Address: 12601 Bailey Bridge Road
Midlothian, VA 23112
Office: 804-739-6275
Coordinator: tracy_obrien@ccpsnet.net
Graphic Design
Students learn the principles of visual communication and produce logos, websites, and promotional materials using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Video production
Do you want to take your video production skills to the next level? Learn how to produce slick videos to communicate your ideas. Students learn how to shoot, write, voice and edit for video.
Journalism
Students learn the essential reporting and writing skills for journalism. Through a mix of study and hands-on learning students produce journalistic stories for a variety of media platforms.
MHS VOICE
Mass communications seniors produce a weekly news show. Students must research, interview, write, shoot, voice and edit their own news style packages.
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.
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.
Journalism and Print Production Classes - Junior and Senior Years
Journalism and Print Production Classes - Freshman and Sophomore Years
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
Sophomores designed the current CCAS logo (above) along with a campaign to debunk myths about shelter animals.
Course Sequencing
We Create… journalists, creatives, strategic communicators
The Center for Mass Communications at Manchester High School provides instruction in the fields of journalism, advertising and public relations. Included within these realms are video production, photography, graphic design, social media, and media analysis.
Students take mass communications technology courses, English, and for the first two years, history within the specialty center. MC students take all other courses (world language, math, science, etc.) separate from the center at the appropriate level for each individual.
The Mass Communications program seal requires:
four years of Mass Communications production classes
four years of Mass Communications English
two years of Mass Communications world history
two Mass Communications electives
What students love about the Mass Communications program
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