Final Poster

Campaign Ad Artist Statement

The style elements that I took from the example campaign ads were mainly simplicity and minimalism, which I thought would help deliver the message easily. My ads were pretty similar to the example ads, but mine had much more to look at. The tools I used to create the ads were mainly the layer, quick select and eraser tools in Photoshop, the alpha tool in Keynote, and I used pictures that were already fit to the idea for my ads, because the pictures were plain with only two or three colors. That made it easier to use the alpha and magic wand tools, and create a message around the images of them. I used the alpha tool to create a kind of “fading” effect on the white ad. Although, I also had to take a snapshot of it in order to make it look just the way I wanted it to. For the black ad, I didn’t have to use many techniques in the process of making it, other than finding a few pictures on google. For the last one, I used the alpha tool in Keynote to cut Matthew Bellamy out of his background because I didn’t have photoshop. This one took the longest because it takes a very long time to get something to look good using the alpha tool. Most of the political ads we looked at in class used the american flag and it’s colors, so I figured I’d use the same thing on this one.

"Muse For President" Propaganda

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What is a Blog?

I never really thought that blogs were a revolutionary or groundbreaking new invention, but after this reading I started to think more about what blogs are. This article describes a blog as “personally published documents on the web, with attribution and date, collected in a single place, generally published with a static structure to facilitate incoming links from other sources, and updated with some regularity and frequency from every few days to several times daily.” My only real experience with blogging is Myspace blogging, where people I am friends with on Myspace post blogs with often extremely little significance to me. I have never been the one to post these blogs before, because I never saw a point to sharing with everyone how exactly I feel at the moment, or how may day was, etc. because I always have real people I can interact with right in front of me who I can tell that to.