I have to make a commercial!?

Question

I have to make a magazine ad or a billboard ad for a school project, anyone know how to make a good ad?

Answer 1

Depends on what it is about.  If you need some free stock photo's go to www.sxc.hu , good site that I've used for both school and clients.  I use photoshop to do my ads with.  Depending on what program you are using you should find a website like www.pixel2life.com and try out some tutorials for that program to help you get more adjusted to it.

My rule for making ads is KISS.  Keep It Simple Stupid.  I remember we had to make a poster for our ad class, and this one student wanted to take pictures of the girls basketball team, and make them look like they were flaming hot.  Great idea, but lots of work.  First you have to take or get a picture, then learn how to manipulate it so they look on fire.  This person had such a hard time and such a short time frame that they finally dropped the class.  I did a poster for MADD, just a plain black background with pictures of real people who've died from drunk drivers.  Used some plain white bold text and gave it a saying that would catch someone's attention.  

Think of something new but yet simple.