ads that may be deemed offensive or are offensive

Sometimes published ads are borderline offensive or go beyond that line. I thought this ad was offensive to women because of the language they used and the implied meanings.

Honda Accord- The Cog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo

I really like this commercial due to its very difficult nature to produce. I did some background research on it and it mostly consists of non computer generated video. The only computer modified parts were things like high-lighting the water, zooming in, and stitching the 2 continuous 60 second clips as one. I like seeing simple things yet complicated to set up as advertisements.

Internet Ad

I stumbled upon an ad relating to our current project for the ad advertising direction class. I like how they make the speed relating to how cars hit bugs on the freeways but on the person's face. Coming up with a concept like this seems easy but is actually very difficult without being too conceptual or too literal.

Simple posters that are funny

Both these pictures are simple, funny, and have an idea behind them. However, the giraffe picture wouldn't be as funny without the text. The proposal picture doesn't even have descriptive text and makes sense. I see a lot of people making these motivational posters (giraffe) and even though they are funny sometimes, they don't have a meaning beyond that. The proposal one is simple yet communicates a meaning to it. I think being simple yet meaningful are good ways to communicate with people because most people today are too lazy to read long text paragraphs.

John Coy Guest Speaker GAUGE

John Coy's presentation was not as strong as the other speakers I have seen before. He did give a lot of information about building yourself to become great. The work he showed were interesting but not mind blowing. I guess it might be due to a generation difference. I was disappointed in how the people organizing the event could not get his presentation to load. However when I caught a glimpse of the 1.7~ GB file size of his power point file, I realized why the computers were having trouble. Aside from his presentation, I felt he seemed like an open guy to talk to and would not mind helping the younger generation if needed.

Product Placement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LFQIoc49ZM

Product placement is used in a lot of places, especially television and movies. I think sometimes too much product advertisement can be bad though, like in the movie Transformers. Almost every 5 minutes you see 1 or more product advertised somewhere in the scene. The car scenes are almost too obvious with the camera panning over the cars. If the clip was shown without any Transformers related material and shown with the product information it would pass off as a regular car commercial.

some interesting commericals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TKQWYUegXQ

Out of all the commercials shown here, I liked the shaving blade one where the match wouldn't light up and the Audi one. At first I didn't get why he would put the match in his mouth and why it wouldn't light up. But after the woman took it and lighted it up, it made sense and was pretty funny. The Audi one was really creative as it praised each different car for what they were good at, but at the end it combined everything. The message was simple and easy to understand. The commercials I like see are those that are straight to the point and executed in an simple and easy to realize the intent ones.