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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Entire Course (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com VCT 320 Week 1
Individual AssignmentIndesign Page VCT 320 Week 1
DQ 1 VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 2 VCT 320 Week 2
Individual AssignmentCover Page VCT 320 Week 2
Team AssignmentProgress Report (TWO PAPERS)
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com How would you describe
your experience with the following?   1. Design
principles 2. InDesign or other desktop
publishing software 3. Adobe Creative Suite
programs such as Photoshop or Acrobat   After
reading the course syllabus, what concerns, if
any, do you have regarding the scope of this
course?
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com The Ewell (1996)
article lists a variety of tips for budding
desktop publishers. You will be working in
Learning Teams to create brochures for your final
project. Choose two tips from the article that
you believe will be especially important for your
teammates to follow and explain why these tips
are important. What challenges do you predict
might come about when designing as a team?
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 1 Individual Assignment Indesign
Page (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.vct320guid
es.com The purpose of the Week 1 Individual
Assignment is to practice utilizing basic
functions in InDesign. You will utilize these
skills as you complete each of the assignments
for this class. For this first assignment, you
will not be evaluated on creativity or graphic
design principals, but rather on your ability to
use the software to complete each task correctly.
The Week One Individual Assignment Feedback form
will be used to grade this assignment.
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VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com When designing for a
magazine, what are some of the things one must
consider? What are some of the advantages and
challenges that go along with designing according
to a house style? What are some techniques that
the designer uses to save time when laying out
the magazine?   Do you think that working as a
graphic designer for a magazine would be an
enjoyable career? Why or why not?
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Using Google Images
or another search option, search for examples of
magazine covers. What makes an appealing cover
page of a magazine? What are some common elements
used in magazine cover designs? What kind of
differences do you notice in magazines designed
for different audiences?  
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 2 Individual Assignment Cover Page
(UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.vct320guides.c
om Select a magazine genre such as sports,
popular weeklies, fashion, and so on. For the
remainder of your individual assignments you will
be creating magazine pages for this genre, so be
sure to select a magazine genre that you are
interested in working with for several weeks.
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 2 Team Assignment Progress Report
(TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Resources
Creating Thumbnail Sketches as a Part of the
Design Process Virtual Organization of
your teams choosing Review the Final Learning
Team Project instructions.
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VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com The Berinstein (1998)
article explains some of the licensing issues
that surround images used by designers. If you
were the art director for a magazine, how would
you go about obtaining images for your magazine?
Would you hire a photographer, use stock images
or use some other option? What if you were
designing a brochure in-house for a small local
company? What are some of the advantages and
disadvantages for the buyer of obtaining
different types of images as outlined in the
article?
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Consider a challenge
that you have encountered while completing your
magazine layout assignments. Find a YouTube video
that helps to address the issue that you
encountered. In your response, include a link to
the video along with a summary of the issue that
you encountered along with a summary of the video
and how it proposes to address the issue. If you
have not encountered any issues, find a video
that provides other useful information relating
to the assignments and
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 3 Individual Assignment Designing
a Magazine Layout (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Create two extra pages
in your magazine cover Adobe InDesign (.IDD)
file that fit together to create a two-page
spread. A two-page spread is a set of two pages
that fit together to create one cohesive layout.
These pages should be filled with content
relating to your magazines theme and additional
images should be added.
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 3 Team Assignment Progress Report
(TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Resources
University of Phoenix Material Final Learning
Team Project Your selected Virtual
Organization Review the Final Learning Team
Project instructions.
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VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Read the article "The
Use of Human Models and Cartoon Characters in
Magazine Advertisements for Cigarettes, Beer, and
Nonalcoholic Beverages". Describe some of the
reasons the cigarette and beer industries have
been criticized for their advertisements. Do you
feel that these criticisms are valid or not?
Explain your reasoning. What, if any, limitations
should be put on how these industries advertise?
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Read the article "Who
is gazing at whom? A look at how sex is used in
magazine advertisements?". What are some
generalizations that the study makes about gender
and sex as it relates to advertising? Flip
through a magazine of your choice and look at the
advertisements. Do the findings from the study
align with the types of advertisements found in
the magazine? Describe any similarities or
differences between the two.
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VCT 320 Week 4 Individual Assignment Magazine
Layout Continued (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Create 2 extra pages
in your magazine .IDD file. One of these pages
will be an ad of a type commonly found within
your selected magazine genre. The second page
will be a one page article. Read Creating
Thumbnail Sketches as a Part of the Design
Process.
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Progress Report
(TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Resources
University of Phoenix Material Final Learning
Team Project Your teams selected
Virtual Organization Review the Final Learning
Team Project instructions. Review the design
prototypes submitted by team members in Week
Three.
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VCT 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment One More
Page! (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320guides.com Create 1 more page in
your .IDD magazine file. This page will be an ad
created for the Virtual Organization of your
choice. This ad will need to have the companys
name, color scheme, and images that reflect the
Virtual Organization. Apply similar fonts, but
the size and color are up to you. Use proofing
techniques to finalize your design.
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VCT 320 GUIDES Real Education
VCT 320 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Final
Project Brochures (TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.vct320guides.com Resources
University of Phoenix Material Final
Learning Team Project Your teams
selected Virtual Organization Complete final
revisions to your teams brochure and web
brochure designs.
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VCT 320 Week 5 Team Assignment Final Project
Executive Summary (TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.vct320guides.com Complete the
executive summary. Submit a 1,050- to 1,750-word
executive summary to your instructor.
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