- Subject 1. –  Graphic Design as an essential tool: good and bad graphics used in campaigns (a campaign with a good graphic design can be a failure and vice versa). Graphic Design principles and elements that must be considered. Photographic campaigns vs. typographical campaigns.

- Subject 2. – Copywriting techniques; the message, tone of voice, point of view etc.

- Subject 3. – Contextual analysis –with visual examples– of an Ad campaign from the beginning; from Briefing to execution.

- Subject 4. – Creative techniques and different media (TV, Radio, Newspapers, Internet, viral, etc.). What makes an idea a good idea? Ideas that stick in the collective mind; SUCCESs fundamentals. Good ideas poorly executed versus bad ideas well executed.

- Subject 5. – Self-promotion: if your job is to promote big brands, why don’t you use these powers with yourself? Creating a good and bad portfolio. Producing a good folio to land a good job!

- Discussion: At the end of every lecture –theoretical contextualisation–, the subject will be discussed with the students for a few minutes.

This workshop has an eminently practical character.
Go to “EVALUATION” to fill in the detail of each one of the Educational Activity.

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• The evaluation must be considered as Continuous Evaluation and must be solved during the academic period.
  Marks will be quantitative between 0 and 10. The mark should be presented with one decimal.

Students need to attend to 80% of the sessions

The students will produce a learning portfolio of 6 Ad campaigns: 3 successful ones and 3 failures, i.e. campaigns that have increased or decreased the sales or awareness of the products or services promoted. Later on the class will choose a failed campaign unanimously.

The students will need to rethink and redo the chosen Campaign of Activity 1. But with one premise: correct the maximum with the minimum. Using the minimum amount of resources, students will need to redesign the Campaign to achieve considerable and positive results.

The class will divide in groups in which the students will do some role-play. One by one, each member of the group will represent the agency presenting his/her newly redone Campaign, while the rest of the group play the client’s role. Whether they like it or not, they will need to have a say.

The students will produce a learning portfolio with self-promotional examples. It will contain 6 examples of young creative’s portfolios; 3 which the student believes that are impressive and 3 not so impressive. Later on he/she will find out how it was presented to the creative directors at the agencies.