What We Do

Each year provides a different focus for students.

Freshman year students dip their toes to experience a little bit of everything. They learn the basics of journalism, photography, InDesign, Photoshop, video production, and career path options.

Sophomore year students envelope themselves in all things print and graphic design. Focus is placed on learning design principles and creating print projects and campaigns using InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

Junior year students begin learning video production and broadcast journalism. Through projects, students are introduced to techniques and practices used in professional productions.

Senior year focuses on continuing the video production of MHS Voice, the school news show, as well as independent projects in a student’s specific area of chosen mass comm focus.

MHS VOICE

Mass communications seniors produce a weekly news show. Students must research, interview, write, shoot, voice and edit their own news style packages.

Current edition of MHS VOICE

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CCAS Logo Designs

Chesterfield county animal services

Sophomore Mass Communications students created the new logo for Chesterfield County Animal Services, while juniors produced videos to help the shelter’s dogs, cats, and even chickens get adopted.

Video Production Classes - Junior and Senior Years

Breakfast Hero

Commercial created with CCPS Food Services to promote National School Breakfast Week. Click on the image to view video

Lunch PSA

One of the PSAs created in 2023 for the National School Lunch Week campaign. The videos were shared in all cafeterias during the week to encourage students to eat a healthy school lunch.

National School Lunch Week

One of the PSAs created in 2023 for the National School Lunch Week campaign. The videos were shared in all cafeterias during the week to encourage students to eat a healthy school lunch.

Breakfast Hero

Commercial created with CCPS Food Services to promote National School Breakfast Week. Click on the image to view video.

SAFE Mask PSA

One of three PSA’s created for the 2022 SAFE PSA Campaign to bring awareness to and stop opioid misuse. Click on the image to view video.

SAFE Teammates PSA

One of three PSA’s created for the 2022 SAFE PSA Campaign to bring awareness to and stop opioid misuse. Click on the image to view video.

SAFE Celebrity PSA

One of three PSA’s created for the 2022 SAFE PSA Campaign to bring awareness to and stop opioid misuse. Click on the image to view video.

Journalism and Print Production Classes - Freshman and Sophomore Years

Illustrator Cereal Box Mock-up

Following a tutorial, students create and brand their own cereal. Click here for other examples of Illustrator projects.

Font Typography

Students took their initials and created their own logos using different formats and fonts. Click here for more design projects!

Quote Project

Students selected a quote to bring to life with design. Click here for more design projects.

Eyewear Ad

Using InDesign, students created new and improved advertisements. Click here for more InDesign examples.

Campaigns

Each year the sophomore class completes an internship that usually involves creating an advertising campaign. Click here for more examples of previous campaigns created for CCPS and the community.

CCPS Food & Nutrition Campaign

Each year, sophomores complete to have their National School Breakfast Week or National School Lunch Week poster chosen to be produced and displayed in every county school cafeteria - elementary, middle, and high school. Click here for previous examples.

English Literature CrossOver

Collaborating is key to our program. We frequently tie projects together in Mass Comm Production, English, and Social Studies classes.

English Literature Crossover

Collaborating is key to our program. We frequently tie projects together in Mass Comm Production, English, and Social Studies classes.

New Flags

Collaborating is key to our program. We frequently tie projects together in Mass Comm Production, English, and Social Studies classes.

Downtime December Campaign created by sophomores

School campaign

Sophomore graphic design students developed a marketing campaign promoting less screen time for teens in December. The campaign included posters, flyers, daily announcements, challenge cards, and stickers.

diversity campaign

Manchester is proud of its diverse student body. Mass Communications sophomores celebrated this diversity with a marketing campaign, designing stickers, t-shirts, and posters for the school.

Chesterfield County Animal Services Logo

Chesterfield County Animal shelter

Sophomores designed the current CCAS logo (above) along with a campaign to debunk myths about shelter animals.

What We Do

MHS VOICE

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Chesterfield county animal services

Video Production Classes - Junior and Senior Years

Journalism and Print Production Classes - Freshman and Sophomore Years

School campaign

diversity campaign

Chesterfield County Animal shelter

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