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VCT 320 Entire course For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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 2VCT 320 Week
3 Individual AssignmentDesigning a Magazine
LayoutVCT 320 Week 3 Team AssignmentProgress
Report (TWO PAPERS)
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VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 1 For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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 For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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 AssignmentIndesign
Page For more classes visits www.snaptutorial.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.  Create an
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VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 1 For more classes
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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 For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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 Week 2 Individual AssignmentCover
Page For more classes visits www.snaptutorial.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.
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VCT 320 Week 2 Team Assignment Progress Report
(TWO PAPERS) For more classes visits www.snaptutor
ial.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. Discuss e
ffective and ineffective design practices.
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VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 1 For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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 Week 3 DQ 2 For more classes
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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.
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VCT 320 Week 3 Individual AssignmentDesigning a
Magazine Layout For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.com Create two extra
pages in your magazine cover Adobe InDesign (.ID
D) 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 AssignmentProgress Report
(TWO PAPERS) For more classes visits www.snaptutor
ial.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 For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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  For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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  For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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) For more classes visits www.snaptutor
ial.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
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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)  For more classes
visits www.snaptutorial.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)  For more classes
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executive summary. Submit a 1,050- to 1,750-word
executive summary to your instructor
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