No, I think you've hit your goal on the head. This is very impressive. I think the gradient and the colors work perfectly with the football player, and the football player really grabs your attention. I think the warning is fine--I think it works with the ambiance you've created. I might make the font on the bottom a little bigger or something. It's kinda hard to see and doesn't look so good. Other than that, it's great!

I really like this Ad. The work done with Gradients is a nice effect but you might want to do a little more in terms of fonts. Also I would recomend putting the WARNING in all red all capital letters.
Good work

This is one of the most attention grabbing promotional materials posted. I like how you incorporated the cover of your cd on the ad so people will know what to look for. I also like how it is simple and to the point. One concern I have is the image of the football player, could it be copyrighted? I like the two black bars on the side, but I don't think you'll have the correct proportions for a magazine advertisement if you keep them. Overall, wonderful ad.

What grabs my attention first and what I like the most is the harsh, competitive stare of the football player. It contrasts well with the gradient background and invokes the right emotional response.

I think there is a way to make the warning label work, but I don't know if it's doing that for you right now. It's a little distracting and it's competing with your main emphasis which is the football player. I would play with it some more, by making it smaller and less conspicuous as are most warning labels.

I think the transitions are timed right, this is an instant gratification era and you capture this right on. I don't think it is too long at all, very good use of software to create this. I like how the CD itself is positioned in the advertisement. The colors and polka dots really grab your attention, and wonder what is this about.

The lens flare looks fine and maybe add something like that to names of artists at the bottom since to me the bottom half of the poster has too much space so adding a little something there might help. The font used for the text is done good and I like how you the the word "features".

i like the idea of it. i would get rid of the lense flare.

It's cute but I think you should have a black & white version because you are restricting yourself too much if you can only advertise in a color paper. By looking at your ad, I can't even tell if you are selling a CD, DVD, concert tickets, until I read the fine print at the bottom. Maybe you could have an image of a CD or music notes somewhere in the background. Also, since your theme is change of style, you might want to experiment with fonts of different styles. Nice Work!

I like this ad because it is simple. There is not a bunch of distractions from your message. Your message is simple, your ad is simple. The only thing I think that would improve this is if you give me some type of idea of what music I will be hearing. If it is rock music, make it a little more lively. Maybe a picture or two, maybe more color. You might want to list a band or two. From "Experience The Many Types of Music" I could immagine some jazz, some folk music, elevator music, or disco. I am pretty sure you mix will have none of these types of music, and if that is what I am expecting I would be disappointed.

Your ad doesn't tell the readers what it is selling until the last line. It is usually a good idea to incorporate this earlier, so that the reader doesn't skip over your ad. Your make this fact the eye-catching quality of the ad.

I think this ad would be eye-catching in a newspaper. Especially if it is in color. The green lines would make it stand out from the other ads.

My only suggestions is to consider using more of the green or make your green lines more prominent (bigger, lighter background). Right now they do stand out but I think you could make them stand out a little more.

I think the ad looks good. You might want to consider changing the font of the word "style" to add to your "change of style" feel.

I can understand what you're advertising clearly, and it probably would catch my attention because of the contrast of the bright green and black.

Several people have already commented on this, but I thought I would let you know that you spelled "experience" wrong. Not a big deal now, but could become one if it's not changed ha.

This is a really unique idea for a promotion. I can read everything on there and I like the pockets for additional flyers.

The text plays with your eyes a little bit in the middle of the bursts. I think the pockets would work you just need to make a reason for them to carry the pocket sized tear out tabs. For instance if they get 5% off the CD or if they bring this to the store they will recieve a free gift. The overall design works, the priceless joke is kind of old though.

It looks nice but it doesn't really catch my eye. Maybe try to add some sort of animation? I think adding something saying "listen here" would be good. It would intrigue people to listen. The size depends on where it would be advertised. If it is the main banner on the top of a page then I think it might need to be bigger. Background images look great (somewhat formal though). Who are you appealing to?

