Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Monday, January 25, 2016

#27 Data Elaboration




Category
Description
Visual
Color
Hue
Bright colors to make Ad exciting. 


Value
Dark colors for male and light colors for female. 


Saturation
Dark colors distinguish masculinity. Light colors distinguish femininity.

Light
Low contrast              
Couple looks older but low contrast hides the aging marks.

Space
Full
Figures cover most of the Ad.  Focus is on the people.

Angle
Low Angle
You slightly look up at the figures giving the Ad an uplifting feeling.

Implied Distance
Close-up
Close up of persons and bottles to draw the audience into the Ad.

Genre
Style
Sexism:  The woman is holding a Diet Pepsi indicating she is fat and needs to lose weight.
Type
Stroke Weight

The Come Alive quote is heavy on the important strokes of the letters.  Visible to the audience without a full stroke.

Style
Bold
Left script appears bold to draw attention to audience.

Family
Script
Left script is somewhat of a Mongolian Baiti. Right font is a Times New Roman.


Serif
Right script in serif. Common text for long writing.


Sans Serif
Left script in Sans Serif to distinguish letters and stand out more.

In this Ad, Pepsi is trying to sell its product to older people who may be trying to cut down on all the sugar intake.  The prominent selling point is the regular Pepsi and it is held by the man where the secondary selling point is the Diet Pepsi held by the woman.  Does this indicate that Pepsi is trying to sell their product to men more than women and is Pepsi suggesting that all women need to lose weight so we offer a diet drink for them?

4 comments:

  1. That is a well written and analyzed analysis. However what is this article saying specifically to women? Is it suggesting that all women need to drink less calories than men? I think this ad serves as a rather sexist argument that women shouldn't be able to enjoy the same drink as men because they need to keep their womanly figure. Then this will serve the idea that if a man sees a women drinking diet Pepsi, she is looking to slim down for the attraction of another man. Also it is serving to show the idea to elder people that this will bring their relationship "to life". Great job on your analysis!

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  2. "the official drink of todays generation" standard bandwagon argument, but also yields a sense of responsibility to anyone in 'todays generation' to drink Pepsi, because you are supposed to support your 'official drink'. This also creates a sense of legitimacy and authority for Pepsi over their competitors. The risk with this is that it may alienate some who identify as "rebels".

    They use three different logos, claiming ties to the artistic world. "see, we are artistic, we have THREE logos." artistic people like to make different drawings, so by making three we prove we are artistic, so you artistic people should drink Pepsi.

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  3. the text on the right side is suggesting that Pepsi makes the day fun and livens up your day. The people are wearing knit hats, the girl is wearing a sweater and the guy is wearing a heavy looking jacket. This means the weather cold, so i could be winter. When its cold you want to stay inside and bundle up but Pepsi is saying drink this and get out there! Stop hibernating and to do that drink a Pepsi.

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