The first image is the "Bad Ad" that I chose to work with. As you can see, it's pretty much a disaster. The alignment is chaotic, there is very little contrast, the image of the soldier continues outside of the border, and fonts don't relate at all. This ad definitely needed some redesigning.

The second image is my recreation of the "Bad Ad." First of all, I knew there had to be some sort of organized alignment. I decided to center the first and last two lines, but then right align the center two because of their location in relation to the image in the background. For contrast, I decided I wouldn't include color because that was one thing I didn't like about the original ad (the way the image of the soldier stood out even though it wasn't the most important part). Instead, I used grey, black, and white to contrast. I bolded the most important parts of the text and made the image of the soldier a lighter grey to help it fade into the background (because it's large size already made it stand out quite a bit). For fonts, I understood that who ever made the original ad wanted to portray the event as fun and exciting. I chose a font to represent this, and then for the more straight forward information (like date, time, etc.) I stayed within the same simple font family to make the ad less chaotic. In changing all of these things, I think, if nothing else, the information is clearer (more direct) and the ad is more pleasant to look at. I hope you like it!