When it comes to the question of what I think they are trying to create, I believe they are trying to portray this superior man of men image. I am able to link this ad with others that I have seen for old spice in the same manner. Such as a commercial I remember about “the man that your man could smell like” the slogan of the ad is that “We're not saying this body wash will make your man into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but we are insinuating it.” This reinforces my point that the company Old Spice is trying to create a superior image that their body wash represents.…
The advertisement is a full page with little text. It has vivid fiery eye catching colors. Skyy Vodka bottle is being gently iced by a well manicured hand. The bottle is a sharp navy blue with silver print, bolding the Skyy text for emphasize and the entire ad is featured with a red background. A translucent crisp cube of ice is being held by the hand of a woman with long red nails. Skyy Vodka advertisement’s blue and red contrast speak volumes about what this product is trying to tell customers: that Skyy Vodka makes you cool, calm, sleek, and collective even in the zestiest situations. It achieves it message by adding sublet touches in the picture such as the droplets of water melting away from the ice onto the woman’s well groomed hand and the Skyy Vodka bottle. This is a simplistic ad that’s intended for the imagery to convey its message.…
This advertisement has clearly appropriated the concept and feelings around cat woman and cats in general. Cats are often known as mischievous animals, which is how the model relates to the slogan of the perfume, “discover the new mischievous fragrance”. Cats are also known to play with ribbons which is which a pink ribbon is seen floating through the Paris and around the model. With the word discover in pink font in the slogan, we then relate the pink ribbon to this idea of touring Paris. Cat woman on the other hand represents sexiness with is another main component to this advertisements feeling, which is why her well known character and qualities have been appropriated for this ad, and represented by the…
The CoverGirl ad from March 2012 includes a picture of Queen Latifah in a grayish background with her green eye shadow. Queen Latifah has small brown eyes with long curly black eyelashes. She has a beautiful big smile with shiny white teeth. Queen Latifah also has a lovely pair of small gold round dangling earrings in her ears. The word “CoverGirl” is written in big bold green latter across her forehead, all to improve her appearance. Queen Latifah is written in small green letters underneath in the right hand corner. The photo shot is from her head to her shoulders, just enough for her viewers to focus on CoverGirls’s product. Queen Latifah appears to be wearing an olive green shirt, the same color as CoverGirl’s product, with her hair pulled back into a long pony tail. The advertisement effectively uses logos, ethos, and pathos to convince the viewers to buy CoverGirl products.…
We live in a country where television and advertisement is designed to entice people into always wanting more than what they already have. This enticement is achieved by feeding into the human desire for happiness. Advertisers create persuasive campaigns that inundate the public with images of societies narrow interpretation of success and beauty. These images are then presented as a precondition to the happiness that human beings are searching for. When a person’s reality does not match this narrow image, the message sent through television and advertisements is that in order to be content people need to find a way to acquire it. As a result we live in a society where people are continuously longing for a happiness that can only be achieved through things that are fleeting and external, which creates feelings of discontentment…
They take the sexualization of women to a different level. In this particular advertisement they have the woman in a powerful role. This ad is shown in gray scale coloring. The background shows very ornate detailing on the walls. Heavy encrusted molding outlines the flower detailing. The intricate detailing of the flowers travels all the way up the wall to the ceiling. There is a black fireplace with a think mantle. The model is standing on top of the mantle. She’s grasping the wall with one hand. In the other hand her arm is bent at the elbow. She’s holding a short black leather whip in her hand. The braided portion is draped behind her shoulders. The fall is hanging down next to her long hair by her shoulder. Her long blonde hair is pulled tightly into a high ponytail. A black wrap is placed around the hair to make it stand very tall. Her ponytail is hanging all to one side and it hangs just below her shoulder. She is dressed fully in a black leather pant suit with a long zipper from her belly button to groin. She has a very slender body with the leather outfit hugging every aspect of her curves. There are spikes flanking both sides on her shoulders. Her long legs look even longer with the tall high heeled boots she’s wearing. There is a bottle of Dom Perignon adorned on the fireplace. A man is kneeling in front of the fireplace looking up at her. He is shirtless and appears to be bound…
Victoria’s Secret has several ads on television and in magazines that are most likely to bring attention to women. This particular ad contains an image of a women’s arm, her hand in a seductive position while holding a red bra in her fingers looking like she is about to drop it on the ground. The background is dark pink around the edges and gets lighter as it gets closer to the bra. This effect draws the audience in so they focus on the bra in the center of the ad. In small letters under the bra, at the bottom of the ad, there is text that says, “dress your boyfriend’s floor”, under that there are big bolded letters that say “Victoria’s Secret” with the website www.victoriassecret.com below. The font is in black to contrast the pink and stand out to the viewer. (Victoria’s Secret)…
