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• VCT 320 Entire course

• VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 1

• VCT 320 Week 1 Individual AssignmentIndesign
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  320 Week 2 Individual AssignmentCover PageVCT
  320 Week 2 Team AssignmentProgress Report (TWO
  PAPERS)VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 1

• 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
  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 Week 1 DQ 2

• VCT 320 Week 1 Individual AssignmentIndesign Page

• 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.  

• 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.

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• VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 1

• VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 2

• 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?  

• 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

• VCT 320 Week 2 Team Assignment Progress Report

•  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.

• 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

• VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 2

• 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?

• 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

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• VCT 320 Week 3 Individual AssignmentDesigning a
  Magazine Layout

• VCT 320 Week 3 Team AssignmentProgress Report

• 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 t.gether to create one
  cohesive layout.These pages should be filled with
  content relating to your magazines theme and
  additional images should be added. 

• 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.

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• VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 1

• VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 2

• 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.

• 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.  

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• VCT 320 Week 4 Individual Assignment Magazine
  Layout Continued

• VCT 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Progress Report

• 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.

• Review the Final Learning Team Project
  instructions.
• Review the design prototypes submitted by team
  members in Week Three.
• Submit a team progress report to your instructor
  explaining what your team accomplished during the
  week, challenges your team faced, and questions.

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• VCT 320 Week 5 Individual Assignment One More
  Page!

• VCT 320 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Final
  Project Brochures(TWO PAPERS)

• 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.

• 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

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

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