Araştırma Makalesi

Movie Trailers as a Marketing Communication Tool

Cilt: 22 Sayı: 4 4 Ağustos 2025
PDF İndir
EN TR

Movie Trailers as a Marketing Communication Tool

Abstract

Marketing communication activities are generally used to reach consumers and convince them to purchase a product. These activities vary and diversify depending on the type of product. Trailers are one of the important marketing communication activities prepared for movies in the movie industry. In this study, the trailers of the five most-watched movies in Turkey over the past 10 years were analysed to examine how Aristotle's rhetorical elements of ethos, pathos, and logos are applied in movie marketing. Using a scene-based coding method, each trailer was divided into specific sections, and the persuasive techniques applied to each scene were systematically evaluated. Ethos was constructed using cultural representation, biographical reality, and the use of social figures; pathos was constructed using music, humour, universal emotions, and visual narration; and logos was constructed using a consistent plot and clear cause-and-effect relationships. The sample was limited to Turkey in order to enable a consistent analysis of local rhetoric and marketing practices. The findings show that emotional, cultural and logical elements are intertwined in box office successful movie trailers and marketing communication strategies are designed in this direction.

Keywords

Marketing communication , Trailer , Ethos , Pathos , Logos , Movie marketing

Kaynakça

  1. Ahmad, I. S., Bakar, A. A., & Yaakub, M. R. (2020). Movie revenue prediction based on purchase intention mining using YouTube trailer reviews. Information Processing & Management, 57(5), 102278.
  2. Aristoteles. (1995). Retorik (M. H. Doğan, Çev.). Payel Yayınları.
  3. Baba, Ç. (2018). Retorikte ethos’un yeri. Felsefe Dünyası Dergisi, (67), 203-219.
  4. Bahçecioğlu, E. H. (2021). Retoriğin temel unsurları olan ethos-pathos-logos perspektifinden ikna sanatının kullanılışı: Müge Anlı örneği. Aksaray İletişim Dergisi, 3(1), 16-42.
  5. Brown, S., Hackley, C., Hunt, S. D., Marsh, C., O’Shaughnessy, N., Phillips, B. J., ... & Nilsson, T. (2018). Marketing (as) rhetoric: Paradigms, provocations, and perspectives. Journal of Marketing Management, 34(15-16), 1336-1378.
  6. Borchers, T., & Hundley, H. (2018). Rhetorical theory: An introduction. Waveland Press.
  7. Burke, K. (1969). A rhetoric of motives. University of California Press.
  8. Cabral, L., & Natividad, G. (2016). Box‐office demand: The importance of being# 1. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 64(2), 277-294.
  9. Cevizci, A. (1995). Felsefe sözlüğü (6. bs.). Paradigma Yayıncılık.
  10. Çodur, G. (2018). Siyasal reklam retoriği: 2014 Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimleri: Sosyal medyada yayınlanan reklamların içerik analizi. İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, 2022(47), 547-565.

Kaynak Göster

APA
Saygın, E. P. (2025). Movie Trailers as a Marketing Communication Tool. OPUS Journal of Society Research, 22(4), 606-626. https://doi.org/10.26466/opusjsr.1693564