Visual Rhetoric – The art of persuasion

This is also used in images and videos

Goals

  • Convince the audience
  • Communicate a message

First always the persuasion

3 rhetoric strategies

  • Pathos – emotional appeal
  • Logos – Facts and information (logic and reason)
  • Ethos – Credibility (trust)

Pathos

The most potent tool to use from a human being perspective.

Emotional response. Sympathy and empathy.

Doesn’t want you to look at all the facts.

Makes you feel guilty


Logos

Makes you believe you are making the decision, Planting the facts.

Information, Information, Information …


Ethos

Celebrity endorsements

Doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/sep/22/robert-downey-jnr-offers-up-a-naked-mark-ruffalo-to-enocurage-americans-to-vote-video


 Find 3 adverts (moving of still)

One showing pathos, ethos, logos

Explain why