5100

I'm doing a major in marketing, probably go into advertising (don't give me that look, marketing as a major is just as good as finance or economics or accounting. I don't know why a certain someone laughed when I told them that I was majoring in marketing. She laughed! in my face!)

Anyways I came across this advertising competition on Adkungfu for people who would like the chance to intern at one of the big 4 advertising agencies in China. I know, I know, I live in NZ and haven't been back to China in like 6 years, but I'd just like to see how far I can get with my little ideas.

You have to come up with preferrably a print ad, advertising 5100, a brand of minteral water from Tibet. The focus is on the pureness and the distinctiveness of the brand, with a message of this pureness in this unpure world. I thought it'd be pretty easy, you know slap a picture of the mineral water on some etheral looking Tibetan scenery and put a witty slogan beside it. Well, obviously dozens or so others had the same idea as me, and did just that. Here's one of them:
Damn it, they got there before me. So then I thought I could do a cool image of where you put the bottle of mineral water in the middle of a metropolitan city but through the bottle you see the clean nice bustling city but all around the bottle its kinda dull and dirty. you know, the idea of pureness in an unpure world. Well, someone else kinda got the same idea. Sigh can't do this one either.

So now I have thise idea of putting gift wrapping the bottle in glaciers (the water source is from glaciers), like those cool graphics where you shop the desired image onto some other surface, ie glaciers onto gift wrapping paper. Sounds good enough right, but I don't freaking know how to! I downloaded gimp, thinking I could somehow work it out how to do it on there but I ain't getting no where. So now I'm doing it old school. I'm printing all my images out and pasting them by hand then scanning it back to the computer to submit it.

Don't laugh!

So now instead of cropping tools, paintbrush and fill tools, I have to use glue, scissors and pencils.


I'm so not going to win this thing... :(