Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Commercial Outline

Purpose: To motivate, or perhaps lure, the audience into wanting to save the animals
 
   How?

  • Sympathy
    • Animals
      • Cute & fluffy, suffering
      • big puppy right away 
      • staring directly at camera
    • Camera
      • slowly zoom in to animals
      • slow, emotional transitions
    • Script
      • "Every day innocent animals are abused, beaten, and neglected"
      • "They're crying out for help"
      • Emotional diction
    • Music
      • played right away
      • Sarah Mclachlan's song "In the arms of an angel"
      • music appeals to emotions
      • telling you you could be the "angel" for the animals
  • Pressure
    • Caption
      • "Call now to join the ASPCA" in text
      • Phone number on bottom throughout
      • web url on bottom also
    • Dialogue
      • "$18 a month, only 60 cents a day"
      • "Right now, there is an animal who needs you"
    • Time Limit/Gift
      • "Call or join within the next 30 minutes and you'll receive this welcome gift"
      • 'free' t-shirt, wristband, and picture of animal
     Effective?
  • Successful in motivating/luring people (purpose)
  • Successful in effectiveness (at first)
    • When I was younger and this first came out, my sisters and I would almost be in tears after this commercial, wanting to help the dogs
    • Began to be overplayed, became cliche, still achieved purpose, but lost effectiveness for the company over time

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