Monday, March 28, 2011

Advertising 3765 Mon-Wed

 Wednesday

The commercials were returned with instructor feedback.

We went through the rest of the graphics file format .ppt. The instructor explained that the material is directly applicable to what students need to know to do their TV commercial.

At the end of class, she showed the Starbucks commercial as an example.

Superbowl grades were given to most students. A few remain and will be given back at the next class.

To Do for Next Class:

Work on commercial

Obtain photo imaging software.

Monday
Students turned in their 30-second ads and the instructor will read them and give them back on Wed.

The instructor asked about the coupon ads and she reminded students of the deadline.

We began work on graphic file formats.The instructor showed a .ppt and we worked our way through about 40% of it. We will continue on Wed. The .ppt is linked at right.

She asked students to check their computers for photo imaging software. If students do not have any photo imaging software, they can obtain some free software by looking through the following lists:

Recent link listing around 8 different free graphics/imaging programs.

Here's a 2009 link.

 This link is older (2008) and some of the software may not be available.


To Do For Next Class:

Obtain necessary software (check CNET), try above suggestions.