15 SLIDES REQUIRED PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Upper Coast Bank has branches all over the United States. Sophia Baker, the Vice President of Residential Lending at the Hartford, Connecticut branch, hired you as her executive assistant. Sophia wants to create a simple presentation that will help her explain some of the details about applying for a mortgage to first-time home buyers. She asks you research all the details for applying for a mortgage for first-time home buyers and then create the presentation that the company will be using to present the information to the customers. Sophia is depending on you to represent the company well with this presentation. FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS 1. Number of Slides: Minimum of 15 slides and a maximum of 20 slides. Gradated penalty for too less or too many slides. This means that the more slides you are away from the 15-to-20 range, the more points will be deducted. Note: The slide count excludes the title and bibliographical slides. 2. Layout and Design: Slides must be easy to read and uncluttered (no more than 7 items to a line and no more than 7 lines to a slide). Keep it simple. 3. Font Size: Use standard font like Times New Roman or Arial. Use 36-point font for title, 28-point font for main points, and 24-point font for secondary points. 4. Footer: Include the slide number, title of your presentation, and your name in the footer (except on Title slide). 5. Background/Theme: Appropriate Foreground-Background Segregation (use dark text against a light background or white or light-colored text against a dark background. This creates contrast.) PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS 1. Title Slide: Include your name, course name, Instructor’s name and title: Mortgage Essentials. 2. Outline and Summary Slides: Slide # 2 must be your outline slide, this gives a list of the topics you will cover. The summary slide recaps all the topics you have covered. 3. Contents: Include appropriate contents about applying for a mortgage for first-time home buyers. Use creativity in arranging your contents on your slides. 4. Word Document Outline: Include one document created in MS Word and imported in your presentation. 5. Speaker’s Notes: Add appropriate speaker notes to every slide (Even slide 1 and the summary slide.) Type the exact words you would speak as if you were talking to the audience during the actual presentation (e.g., the title slide speaker's notes would start off as "Hello, my name is John Doe. My presentation today is about _______."). You are pretending here as if you were presenting in person. 6. List: The presentation must contain at least one bulleted list, one numbered list, and one customized list. 7. Slide Show: The slide show must be set up to use manual timing (on mouse click). 8. Reference Slide: Minimum of TWO professional / scholarly sources cited using APA formatting. Sources must be cited on the slides as well as on the Reference Slide.