DAFORREESTI
Visual Techniques
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Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
200

This is when words or phrases are used several times for emphasis

What is repetition?

200

Term for when colors are used symbolically to suggest certain ideas to the audience or to provoke certain emotions

What is color psychology?

200

This is the use of someone's point of view

What is opinion?

200

A company must consider the values, desires, fears, and needs of this group in promoting their product

What is the audience (or target audience)?

200

An animal rights group designs a poster with a homeless puppy looking at the viewer with big sad watery eyes

What is pathos?

400

This is when you bring in the point of view of someone who is an expert in their field

What is an expert opinion?

400

This is the part of an image that the eye is naturally drawn to

What is the focal point?

400

This is the use of vocabulary that's intended to create particular emotions within the audience

What is emotive language?

400

What the advertiser hopes to achieve through their advertisement (i.e. to inform? to remind? to persuade?)

What is the purpose?

400

Michael Jordan wears the new Nikes in a commercial in which he slams a dunk and tells the viewer, "Be like me. Wear Nike."

What is ethos?

600

This is a question posed to an audience to make a point but which doesn't require (or even expect) an answer

What is a rhetorical question?

600

This is the use of simplicity and lots of empty (or negative) space to make the main subject pop out

What is minimalism?

600

These are facts with numbers (such as percentages or survey data)

What are statistics?

600

What is happening within society or the world (the cultural "zeitgeist") that could impact how the viewer understands or receives a particular advertisement

What is the context?

600

A shampoo commercial points out that the ingredients in their product are 75% less damaging to your hair and skin than that of their competitors

What is logos?

800

This is a brief story or experience that can help illustrate a point

What is an anecdote?

800

When a company intentionally forms a connection between their product and a particular person or event

What is association?

800

This is when key information is memorably presented in groups of three

What are triples?

800

What the audience actually takes away from an advertisement (which could be both explicit, the denotation, and implicit, the connotation)

What is the message?

800

The reviews on a travel website contain anecdotes from the trips of previous travellers who purchased vacation packages through their site

What is ethos?

1000

This technique is a command telling people what to do

What are imperatives?

1000

The idea that subjects placed along imaginary intersecting lines in an image will draw the viewer's attention more strongly and make for a more aesthetically pleasing picture

What is the rule of thirds?

1000

This is when you use pronouns, such a "you," to make your audience feel included in what you are saying

What is direct address?

1000

The creative decisions the advertiser makes to promote their product and influence the viewer to buy their product

What is the technique (or authorial choices)?

1000

A safe and dependable car brand makes a commercial in which a rival luxury sports car crashes and is smashed to bits while their own car crashes and the test dummies are kept safe inside. A subtitle reads: "Zero fatalities in our vehicles over the last year." (two techniques)

What are pathos and logos?