Sealed With A Kiss

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Victoire Absinthe flipped through the pages of her magazine while waiting for dinner to be served. The blonde had finally left her, leaving behind a copy of some local magazine. She settled on the glossy image of an advertisement selling lipstick. Victoire smiled to herself- the ad spoke to her more than she thought it would, and that in and of itself was funny. She actually related to something. That was a first.

 

This design assignment was about creating an advertisement with a cartoon. I chose a character from the movie Atlantis to advertise a bright pink lipstick.  Considering Vignelli’s advice about simplicity, I decided not to include a picture of the product at all, assuming that the swak would be enough, and the fact that I used the word, “kiss” in the advertisement itself. Like in my other design assignments, I have kept the number of elements in the image to a minimum, and kept the font simple. It took me a little while to decide where to put the text, though. Which is surprising. I thought it would be super easy to find a good space for it, but apparently not! That’s ok, though. I have a bit more appreciation for it now.

Advertisement Using A Cartoon Character

This assignment (3 points) was creating advertisement using a cartoon character. First cartoon I came up with was Spongebob advertising a sponge. But I think is to obvious so I changed cartoon character. I came up with Spiderman advertising a bug spray. It would be great to show that the bug spray that Spiderman is advertising would not miss any bugs that you try to catch. I put the Spiderman as background and put a bug spray in his right hand and put some spider webs on to it.

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I put a quote from Spiderman at the corner that would help the viewers to have some belief onto the product that he is advertising.

Advertisement with a cartoon character

This assignment is worth 3 stars.  I had to do one for my character so I did Grape Nehi, it is Isabelle McIntosh’s favorite drink.  I chose Betty Boop to advertise it because she seemed like a popular character at that time.  I used PowerPoint to create this, I had fun doing it.    Here is my advertisement.

 

Betty Boop

Of Bananas and Minions

For my first Design Assignment I chose to use a cartoon character (3 stars) to help advertise a product. This assignment because I thought it would be fun. In my head I’m always thinking of things like this, taking ideas and adding them into completely separate ones. One night, while studying, my roommate and I even remixed every song we heard on the radio to include McDonald’s chicken nuggets.

In using this picture to represent add, my first thought was of the Facebook stickers used in the messaging system there. This picture is one of the stickers and I’ve frequently found it to be quite amusing. I was very happy when I searched for this image and was able to find it and many others on Google. A bunch of my friends, and myself, love the movie “Despicable Me” which these minions come from, and I thought it would be a great way to include one of my movie interests in this class. Now that I’m thinking about this movie in relationship to this class, I’m beginning to realize the noir aspects that were included, specifically Gru’s house, in this movie.

A Look and Description of Gru’s House:

Anyway, I think I need to stay on track…

After finding this image on Google, I then set it as the background for a PowerPoint presentation and used the text box to add words overtop. I know it’s not the best way to edit these images but it’s an easy way that works for me! I then screenshotted it and added it to Flickr to embed here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130755638@N08/16341365966/

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Part #5: Finale and Weekly Summary 15

*I forgot that I had to do all of this in one single blog post and by the time I finished my third part of my project, it was too late. So I’m going to combine my finale (Part 5) and my weekly summary into this post, as well as the previous four parts I did in order.*

The story starts out with Popeye and him promoting his favorite thing ever, spinach. Spinach gives him the power and strength to overwhelm his enemies and makes him unstoppable. He actually runs a worldwide spinach company that provides for every nation on Earth.

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Popeye’s fame and power would not last forever though. Spinach supplies would slowly decrease and Popeye would not notice it until it was too late. By the time Popeye got around and trying to address the issue, farmers around the world have had enough with consumers pushing them to their outmost limits, especially Popeye. The farmers stated that  the constant demand and persistence and their reasonings of not being able to produce enough was their reason in protesting. Violence is a very possible outcome if demands are not met. Arguably, it could be said that Popeye was accounted for the majority percentage of consumption of overall spinach in the world. Global news outlets have already begun reporting this situation, such as CNN.

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Even with all of this going on, Popeye refused to resort to any form of action in an attempt to clear his name or to fix the many problems that are occurring. Granted, he’s not the world police, but at least he could have made some form of effort to help ease a lot of the tensions going on around him. As a result of this, all of the world’s leaders (or those present at the recent United Nations’ conference), agreed to file a lawsuit against Popeye himself. The Supreme Court of the United Nations deemed Popeye’s lack of actions during a critical period astonishing and unacceptable.

