Bad ad ideas.

1st assignment is about converting one of the bad ads into something interesting and remembered. I have chosen this one as my choice.

I haven't chosen fonts yet, however I was thinking about interesting praises such as "kickass music store in California" or "CALIFORNIA's most wanted music store." I am also  thinking about music sheet as a background, but I have to see. 

Good Ad and Bad ads

I am now comparing between good ads and bad ads. First of all, these are examples of good ads.

Those ads clearly show objects that they try to sell. The AAA Roadside assistance ad shows a mechanic changing a battery, indicating that they provide battery change assistance. The Sea World ad symbolizes two turtles to advertise their new Turtle Reef attraction.

And these are bad ads:

In general, these ads are really generic to look. In the case of Redondo Fun Factory ad, fonts are too mundane and their colors are too pale giving them an old look. Second one, the Pleasure Island, can deceive the viewers by its title, giving them false impression that it is a travel agency. If it is a sex toy shop, then they should be explicit by displaying female models or any of object.

My objective for Ad Design 1.

So class has started on Aug 30, 2011. What I hope to learn from this class is how to design advertisement effectively. Indeed, I have a knack for making an ad and selling products. Unfortunately, I don't know how to choose layout for my ad and pursuade customers. So by working with Angela, I surely believe the positive outcome after taking the class.

I am so lazy to post a blog.

Nowadays, I am becoming so lazy and don't bother to post anything. How sad. I should be more energetic and enthusiastic, but my will don't folow. Ugggghhhh....

My portrait

Class decided to take my picture and animate it.

Good and Bad flash example

Good example (www.marcecko.com)

 I am impressed that Marc is such a design savvy. Whenever I move a mouse around the screen, the page moves along with the direction. Also when I click on one of the menus, the webpage collapses into small bricks and change to a new page.   I definitely recommend this site to people who have a vision problems, because the buttons are made of large and vivid pictures.

Bad example(www.lingscars.com)

I don't understand who designed the site. The animations are nothing notable, because they predominantly used Photoshop to create animations. What I mean is that, the artist choose an image and created a slide show, instead of putting more effort. In another case, one of the banners shows an animated sequence where three stooges are splattered with the paint. Again this is done with Photoshop in addition to Microsoft paint.

Multimedia Design statement.

Hello, everyone, I was not active on my blog for a long time. Well sorry about that. I was busy doing my other works. Anyways, this is my obejective for a new class, Multimedia Design. Throughout this course, I would like to learn various aspects of Macromedia Flash and integrate my knowledge to Web design. I have taken a Flash class before, but I didn't learn much. The problem was that the previous course had no detailed instruction and it made me hard to follow. By working with Angela again, I would like to learn how to properly create animation and improve my skills to land a job in near future.