It's a nice start, but I have several suggestions. I think you should use a font that isn't so pixelated. A font with smooth edges will look more professional. (Try looking at dafonts.com) Also, why is the tower in the middle tilted like the leaning tower of Pisa? You might have a good reason for that, but I can't figure it out right away. If you know how to animate, or maybe by reading tutorials online, I think it would really add a finishing touch if you made the stars twinkle. Nice banner and colors.

The banner is definitely intersting to look at and the background image is great. For text, maybe add like "in store (some date)" also the text would look better if the text was smooth out since it looks pixelated at the edges. Size of the banner to me seems a bit small in width wise but for size there is no standard just make it the size that works for fitting all text and images best.

My first thought is that I don't know what your banner is for. It actually sounds like a radio station rather than a CD.

I like how the background represents the entire day. I think this is eye catching but I think you could do a little more to make it stand out. For example maybe some text explaining what it is for. I think some text saying click here 'for something' is a good idea. I wouldn't recommend listen, I think that is too close to the radio station sound.

The size of the ad would depend on where it is posted. It is a good size but might be too small for some websites.

I think the content and the changing background works great with the caption of the banner. I think the size works great. I think a "Click to Listen" is necessary because, other than the word "rock" it's hard for me to tell what this is advertising for. Rock doesn't necessarily have to mean "rock and roll". A "Listen here" or related text or image will better represent what you're trying to sell.

I am not sure what the phrase under the title is selling about the CD. I like the picture of the sun and the general inside the house motif. I think the picture would be more rexlaing if you took out the face and put a stickfigure face or something. Yellow was a good color to choose.

I see that you want to stick with the same style as you did for the cd package. Personally, i dont think it is aesthetically pleasing enough to make me want to look into buying the cd. I would suggest maybe putting a little more time into it, to add a more relaxing vibe to it. Right now, it seems a little chaotic.

Great art and design. The only thing I might change is the checkmark. It doesn't look like it fits, and its not a common checkmark. Otherwise, Great Job!

Just change up the way the words Rear View Mirror Mix are placed. The way it is now looks like it should have two different check boxes, because the point sixe is too big to fit the phrase on the same line. Try changing the font size to get your phrase on one line and that will show that those two lines belong together. Other than that it looks good.

Not so sure about version 2. If its a teen dance mix, shouldnt there be dancers on the front rather than a cheerleader and a guy shooting a basketball? I think they would fit if it were a sport cd, but not for dance.

I really like the dark background and the water rings in your ad. I might consider taking out the basketball player since he doesn't have a lot to do with dancing and maybe put in someone in a pose.

I can see from your work that you are very skilled. I especially like the "MagazineAd" one. I think, however, that you are correct... it doesn't exactly fit with your purpose, but I think you solved that in your version 2. I don't think you need to put in your CD covers, it looks fine with the characters in the background (version 2). I think you could just about call yourself done. Very impressive.

A picture at the bottom left might work. I don't really get what you are doing here with putting the guy in many different spots. Maybe stick to one general college scene and stick the guy or two. I would then stick maybe a couple of songs from the album on the poster...like featuring such and such. Good idea though.

Perhaps the font/color of each song title should fit each of the pictures. ie. Use a different font/color for each picture. It looks like you are trying to say that your music CD can be listened to anywhere, anytime, and the different types of text on the poster would help reinforce that message. I don't think you need another picture for that last panel. In fact, I suggest that instead of having a panel title, that you rearrange the 5 panels for the song titles, so that are evenly spaced around the poster (kinda like a clock) and just have the CD title and information overlay it in the middle. I guess that would be more like a 5-pointed star actually. That would help your poster look more interesting and solve your title panel problem. You also would not have to look for more college photos either.

I don't think this idea does a very good job in tying in the music to the ad. If I saw this I would be able to guess that you are trying to relate it to college just because I recognize some of the locations. Were you planning on using all of these images? I think you are focusing on the college aspect way too much. If I saw this, I would have no idea it is for a CD. Also, college is not just about the location, its about the experience. Try to get some pictures of students just having a good time and incorporate that with music some how.

i think you should try to find a way to seperate the pictures a little better, or maybe a way to blend one into the other. Just setting them side to side is sort of unpleasing.

