Journal 11

I knew my anti-ad idea from the very beginning. I thought that at first it would be hard, but it proved otherwise. It was actually really easy to make. It was time consuming, but nothing was actually hard about it. I think that the most fun part was making the ad. Just because i really love working on Photoshop and i'm pretty good with it, so its always a good time. As far as the group goes, putting our ads together was actually really easy. We just kinda put them in the magazine and that was that.

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Honestly, I didn't know how to navigate the adbusters site or where I was supposed to be looking, so i was nervous when trying to figure out what an anti-ad was, much less how to do one. The two ads i decided to pick from were for McDonalds and the Acia berry diet. The McDonalds one just seemed easier to do, so i chose that one. I preferred thinking up the idea to creating the actual ad because I'm not that great at creating pictures, so no matter how good it seems in my head, i have a difficult time translating that to an actual physical product. Creating this ad wasn't harder than I expected, but the quality of some of the other ads makes me feel like i need to make it look more professionally done. My group members ads I haven't really seen yet, but everyone has good ideas for what to do and I think they'll turn out nicely. Putting them together in a magazine wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be, we just didn't go about it the right way at first. We had to figure out the target audience for each ad, then come up with the average audience that all the ads would target. After that, we had to think of what type of magazine would appeal to that person and what magazines the ads would fit in. Analyzing the ads like that definately made it easier to come up with a magazine idea

Journal 11

The development of my anti ad was not to difficult. The hardest part was not creating a concept but creating the hard copy of the ad. Finding pictures that would work with my anti ad were not easy to come by at all. However, once I came across them I let me creative side have a go at creating the ad and I was done before I knew it.
As for our group project I was not able to see everyones ads due to going out of town. The magazine part though was not too difficult. It did not take long to come up with the idea of our magazine or the set up of cover and table of contents. I hope the rest of the project runs as smooth as it started out to be.

Journal 11

It didn't take me long to think of an advertisement to make an anti-ad for. Basically, I tried to think an ad, or company, that is so ridiculous and over the top with its promises and false presentations. I think if you looked up ‘over the top and ridiculous’ in the dictionary, a picture of a TrimSpa ad would be in the definition. With body image so important in our society right now, this anti-ad is appropriate for the issues young women are being challenged with. It was fun to make an anti-ad that resembled the original ad but replaced the pictures and words with ones that negate the words in the original.

For the group project, it wasn’t too hard to develop an appropriate magazine to incorporate all of the anti-ads but for one we had to manipulate an article into making it work.

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My experience in creating my anti ad was kinda easy. I found a really good advertisement in a magazine and only had to use photoshop to change it. I went to the library and used photoshop. It came easy to me because I had used it in high school in my yearbook class. But mine is still an amatuer advertisement. After looking around I thought it was going to be hard to make up an ad but it was actually very easy once I found a good advertisement. I thought my group memebers ads were also very good. They were very creative in what they came up with for their anti advertisements. I also feel that it will be pretty easy to put the ads together in one magazine because there is always a magazine that features what we have to work with, liquor, beer and a lotion ad.

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I didn't find it that difficult to create an anti-ad. At first it seemed pretty easy and I feel that it was an interesting assignment, but when it came time for me to actually create my ad, it was harder than I imagined. After looking at adbusters.org, it gave me a better idea of what we were exactly supposed to do. Then, it was challenging not to use the same sort of ad or idea. I didn't know what kind of ad I wanted to do at first, and I chose my ad randomly. I knew that I didn't want to do an ad that everybody was thinking about doing. I enjoyed thinking up the idea more than actually creating my ad, because I couldn't really put my ideas together the way I wanted to. My group members ads are completely different from mine, but I don't think it's going to a problem putting the magazine together because many magazines have different ads in them, to sell different products. All in all, I think this was a good assignment, it was very unique and interesting creating my own ad, and discussing the pros and cons of my regular ad. I think that our group will have a fun time creating the magazine, and our plans are looking pretty good.

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I found creating my own anti ad to be very difficult. Ultimately, my lofty designs for an anti ad are more complicated than my photoshop ability allows. I'm planning on going old school,and drawing and pasting my thoughts to create a work of art. I am thoroughly inspired by the album cover of "Revolver" and hope to create my own masterpiece. I chose to parody alcohol because of its relevance to our lives here at FSU. My group members were just as creative and will surely be much more artistic than me. Finding a fit for lotion and alcohol will be fun. I first thought of young women, but the other two pictured an old woman tabloids. I had a great time thinking up my anti ad but have been disappointed with my attempts creating the actual ad. Hopefully i will have an artistic breakthrough over thanksgiving break.

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I was really hesitant at first when we heard we were going to make an anit-ad. After looking at ad-busters in and out of class I started to feel a little bit better about it though. Looking through the ads, I thought about doing something on fast food, or environtmental issues. There were lots of options, but I ended up not going with either of those topics. Thinking of which ad I was going to use was hard, but not as hard as actually making it. It was fun trying to figure out photoshop and working with new things on the computer, but it did become very frustrating. It was a lot harder than I expected. Even though I had a general idea in my head, applying it to paper was hard. When our group got together, our anti ads were very different. I thought it was a little difficult coming up with a common foundation for our magazine. My group members had good ads, ours just weren't that compatable. We worked with it though to make an awesome magazine.

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I'm pretty sure that Hemingway has got me in such a state of confusion. The main characters of this short story are the American and what i am guessing is his girlfriend or wife. I think this because he is constantly telling her that he loves her. These two people are going to Madrid for a reason that i know not. I get the impression that it is something that the girl is confused about and is not sure if she wants to go through with. I'll be honest David told me in class that this story was about abortion but i do not see that at all after reading this. The atmosphere to me is if they were in the middle of a desert. The hills all around them suggest that they are somewhere in the middle of nowhere. When i was picturing this story in my head, i was picturing this old school railway in the middle of nowhere with a fat ugly bartender serving them drinks that will make them forget where it is that they are going. The one part of this that i am curious about is the fact that the American says that he will be happy with what she does. He tells he this over and over. I am just really confused by this story. I've read it three times now and i am still just bewildered. I cannot pull any sort of meaning out of this. I feel like the hills looking like elephants has some deeper meaning but i have no idea what.

Journal 11

In Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” the characters in the story sound like a boyfriend and a girlfriend. It’s actually very confusing because you don’t know what they’re talking about the whole time. The characters are in like a bar atmosphere discussing their problem that no one knows. The setting makes it feel like they are in the middle of like a little town in Europe with beautiful hills in the background. I really don’t know how the hills are like White Elephants though. I feel that that is a very weird description to use to describe hills and have no idea what the hills are supposed to look like.