Visual Communications

The newspaper staff produces the high school newspaper, The Bruin. The staff determines news content, writes, edits, proof-reads articles, lays out pages and takes digital photos. May take more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Teacher Approval.

MHS students use a television studio space to create media projects and broadcast a televised show "Bear Claw Broadcast.” May take more than once for credit.

This class combines art skills with the principles of design while utilizing industry standard computer programs. Skills learned in this course will enable students to attain digital design and art skills that can be applied in other courses. May take more than once for credit.

Students will produce The MAC, the high school yearbook. Students will receive instruction in Adobe InDesign, photojournalism, page layout, and graphics. May take more than once for credit.

Students will learn the components of radio and podcast production including: interviewing, story development, script writing, interview techniques, remote recording and digital audio recording, editing of sound, mixing, and final production for broadcast. 

Photography combines digital photography with webpage design. Students will be introduced to basic camera features and photo composition. Students will also learn how to use Adobe Photoshop.

This course is a continuation of 21st Century Photography. Students will learn advanced elements of digital photography, graphic design and advanced Adobe Photoshop skills.

Have fun designing web pages using Flash and Photoshop. Let your creative side show with the designing/editing software Photoshop. Combine your Flash and Photoshop skills to create professional, up-to-date web sites.

The course emphasizes an understanding of the historical, cultural, commercial, and aesthetic contexts that influence film, but also develops the student's understanding of a film's narrative and visual structure and its place within established theoretical traditions.

This course is an introductory course to filmmaking. Students will learn basic film editing and audio skills as well as the essential fundamentals of filmmaking - storyboarding, camera use, camera movements, lighting, sound, directing, and actor staging.

The purpose of this class is to help students understand filmmaking as a tool to communicate a message. For their culminating class project, students will prepare a storyboard, write a screenplay, and direct and produce a short film.  

Students are partnered with media companies to work and/or job shadow. May take more than once for credit. Prerequisite: 2.5 Pathway Credits