This seminar’s topic is probably the most interesting one I’ve did in this unit. It’s about advertisement for traveling. I self studied graphic design for a long time so I was really active in that seminar. One thing I’m proud of is that I probably got 2 high marks by aggressively rebutting others. And eventually I got a 7. Pretty much I’m satisfied.
We started with a discussion around the propaganda posters made by ourselves. And we had a furious battle over the idea whether red and purple colors should appear in Africa Tour ads. Then we also had a battle of the random kid pic on the adventurous Indonesia trip ad. Both of them are controversial and to be honest, that was a very good discussion.
Then we talked about Texts’ usage in ads. I learned that by linking text information with visual contents closely can unify the message you wanna convey. Also the fonts can also be adjusted for your poster’s theme and aiming audiences. For example, if you wanna make your poster look professional you may adjust your font to more simple ones. If you wanna convey a more adventurous theme you may chose scribble fonts to fit. (According to Olivia Eliza Ryan’s poster)
So about the leaders’ performances, I think it’s really good to use the 30sec timer. It really increases our efficiency and info quality. We had some good questions though I think the fancy one is really abstract. We can have more debatable questions next time, like this seminar. I’m a bit confused though why the leaders only got 6?