In Documentaries, Directors often use modes of persuasion to convince the viewer of an idea. In the Salesman, the director uses the mode of Pathos to have the viewer experience emotions that wouldn’t typically be associated with a traveling salesman. Certain film techniques like the use of close up shots help create this emotional appeal. Without emotions, this film would be a boring film about traveling salesman. I think the empathy evoked by the director is critical in staying true to the observational mode and creating a very real “everyday life” picture.
Modes of Persuasion are important in any kind of speech, writing or film where you want to inform and convince the audience of an idea. There are 3 main modes, Ethos, Pathos and Logos. We will …show more content…
I will focus on the specific car scene when he is in Florida driving through the unfamiliar neighborhood. One of the main ideas of observational documentaries is that the “the presence of the camera was soon taken for granted by the subjects - ignored mostly, sometimes forgotten altogether” (Mclane, 229). This is the idea that over time people will stop presenting their “Social Act” that we all present to society every day and especially in front of the cameras. In other documentaries this technique was shown to function “best if something important was happening to their subjects - if they were involved in an activity demanding their full attention and evoking a certain behavior” (Mclane, 229). I think that by having to drive and navigate in a place that he is unfamiliar with, our subject then starts to let down his guard. The “demand” of having to navigate and drive causes him to be in his most natural state with little or no “social act.” We can really see his true emotions in this scene. His anxiety lends itself to us and we can almost feel the weight on his shoulders of importance to make a sale that
Modes of Persuasion are important in any kind of speech, writing or film where you want to inform and convince the audience of an idea. There are 3 main modes, Ethos, Pathos and Logos. We will …show more content…
I will focus on the specific car scene when he is in Florida driving through the unfamiliar neighborhood. One of the main ideas of observational documentaries is that the “the presence of the camera was soon taken for granted by the subjects - ignored mostly, sometimes forgotten altogether” (Mclane, 229). This is the idea that over time people will stop presenting their “Social Act” that we all present to society every day and especially in front of the cameras. In other documentaries this technique was shown to function “best if something important was happening to their subjects - if they were involved in an activity demanding their full attention and evoking a certain behavior” (Mclane, 229). I think that by having to drive and navigate in a place that he is unfamiliar with, our subject then starts to let down his guard. The “demand” of having to navigate and drive causes him to be in his most natural state with little or no “social act.” We can really see his true emotions in this scene. His anxiety lends itself to us and we can almost feel the weight on his shoulders of importance to make a sale that