps broaden the audience to both men and women. It also begins with an elderly man holding a picture of himself from what appears to be World War II which utilizes ethos due to the fact it builds a sense of trust because he served in the military and that makes him a more trustworthy person. The ad utilizes both ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the whole ad, …show more content…

Like I was saying earlier the lightning is directed in a way that it captures the speakers age in their face, their faces are weathered, wrinkled, and aged in general. The lighting is also warm and natural looking so it depicts them as aged, happy people. This allows for pity from the audience due to the fact that they are obviously old and are nearing the end of their experience on Earth. Also in the beginning of the commercial one of the elderly ladies states, “stay young” this evokes a sense of compassion towards her due to the fact she is speaking to a younger

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