Analysis Of Perrier's Thirst For The Extraordinaire

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Floor my visual project I chose to recreate a commercial based on satire and comedy, to add what was lacking in the commercial thirst for the extraordinaire I added logos and a ethos. I chose this to give that commercial more credibility. My goal is to prove that it is simple to add logos and ethos. The original commercial involved little to no logic so I added the content of the water and add for ethos I added a quality statement, which in turn would make the commercial much more effective. When watching Perrier’s Thirst for the Extraordinaire, several rhetorical elements are missing which could make the commercial much more effective in terms of sales; Additionally, viewing through Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis lens it uses speaks to

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