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ART321 – Project 4 – Flash Advertisement

So the idea that I am trying to convey in this ad is “you don’t have to be a ballerina to wear ballet shoes”.  I first started off showing excuses for not being a ballerina.  You can see from the first picture, I ask the audience if they “always wanted to be a ballerina”.  Then the next scene showing a zebra standing with a crowd of cows representing “though they all have black and white spots but they are still different; therefore, unfit.”  However, my original plan for this scene was to have a picture of an “atypical” size of ballerina shown here.  The idea of having an atypical size of ballerina shown here is because in the world of ballet, dancers are expected to be slim.  If you are not, in my personal impression of the ballet world, you will be rejected right away; thus being “physically unfit” forms an excuse for not being a ballerina.  My concern for placing a photography of an atypical size ballerina is it might be a little offensive for some people, which is something that I am not interested in seeing.  Therefore, I immediately plan out a route B for this secene.  However, I still feel this representation of having a zebra standing among a crowd of cows is still too weak.