2023 spring exhibition post! 😅

I am so close to finishing off grade 8, and to finish off this year we had our spring exhibition.  I’d say that this spring exhibition was a success. The process of learning and preparation was quite long and took a lot of focus. Our project for the spring exhibition was to create an ad for a business that was on our Oregon trip. The business I was assigned was Wolf Haven. Wolf Haven is a wolf sanctuary in Tenino Washington. It’s a hands off sanctuary that takes in wolves from roadside attractions and pet trade.  It was super fun getting to visit there and seeing all the different wolves and hearing about their story’s. To create our ad we learned all about different advertising techniques and appeals that could help us construct our own final product. I had many first drafts, I was able to slowly improve by getting critique from family, friends, and teachers. Here are some of my interesting first drafts. 🤭

                                 

 

As you can see I progressively got better and started to think about my layout and design as I got farther along the project. Honestly, the longest part of this project was probably learning about how to create an appealing ad. At first I really struggled but with the help of my judgy friends and family I was able to compose a well thought out ad. I chose to use the advertising type Pathos. I did this because I wanted to evoke emotion by showing a sad wolf and saying donate today. I think this technique worked pretty well, and I was pretty happy with my final ad.

The exhibition was really fun I got to share my learning with the community and of course do some face painting. I got to get to know new people better and learn more about the students in PLP. One thing that I definitely learned this exhibition is that I CANNOT face paint 😋. I think that it was good for me to get more comfortable when talking to people and sharing my work. Overall, I had a lot of fun this exhibition and I was able to get used to spending lots of time with my classmates and working for longer periods of time.