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They awaited several months for a response from Popeye until many leaders agreed that enough was enough. They all issued bounties and wanted posters throughout their respective countries, hoping to capture Popeye and end his greedy lifestyle. The lack of a response fueled this decision and enraged many.

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Regarding Popeye’s future after these terrible moments, it was rumored he was hiding in his secret hideout somewhere in jungles Brazil, along with the rest of the spinach that was left. Turns out, he had built a underground complex so that only him and some of his most trusted advisors only knew the true location and had access too. He had arrived and has lived there right being filed an injunction against, probably deeming that he doesn’t care about what other people think. Once his spinach supply was all gone, he went crazy and into a deep depression and betrayed all his close advisors by poisoning them.


As for final weekly summary of this semester, there was a lot going on this year. It had its ups and downs, this class, and honestly, I learned a great deal of material and techniques each week. This class has made me much more confident in using lots of different software and applications to help me create various digital assignments. I was familiar with some of the techniques and technology that I needed to use for this class, but I did not know I would become this comfortable with them by semester’s end.

This particular week was actually pretty fun, and it has been while where a week was enjoyable to say the least. The only tough part about this week’s project was coming up with ideas, but other than that, everything else was pretty simple and fun. I basically had to choose any type of character I thought was significant enough for this particular assignment, and I ended up choosing Popeye the Sailor and his beginning and demise through his favorite food, spinach.

My final thoughts regarding this class are that I really enjoyed the majority of the semester but at times I was just so annoyed and frustrated with some assignments because of my unfamiliarity and toughness of specific assignments. However, I managed to pull myself through these obstacles, and even though I didn’t get grades I wanted, I was happy with myself that I was able to create something other than nothing, and I learned a lot about certain applications such as iMovie, using Pixlr, etc. This class at times made me stressed because I was already taking four math classes on top of the workload for this class and being a math major while taking this was sometimes overwhelming to say the least. Other than that however, I enjoyed this class and I am grateful I learned all these techniques that I can possibly use in my near future.


I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to post my blog links or not, since I originally did separate posts for each part of my story. However, I thought it would be safe to just link my posts because they also explain how I created and did my media pieces and I felt like it would be best if I shared my techniques and strategies I used. Since I’m so used to explaining how I did my assignments throughout this semester, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to share the posts I created explaining said explanations on my work.

Part One – Promotion Poster

Part Two – Edited website using X-Ray Goggles

Part Three – My creation of an injunction letter

Part Four – Wanted Poster

I also tagged the appropriate assignments I used in those parts, but I’ll go ahead and tag them here as well.

 

Part #1: The Promoter

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For my final project, I decided to choose Popeye the Sailor as my central character. I used the “Advertisement Using a Cartoon Character” assignment for this post. Since I am using Popeye, I thought it would be fitting for him promoting/endorsing his favorite food, spinach.

I started off by finding two pictures, one of Popeye, and the other being a simple bag of spinach. I tried my best to neatly remove the can of spinach in the default Popeye picture and replaced it with the bag of spinach. This was very frustrating because my hands are not that study and I did not have a mouse with me, so I had to trace the edges using my trackpad. What a pain that was. I then implemented a text box into the finished edited photo. I did all my work through a website called Pixlr.

Again, it was difficult removing the little things that were noticeable in the pic, such as whitespace, etc. The picture above is my best effort I could conjure. I also could not figure out how to resize the bag of spinach so that it would fit in Popeye’s hands and muscles, so that is why there is a lot of yellow space in between, and I apologize for that.

Here is my workspace:

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Part One: The Endorser

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This is the first part of my final project!

To begin my tale on Winnie the Pooh, I decided to be creative and make my own assignment to represent the narrative. For this design assignment, I came up with an Advertisement Using a Cartoon Character. Since the overall theme of my project follows Winnie the Pooh, I though it would be fitting to have him endorse honey, which he well known as being a fan of.

I started out the assignment by using an existing ad for Roof Top honey and erased a few of the unnecessary images so that it was a relatively clean looking background. I then found a large image of Winnie that really seemed to match with the idea I was going for. Lastly, I went to fontmeme.com and found a really good looking font originally used by the fashion company Hermes. Since this is an advertisement, I came up with a clever quip to reel in the customers.

Editing the image with pixlr:

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As I mentioned I also submitted this as a new design assignment and think its a fun way to incorporate different themes with different characters.

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Advertisement Using a Cartoon Character

Have you ever thought a particular cartoon character would make a great advertiser? Well here’s your chance. Take an existing product or even a regular item and have a cartoon character do their best salesman impression.