Sunday, October 12, 2014

Videos with ethos, pathos, and logos

I have three awesome advertising videos that use Pathos mostly with a little bit of Logos and Ethos, I wanted to show them all three to you, but I will only be writing about one.

Video One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAlyHUWjNjE
Video Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQB7QRyF4p4
Video Three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pubTiDCEVZ8

I will be writing on Commercial number one.
     
       This commercial appeals to your emotions because it gives you a very sad feeling, but then you get this feel of happiness as well. You get this sad feeling first, when the boy is spray painting because it seems like he is having family issues and the only way for him to feel better is to spray paint a wall. Also, you feel a sense of hurt because the boy is all alone and he looks pretty sad, and like something is really wrong with him, and he needs someone to care about him, at first when I was watching I thought he had a horrible home life or was a street kid. You also feel sad, when you see his little sister in the bed with a oxygen tube on and she just looks so unhappy basically miserable. Once the brother opens the curtains and the sick little girl see the flower and words be brave, she gets a smile on her face and she looks happy and so does the brother, so you feel happiness because he did it for his little sister and even at that point the mother was proud.
     This commercial shows Logos, because it has some logic in it, or at least I see some logical explanation to this. I believe when he first ran out and started spray painting was when logos first appeared because he had to have a logical reason for doing what he had done, and come to find out, he did. Also, I see logos when the brother opens the curtains, and the sick little sister sees the colorful flowers and words be brave. This is logical because a sick child must be brave in order to heal and get better, so the words there are very true. He shows her encouragement and that she can do it and be a fighter. It can also be proven that someone sick must be brave because of all the work being done to them, so it is actually a real reason.
   This commercial does not really show ethos very much because it is the best credible source. But I do believe this video is credible because it shows an older brother will do anything to bring a smile on his little sister face, which can be credible I believe. Also, this video shows that the brother believes in his sister in that she is brave and can get better, which is credible. This is believable because it is true that one must be brave.

1 comment:

  1. Nice work. Avoid using "you" in your analyses in the future, though. Direct your comments to a third person audience. So "you feel sad" is replaced by "a parent would feel sad." But you seem to have a good grasp on rhetorical analysis. Keep it up!

    Nick

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