Presidential+Advertisements

== Advertising is powerful tool used to get consumers to buy a product. A successful ad campaign can make you want to buy almost anything. Many candidates today use famous images to enrich their campaign advertising as well as use the past to make them seem creditable. ==

Assignment: You are to create a poster in Adobe Photoshop using a current famous advertising image and one of the presidential candidates, either Mitt Romney or Barrack Obama. You must include one campaign issue in the poster that will tie in with the advertisement. (Make sure to check that what you choose is acceptable)



Using Photoshop and the famous ad, recreate an updated version of this ad using your candidate

[[image:obama-ad-poster.png width="255" height="328" align="right"]]
and one of the issues that you feel is the most important to you.


 * Dimensions: 8.5 X 11 paper, resolution: 150, Background: Set to White.
 * Requirements: 2 photographic images from the web only-1 must be your candidate
 * Redraw the logo for candidate using Photoshop tools
 * Using the TEXT tool include campaign slogan used by candidate
 * Use one campaign issue that you strongly agree with to highlight in this poster- use text.
 * All other images and effects must be drawn or created in Photoshop

**Evaluation Directions:**
Create a word document, copy and paste the questions below into Word. Answer questions in complete sentences using proper spelling and punctuation. Upload finished assignment and self evaluation to your web page.

1. What is the campaign theme you chose? Why is is important to you? 2. Why did you pick this specific candidate? How is he important to you? 3. How would the advertisement you chose relate to the candidate? 4. Were you successful in the advertisement? Why or Why not? 5. Which of the standards did you use and how did you use them?

ISTE Standards