During the spirit rallies, there are a lot of posters hung up around the gym. There are many small posters and each grade gets to build one big poster. Each grade needs to make small posters with slogans supporting themselves or saying something about the other grades. The question is, how are they made?
To start off, they need to design the posters electronically, for example, most sophomores design them on Canva. Then, their design is displayed on a screen in a classroom so they can trace it onto a poster. Once it is traced in pencil, it is taken down to the freshmen cafeteria to paint. It may take a couple of days to paint it and dry it because it could use multiple layers of paint. After the poster is carefully painted and fully dried, they restart the whole process over again and do it again.
In other words, one sophomore student council member Olivia Kaplan said, “ First, we start by cutting out the paper for each poster. We cut 30 small posters and 8 slips of paper for the big poster. Then, for each small poster, we make a digital design, tape it to a wall and project that design on the screen and trace it onto the paper. After that, we paint it. For the big poster, we made a digital design but then used it as a reference to freehand. After we finish drawing it we get people in art classes and everyone helps paint it.”
Some of the small posters have funny slogans or sayings. Some people wonder who creates them and how do they come up with the sayings. Sophomore Student Council member, Ali De Blick stated, “ Olivia Kaplan and Thomas He made a lot of the slogan for the sophmores. Myself and Jasmine Clemente were assigned to make small poster designs that go along with the slogans so we started but it ended up being a group effort and everyone started making designs.”
Since the process is very long some people wonder if the student council members enjoy it. According to one sophomore student council member, Jasmine Clemente said, “ After school every day I go to paint the big poster that we are making. I enjoy it and have a lot of fun because I like to do art. I along with a few others hand sketched each panel of the big poster. There are 8 panels on the poster and it takes about two hours to completely paint one panel. Also, each panel is 13 feet long.”
