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Delta Airlines Television Advertisement Analysis
Forming a Picture of the World Paper
Jesse Sebestyen
09/24/2014
Critical Thinking SU14
Instructor: Bill Harris

Forming a Picture of the World Paper
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Table of Contents…………………………………………………………..2
Delta Airlines Television Advertisement Description………3
Analyzing the Commercial………………………………………………4
Final Thoughts………………………………………………………………..5
References………………………………………………………………………6

Forming a Picture of the World Paper
Delta Airlines Television Advertisement Description In this assignment I chose to critically analyze a television commercial, and within this assignment I thought that it took me a while to find the one commercial to write a three-page essay and prepare for a presentation to peers. This was because there are so many non-sense commercials on many different channels, which it …show more content…
The narrator comes on and says, “Travelling can feel like one big mystery - You’re never quite sure what is coming your way - But when you’ve got an entire company - who knows that the fewest cancellations - and the most on time flights - are nothing - if we can’t get your things there too - It’s no wonder more people choose Delta over any other flight.”
This commercial was found on SCI FI channel while flipping through channels. When looking up the commercial on the internet I had found a website that shows recently aired commercials. This site is called http://www.ispot.tv/. This website shows the commercial I chose and also shows more info about the commercial and about the company. The webpage showed that the TV ad was also recently aired on Travel, DIY, and MLB network. With this data collected I presume that the target audience is strictly adults. The main reason for this is because kids normally wouldn’t have any interest or funds for buying plane tickets. Also people who travel frequently would be the intended audience that would pay more attention to the
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