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VCT 320 Entire Course (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.vct320mart.com   VCT 320 Week 1
Individual AssignmentIndesign PageVCT 320 Week 1
DQ 1VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 2VCT 320 Week 2
Individual AssignmentCover PageVCT 320 Week 2
Team AssignmentProgress Report (TWO PAPERS)VCT
320 Week 2 DQ 1VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 2
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VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.com   How would you describe
your experience with the following?1. Design
principles2. InDesign or other desktop
publishing software3. Adobe Creative Suite
programs such as Photoshop or AcrobatAfter
reading the course syllabus, what concerns, if
any, do you have regarding the scope of this
course?
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VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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 Week 1 Individual Assignment Indesign
Page (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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.vct320mart.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 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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?Share an example of a
well-designed cover and provide examples of how
you can apply the techniques
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VCT 320 Week 2 Individual Assignment Cover Page
(UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.vct320mart.com
  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.  Research how your selected magazine genre
typically approaches layout and cover design. 
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VCT 320 Week 2 Team Assignment Progress Report
(TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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. Research electronic
and print brochures related to the type of
brochure your team is designing.
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VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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?
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VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP) To Purchase This
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www.vct320mart.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
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VCT 320 Week 3 Individual Assignment Designing a
Magazine Layout (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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 Week 3 Team Assignment Progress Report
(TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.com   Resources          
University of Phoenix Material Final Learning
Team Project          Your selected Virtual
Organization  Review the Final Learning Team
Project instructions.  Create, individually,
design prototypes for the brochure. Your design
prototypes should be consistent with the
principles of effective visual design. 
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VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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.vct320mart.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.  Research appropriate ad
types.  Create thumbnails for possible layout
options. 
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VCT 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Progress Report
(TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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. Select one brochure design to be used for
the final submission to your instructor.
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VCT 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment One More
Page! (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.vct320mart.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 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Final
Project Brochures (TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.vct320mart.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. Submit the following
deliverable to your instructor  Brochure
designed for print, delivered as a PDF file.
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VCT 320 Week 5 Team Assignment Final Project
Executive Summary (TWO PAPERS) (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.vct320mart.com   Complete the
executive summary. Submit a 1,050- to 1,750-word
executive summary to your instructor.
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