"How well can you apply advanced narrative techniques to build a compelling story?"

By exploring various narrative points of view and experimenting with dialogue in their story writing, students develop more advanced storytelling techniques and ideas they apply in the creation of surreal compositions, movie posters, book jacket designs, screenplays, films, trailers, keyframe and motion caption animations, 3D layered art and videos, and JavaScript websites. Students deepen their technical communication skills by learning a variety of modern professional equipment and applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Substance Painter, Avid Pro Tools, Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript with Visual Studio Code.

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

The Product Assignment in Design class challenges Senior students in three parts; to create a logo for a chosen consumer product, to design a label affixed to a digital mockup of that product, and to create a magazine advertisement based on marketing and psycho/social research on how best to influence their target audience.

This project required extensive research into marketing and influencing techniques regarding color, font, placement, hierarchy, and mood. After all three parts were completed, students placed their final products into Photoshop to create a triptych.