You have a good start but I think you need to make some changes. First, it is way too cluttered and confusing to have 6 blocks with totally different themes. You should pick just one and really work with that one. I like the grocery store the best, (I think it is a grocery; Middle row, second column). What you put on the poster is going to depend a lot on where it is going to be seen. I don't know any of that background, but you should put the title of the CD, release date, maybe featured artists, and you might consider giving the character earphones or a boom box, so it looks like a CD ad.

The banner has a nice bold color with contrasting white text. It makes the words stand out, but the animation is a bit too fast to read what's there with the typeface that was used.
Slow down the animation and it's good.

Looks good but maybe try to slow down the animation a bit. The words don't stay up long enough to read it the first time so you have to wait and read it a second time (which might actually be what you're going for). Looks good though. I like the font and the red color really pops.

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The color and large text make the banner catchy, but the rate at which the text is displayed is way too fast. I would definitely recommend slowing it down. Also, I would suggest putting in a little more detail, such as the name of your album. (I saw that there is an option to click for more info, but I think it would still help to include a little more on the main banner.)

I really like the look and style of the banner, it seems in your face (in a good way!) and suggests some sort of metal or rock music.

The timing does seem to be a little fast, I had to watch the banner three or four times just to make sure I read everything there. You might also want to mention what sort of music these concerts are (although if the music is what my impression is, maybe you don't need to)

You are right about the person looking like he is gliding, although given how fast he moves across the entire banner, it is more like he zooms. Perhaps you should slow him down a little? I had to watch the banner play a few times before I could tell it was a person. You may want to leave the text up there a little longer as well. It does look a banner ad that one would randomly see on the internet. I don't think it looks multimillion-dollar corporation professional, I think it looks more like a cartoony kind of professional. Which is fine. Kinda like the difference between Microsoft ads and Mac ads. Especially where they have those two guys. Anyway, I think it is a very good start to an ad, it just needs a little more work to polish it up a bit, whether you try to make it look purposefully cartoony or corporation-like.

I actually really like this banner, as it is a little offbeat and the entire banner fits the cartoony look of the person. It DOES look like a banner I would see on the internet, and while it doesn't look polished and clean like perhaps large company would make for itself, I think the look actually gears itself better towards the younger crowd (Assuming you're targeting them)

This does look like an advertisement from a website and I agree he does look like he is gliding. I would extend the graphic in some way. It is very short and I wanted more for instance pop up the album with the little guy next to it or something to that effect.

I think you've got good start... but it's kinda.. well, I have an urge to laugh when I see the little dude kinda .. running across the screen. I think that's a really good attention getter. Perhaps imperfection could work in your favor here! Perhaps you should aim for making it funny!

You could maybe add some more description after the animation. I do like the simplicity of it. It is similar to a lot of other banner ads that are out there.
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This flash popup ad is insane. It takes a little bit of thinking to get what you mean by From the Roots, but at the end it is clear what you are saying. Very nice job. You might want to make the Rock drop down faster.

First impression is it looks really professional. Very cool graphics. It took a while for it to run though. If there is some way to make the animation run faster it might be helpful. I don't think I would pay attention that long if I had to sit and wait for it. Otherwise pretty cool.

i like this but i think you need to speed it up a little. i just thought i twas a bit slow. other than that, good job! great color scheme

I think it's really good, but I think you should perhaps make the transitions shorter. I had to guess a few times whether the ad was done or not... I see you've addressed that though. Other than that, it's very neat.

I think the top is really good. I think the bottom could use a little work though... it seems sort of unorganized and hard to make out.. (perhaps some styling on the text?)

i think the song list at the bottom is very difficult on the eyes. i think you should maybe center all of them. the way they are jumbled up at the bottom makes it very confusing to my eyeballs. cool sun tho.

Looks great. Good job on the sun graphic. I'd remove the green from the text though. I think that works against the HOT theme. I'd also try to make the text a little more intense. There are alot of tutorials on-line about how to make text look like it's on fire. You might want to look into something like that. Other then that it looks great!