Monday, December 8, 2008

Recreate Obama's Logo

For the recreation of Obama's logo my group decided that we were going to keep the circle with the sun rising and the red and white strips. We like the idea of change that Obama's logo already evokes. Even though we might have to tweek it a little bit for copyright reasons. But other than that it will be staying the basic same way. What my group plans on doing is creating designs that combine and the picture into the future plan that we discussed in Obama's speech. For example, we are using the education plan that Obama has. Our group agreed on doing an apple with a bite out of it, and the bite will be the Obama logo. We also plan on doing this for healthcare and possibly foreign policy. The pictured will be represented on t-shirts, billboards, and on buttons. We wanted to use simple pictures that could get the basic idea of what Obama is addressing in his campaign. So people that are aware of Obama's healthcare, education, and foriegn policy plans could reflect on them after looking at this picture or the pictures could catch the eye of someonewho is not familiar with the plan and it may spark interest in looking up obama's plan. I think our logo transformations would have been useful before the election in sparking interest to look up the information about these topics and after the election to let viewers know that Obama is working on these topics. I am very excited to start really making these come to life!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Grou Approach

discuss why and how your group chose to approach the speech and the candidate’s response... My group decided to approach the speech in a serious manner. We decided this because we felt this would be the best way to really demonstrate the essence of Obama's speech. His speech was very good and out group wanted to attempt to be just as good as he was. Also, we wanted his response to be just as powerful and strong as his when we spoke. So we attempted to keep a majority of the content around the same lines as Obama's was. Once again we did not want to take away anything from the speech. That is once again why my group wanted to make the speech serious and attempt to keep the content the same. We collectively felt that his speech was very good and we wanted to give the rewrite of his speech justice. We approached the speech by first looking at Obama's speech and pulling out the ideas that we defiantly wanted to add in our own speech. We looked at the values that we thought were the most important to us and the people of America in a whole. Then we wrote an outline to organize and make sure that we did manage to get all the points in to the speech. Lastly, Sean, our speech writer, wrote the speech with the outline and with Madison and I's input or ideas of what could go into the speech. Thus making the speech we have to present today. We were all very pleased with Sean's final product.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Obama Logo

For Obama's logo I would not say it re creacted him but it created him. The look of the logo, to me, looks as if it is a sun rising over the American flag. Signifying the dawn of a new America and Obama is going to bring that. That is the message that I got after looking at the logo and I think this is the idea that Obama was going for when he was choosing what he wanted for the logo for his campaign. The logo must be done strategically because this represents them and this is one picture that will be in the people's mind when the canidadte is mentioned. I do believe that Obama's logo matches all the ideals and the change that he wanted to come across. I also love that the sun in the background can be seen as the O for Oba,a once again making an appeal to the logo because he does have multiple things that can be seen in the logo. Also the colors are vibrant and patriotic with the red white and blue also the yellow of the sun. The red white and blue obviously are the patiotic colors and the yellow I feel is an amazing way to try and express the change. good logo in all.