Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Reflection of Redesign of Advertisement Essay


I was so confused going in to this essay, I felt so unprepared I didn’t really know where to start or even knew what advertisement to redesign. What made it so bad was missing class the day the rhetorical appeals were taught. So at the time I couldn’t tell the difference between them, I read the article about them so many times I was still lost. Thank God for my peer review partner for helping tell the difference between them. Once I was able to tell the difference between, I was able to use them to describe how the Cover Girl advertisement I chose was successful at using them. Choosing the advertisement was easy, I honestly just chose the first advertisement I seen. And it happened to have Queen Latifah on of my favorite celebrities and she was advertising makeup that I wear. So once I got the hang of what I was doing it was really simple and it was coming up with the redesign just came to me. I came up with the redesign in my head, just growing up not really seeing someone represent/appeal to African American teenage girls made, me want to redesign my advertisement to appeal to African American teenage girls. The only challenges I faced as I began my essay was like I said before trying to start my essay and figure out what I was doing, getting help from Mrs. Rinke and my peer review group helped me overcome my challenge. They helped me get the understanding of how to analyze my advertisement and how they rhetorical appeals were used to appeal to the intended audience. I really liked this assignment because I was able to vision how I would redesign an advertisement. And it was kind of cool to know that every little detail on an advertisement is used to appeal to the intended audience. I never paid attention to images like that this assignment really opened my eyes. Now when I look at advertisements I pay attention to every detail. There were many advertisements where I wondered how it would look if they had this person on it or they used these colors. This assignment made me use my creative side more I love redesigning and creating things. From this assignment I have learned the difference between rhetorical appeals, I have a much greater understanding of them and they are used to appeal to people in advertisements. And I have also learned that when you analyze an advertisement you have to look at every detail even a little white daisy. If I were to get a second chance at writing this essay, I would be more prepared an know what’s going on, I wasted time not knowing what I was wanted to do.

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