Super Bowl Ads

1.    What ad did you find most entertaining, and why? (You should be specific and give details here – what was the product and what about the ad made it so entertaining to you?)

The ad I found most entertaining was the Kevin Heart, First Date Hyundai commercial, for the car finder.  I found it entertaining, because, Kevin Heart following the guy around  combined with the music, made the ad really funny and enjoyable. 

2.    What commercial did you find the most dull/boring, and why?

The ad that I found most boring was the Audi R8 commander commercial. I found this to be the most boring simply, because it failed to hold my complete attention, it wasn't funny nor did it show something weird or crazy to catch my attention so i mostly ignored it. 

3.    What about your favorite ad made it most effective?

The music, along with the humor of the ad made it most effective. Kevin Heart following his daughter and her date around and freaking the guy out made me laugh and enjoy the ad, making it entertaining to me. 

4.    What about your least favorite ad made it ineffective?

The beginning of the ad starts out with an someone talking and showing pictures of astronauts, and although i paid attention it was only halfway and one the spaceship countdown i turned my attention mostly away, mostly because of my personal opinion in disliking astronaut movies and the countdown reminded me of them. Don't get me wrong! The ad was sad and emotional, however to me it just wasn't entertaining. 

5.    Did either of your commercials (favorite or least favorite) feature any famous people?  Do you think that helped?  Why or why not?

Yes the Hyundai commercial featured Kevin Heart and Hardy Nintendo(although I only found out about her from the comments)  .  This helped,because as soon as I saw Kevin Heart my response was automatically like 'is that Kevin Heart? What is he doing in the commercial? and is it going to be funny?' thus furthering my amount of attention that I gave it.
The Audi commercial also featured Ryan Reynolds, but to be honest I didn't even notice him until the third time watching it. It also featured David Bowie's "Starman" , but the only reason i know what song it was, was because I scrolled down to the comment section on youtube and a lot of people were talking about it. Therefore, at least for me, the featuring of the famous people were ineffective. 

6.    What design elements or principles (lines, shapes, texture, color/color scheme, space, balance, contrast, etc.) were used in each commercial?  Provide at least two (2) and explain.  What affect did they have on the successfulness of the ads?

In the Hyundai commercial they used Negative spacing, giving you more focus on the people in the ad. they also used texture as there were people and scenes that looked as if you could touch them. 
In the Audi commercial they used more positive spacing, filling up the screen with close up of the car and tings such as that. They also, like the Hyundai commercial used texture with it looking as if you could reach out and touch what was portrayed in the ad.

Business

If I were to open a business I would make it an Otaku shop. There I would sell mostly anime related things, such as POP figures, t-shirts, costumes, lanyards, chairs, hats, and necklaces. Of course that is only an example of what I would sell there would be more printed items, maybe some manga books, posters and such to sell as well. However, I wouldn't just sell anime related things, I would also sell things that people are obsessed with. These items would include topics such as Marvel, and DC, Band t-shirts, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Harry Potter and many more. Thinking about it my store would be a lot like Hot Topic except with more items and varieties to offer. I would most likely name my shop Otaku Shop or something along those lines, maybe play around with the  name and get a little more creative. At first I would start out small with one shop in a shopping center, or mall, then I would expand my business if it went well and would have multiple businesses that would hopefully eventually expand across country, and maybe even across seas.

Snow Days

During the snow days I walked to my friends house where we played UNO and Monopoly. That was on Friday and on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I stayed home and built a Network with my dad on my new computer. Hearing about the three hour delay I was happy that I didn't have to wake up early, but I feel like they might as well have not have had school today. Coming to school and seeing the majority of it covered in Snow and ice to the point where they had to block off half the school makes me wonder why they thought we should come into school today even if it was later.