Recently, our class did a project where we created a series of advertisements. We each made one advertisement for a natural landscape, in my case Depoe Bay, Oregon, one advertisement for a business, for which I advertised a store called Cabela’s, and finally, one advertisement to advocate something, the thing I chose to advocate being lessening noise pollution.

The first ad that I created was the original draft of my Depoe Bay ad. However, upon going to get critique, I was immediately told that it had too much text. I revised the text and changed the layout of the ad, and when I started working on my other two ads, I put far less text in them. I focused more on the visuals for the ads, using my own pictures, and editing them with an app called Snapseed, and the photo editor built into the Photos app.

However, neither of these apps let me go from having photos to having advertisements. To add text, change the layout of my ads and add the clip art in my advocacy ad, I used a whole different series of apps, including Canva, Comic Life and Layout.

If I were going to do this project again, I would probably spend my time more evenly, instead of focusing mostly on one ad, and I would probably have done more background research. Also, I would likely have gotten more help critiquing and revising my ads.