How To Write An Essay On A Fishing Commercial

In this commercial a trout jumps out of the river to go over to the fishermen who has Doritos and tries to steal them. I chose this advertisement because I love fishing and I love Doritos. I looked at a lot of different advertisements on the internet and I couldn’t quite find one that had something to do with me. Once I really thought about what I loved I went ahead and looked up commercials to do with fishing. That’s then and how I found and chose this advertisement. My personal connection with fishing has to do with most of my childhood. Most weekends I would go fishing with my dad. It didn’t matter if I was four years old or eighteen years old my dad and I have always been fishing partners. We would go to the Sacramento River and go Salmon …show more content…
For example, the trout flopping out of the water and basically walking over to the fishermen is pretty unrealistic but that’s obvious to everyone. Next, I noticed some personification when the trout screamed back at the guy once screamed at first. Then, the second biggest thing that jumped out at me was the logos in the video. When the fish and man are screaming at each other the film shows worms in a bowl next to the fish. Now most fishermen would think that the fish would bite on nightcrawlers or melee worms. Well that would be the logic way of looking at it but the fish really wanted Doritos. Of course, the trout wanted Doritos because it was a Doritos commercial! So, just the fact that it showed the “fish bait” behind the fish while the trout was taking the fishermen’s back of Doritos I found very amusing. As a fan of fishing and a fan of Doritos I would consider myself part of the audience they are trying to reach out to. Even with all their aspects of rhetoric I did not find myself feeling swayed because I thought to myself if the fish normally eats worms and now eats Doritos, then why would I want to eat something a fish likes when they usually eat