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• VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 1

• VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 2

• 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?

• 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 In design
  Page

• VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 1

• 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.

• 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?

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• VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 2

• VCT 320 Week 2 Individual Assignment Cover Page

• 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?

• 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 Week 2 Team Assignment Progress Report

• VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 1

• Resources
• Creating Thumbnail Sketches as a Part
  of the Design Process
• Virtual Organization of your teams
  choosing

• 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 Week 3 DQ 2

• VCT 320 Week 3 Individual Assignment Designing a
  Magazine Layout

• 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 outline the information provided in the video.

• 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.
• Note. For this assignment you will need to write
  content based on your own research, of which you
  must cite. Do not copy and paste text that you
  have not written into your magazine spread. You
  may write one long article or a medium-sized
  article.

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• VCT 320 Week 3 Team Assignment Progress Report

• VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 1

• 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.
• Submit your individual design prototypes to your
  Learning Team for review prior to Week Four.

• 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

• VCT 320 Week 4 Individual Assignment Magazine
  Layout Continued

• 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.

• 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

• VCT 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment One More Page

• 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.

• 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.
• Using instructor feedback from previous
  assignments, make updates and improvements to all
  magazine pages created in previous weeks.
• Save the .IDD file to your hard drive.

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• VCT 320 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Final
  Project Brochures

• VCT 320 Week 5 Team Assignment Final Project
  Executive Summary

• University of Phoenix Material Final Learning
  Team Project
• Your teams selected Virtual
  Organization

• Complete the executive summary.
• Submit a 1,050- to 1,750-word executive summary
  to your instructor.

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