Ads, ads and more ads

Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Today's class was more about meeting with your group member and really focusing your topic to be clearer, and to ultimately get it approved by Jimmy. We started the class off by looking at some ads from magazines in which some were good and some were bad. We were able to really break them down and determine the concepts behind them and whether they were successful or not. This exercise helped me because I was able to really get an idea of what makes an ad a good ad. With advertisement it's all about grasping the readers attention. While flipping through a magazine people don't often stop and admire and read an advertisement unless it catches their attention and immediately draws them in. This is definitely harder than it sounds. It's easy to criticize the ads that we saw in Jimmy's examples but it will be very hard to come up with our own original, conceptually and aesthetically successful advertisement.

Attention!!

 When my partner Anna and I pitched our idea to Jimmy to our surprise he actually enjoyed our topic our biggest challenge will be coming up with con's for our topic and of course producing clever advertisement. Even though we have our own opinion of the subject we can not be bias when producing advertisements for  each side of the matter.