Pitch Reflection

The main appeal that was used in the speech was the rational or logical appeal, focusing on the consumer's need for the practicality and functionality of the product. The speech had an explanation of why having a T.V advertisement as the form or medium of advertisement was necessary mentioning its functionality and its exposure to a bigger number of the target audience. Some persuasive techniques used in this speech could be described as the cause vs correlation technique by explaining that the timing of advertisement would be best in the middle of the news as people are often focused and fully aware of its happening in the world, therefore the people would be in a state of awareness when being shown the ad just after the news. This would be effective in persuasion as it tricks the listener by intentionally confusing correlation with causation. The audience and context influenced my approach on this pitch as it made me create persuasive techniques in order to persuade (in this context) a company in advertising their product, had the audience been difference, my text type and context would have changed to fit the needs of the audience and purpose. Things I would do differently in another presentation would be adding in more persuasive techniques and express further more appeals. Some of these that could have been included would be an analogy and an ad hominem. The presentation itself could have been prepared better by adding in more slides showing the main topics and images to help adding in more of a persuasive outcome.