Speech Outline

PURPOSE&ADUIENCE

The purpose of this video is to get people to know their brand name, and the ultimately purchase their products. They try to appeal to the funny and sex aspects of our lives to get us interested in the commercial, so we will actually watch it. The audience this video is intended for is anyone who cleans, more specifically young adults and adults.

FUNNY MOMENTS

They appeal to our humor because throughout the video the woman seems to be turned on by Mr. Clean as he dances around while cleaning, squeezes water out of the Magic Eraser, once he’s done cleaning he notices her dancing and calls her name which then brings her back to reality that it’s not Mr. Clean and she tackles him onto the couch kissing him. This is funny because stereotypically, women clean more than men, so “You gotta love a man who cleans” appeals to us in that sense.

SEXUAL MOMENTS

While watching the video you can see that Mr. Clean is attempting to seduce the woman while cleaning. You can tell by watching the woman’s facial expressions that she is enjoying what the man is doing by cleaning and in the end tackles him and makes out with him on the couch. The song played also brings a sexual aspect to the video, the song was never released but the lyrics say “Got what you want, got what you need. Be your dreamboat, be your fantasy. I’ll be your. I’ll, I’ll, I’ll be your ecstasy.”

UNEXPECTED ENDING

You could tell that she was getting turned on by the seducing done by Mr. Clean while he was cleaning, but it was unexpected that Mr. Clean was just an illusion and it was just an ordinary man. It was also slightly unexpected that she ended up tackling him on the couch, kissing him.

EFFECTIVE&INEFFECTIVE

The first time I watched this commercial I though it was comical. I think it has a lot of funny aspects, including that they made the commercial sexual. My assessment of the video didn’t change after I viewed it more. My assessment made me notice some things that I didn’t notice the first time watching it, such as the woman’s facial expressions. The purpose of the video is to get people to know their brand name, and then ultimately purchase their products. I don’t think this commercial is effective to get someone to buy Mr. Clean products, but I do think that it is effective when trying to get people to know their brand name.  I know that Mr. Clean products work, so this helps me in wanting to purchase their products, but if someone else is new to their brand, chances are this commercial won’t make them want to go buy anything from Mr. Clean.