Chrysler Commercial Comparison

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Amy Amaral Enl 257 3/15/12 Paper 2 Persuasion Takes Time A company can create a commercial so persuasive, it provokes their audience to take action and go buy their product. The commercial cannot be as simple as one two three, “(1)Here is our product .(2) It is the best money can buy! (3) Now go buy our product!” The company needs to gain the audience’s trust by supporting their claim with evidence as to how their product is the best. The company’s product may not be the best, it might even be the worst, but if they can plant the idea in the audience’s mind, they can persuade them to purchase a particular product. This takes a great amount of skill and thought. First, the company needs to pinpoint an audience, more professionally called pathos. Second, the company must establish an ethos, or character, to connect their values to the audience’s. Third, the company must develop overall logos, or purpose to show the audience their intentions. These are the three basic steps to developing a commercial into a persuasive argument. In the mix the company must also have a specific message to convey (maybe more than one), a claim (usually stated as “buy our product!”), a warrant (an underlying claim that unifies the audience), and many different pieces of evidence such as examples and imagery to help alter the emotional state of the audience. The 2011 Super bowl commercial for Chrysler and the 2012 Super bowl commercial for Chrysler are great examples showing how the company was able to take a flawed persuasive car commercial and develop into one of the strongest commercials developed by using the elements of ethos, pathos and logos. Pathos is the audience and how the rhetor, or in this case the company, “appeal to human emotion” (246) and “emotions can also move people to action” (250). “Members of an audience may hold one of three attitudes toward an issue…they may

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