About the overarching Unit Question:

The Reflections Project challenges Seniors to explore a question that is at once simple and deeply complex:

"Who am I?"

Experimenting with personal as well as lyrical essay forms, students develop insights about their experiences and identities before translating those ideas visually in various kinds of image productions, video essays, websites, mandalas, and short animations. Students deepen their technical communication skills by learning more skills with a variety of modern professional equipment and applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Substance Painter, Avid Pro Tools, Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, WordPress, and Google Apps.

About the specific project within the unit that is featured in this gallery:

(2025-present) The Concert Poster assignment required Design seniors to select a genre of music pre-2000, and from within that genre a famous band/singer. Their job, using Adobe Illustrator was to create a concert poster that emulated the particular art style that was popular during that era, particularly the use of color, font style and layout. They were required to select a well-known venue, and a date and time from the past when this concert occurred. This project quickly became a favorite among students.

(2021-2024) The PSA (Public Service Announcement) assignment challenged students to investigate a socially relevant platform with which to base a poster meant to encourage social change, to raise awareness and change public attitudes, opinions, or even behavior towards an issue. These messages can be instructional or inspirational to elicit emotion and action. Students used Adobe Illustrator for their creations.