The CoverGirl ad from January 2014 includes a picture of Queen Latifah in a grayish background with her green eye shadow. Queen Latifah has small brown eyes with long curly black eyelashes. She has a beautiful big smile with shiny white teeth. Queen Latifah also has a lovely pair of small gold round dangling earrings in her ears. The word “CoverGirl” is written in big bold green letter across her forehead, all to improve her appearance. Queen Latifah is written in small green letters underneath in the right hand corner. The photo shot is from her head to her shoulders, just enough for the viewers to focus on CoverGirl’s product. Queen Latifah appears to be wearing an olive green shirt, the same color as CoverGirl’s product, with her hair pulled back into a long ponytail. The advertisement effectively uses logos, ethos, and pathos to convince the viewers to buy CoverGirl products.…
Advertisements are part of our everyday lives. From the moment that we step outside we are surrounded by ads posted on billboards to transportation to even blimps or jets painting the sky with car insurance propaganda. In the article, “Advertising’s fifteen basic appeals” Jib Fowels explains that the goal of the advertiser is to convince the consumer through physiological and psychological levels. By doing so the advertisement would have to include one or two of the basic appeals Jib Fowels listed in his article. A few examples of these are the need to nurture, the need for sex, need for escape or need to affiliate. As I read through a Women Health magazine 3 out these 15 appeals stood out to me…
Advertising is the marketing of an idea in ways that encourages and persuades audiences to take some sort of action. In most cases, the action would be to buy a product or service while other are simply to raise awareness. Whatever the case may be, money is poured into advertising every day. Marketing agencies try various ways to convince people to buy their products using different persuasion techniques. After first examining an advertisement, one could analyze how each detail in the ad was specifically designed to affect its audience in a way that convinces them that they need what is being advertised. One would also be able to notice the values and important aspects of a culture through its advertisements. For example, a NyQuil ad from the popular American magazine, Cosmopolitan, shows different ad techniques and American values.…
Advertisers know that they cannot sell meaning and happiness, but they can illicit those feelings by advertising visions of what a “good life” should be through the selling of products, known as **image-based advertising**. Sut Jhally’s article, Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture, explains how image-based advertising has been so integrated into our way of thought and consumption that it is difficult to pinpoint when our most cherished values became tied into consumer culture (p 201). Advertisements have taken up so much of our public space and discourse, and now even our private with the advancement of technology, that we are constantly being shown what the vision of happiness is, and what we must buy to achieve a satisfying standard of…
One being that the three people depicted in this advertisement are all extremely good looking, and well dressed. Hinting to the fact that people who drink this liquor are of a high caliber. Secondly, the people in this advertisement are all middle-aged professionals, a designer, an architect and a demolition expert. All three of…
By far, the most popular and common motif displayed within perfume advertising is that of a female model. Although it can be argued that there are more perfumes and fragrances for women, amongst most brands, and therefore more adverts for female perfumes in general, the image of woman is exploited in perfume advertising, with female nakedness becoming increasingly more common, significantly more than the image of men. ‘The typical image of the sensuous women enticingly or definitely addressing the viewer continues to be repeatedly employed in contemporary advertising, assuming the form of an ‘agent provocateur’, whose main function in ads is that of eliciting the desired emotional response in the viewer’. With the rapid development of new…
Adbusters believes that the advertising industry overextends themselves to associate desire and identity with commodities. As a result, their objective is to combat the negative effects of advertising. The magazine aims to provoke anti-consumerism by recreating spoofs of advertising that are aesthetically pleasing and entertaining to raise awareness. Adbusters believes advertising are giving consumers false information and the public has no recourse to communicate the truths or opposite information.…
The sole woman is the dominant signifier represented in the advertisement. As a sign, she is made up of a collection of secondary signifiers: her tight fitted costume, swimming attire (goggles and cap) and the Rolex watch she is wearing. These physical items are strategically placed to address a particular target market. The colouring of the woman’s costume and cap match that of the watch she is wearing. The co-ordination of silver is important as it signifies affluence, prosperity and timelessness. These representations accompany the positional signifiers in the advertisement. The women’s stance suggests that she is above us; her eye level is clearly looking down at the addressee. This particular stance suggests power, accomplishment, and superiority. Through these sign systems, the reader is forced to associate the woman with a syntagm that represents other important, independent and successful womanly figures.…