![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
From Their Screen to Yours
How CGI is Used in Modern Horror Movies
This is an iconic scene from the 2018 film “Bird Box.” To get the effect in actress Sarah Paulson’s eyes, CGI was used. This is one of the many examples of horror/thriller movies using special effects to enhance movie scenes.
October 27, 2020
Computer generated images or CGI for short are an important factor in many modern films, this is especially true for many modern horror films. CGI can open up new creative avenues and opportunities for producers. Whether that means making objects float without the use of wires or even computer generating a monster CGI has changed the horror industry for the better.
“La Manoir Du Diable” or “The House Of The Devil” is considered to be the first horror movie in existence according to Mental Floss. The movie was made in 1896 by French filmmaker, Georges Méliès. The movie was a short three minute film of a bat turning into a demon via quick frame changes and smoke as well as summoning various characters and objects to appear on the screen. The film’s rudimentary and rugged transitions may have seemed archaic by today’s standards, but for that time period, it was considered a masterpiece.
Flash forward 124 years where special effects are no longer put together with pieces of scrap and paper but instead are generated from a computer on the big screen. A great example of this was the 2018 “A Quiet Place.” In this movie, the creatures that hunted down the protagonists were entirely CGI animated.
The process of designing anything from CGI is both costly and time consuming. In the case of “A Quiet Place,” the monsters that were shown went through several redesigns before the final product was shown. According to CartoonBrew the creatures used design elements from snake scales and prehistoric fish in order to make the creature look scarier.
“Annihilation” is another film that makes excellent use of CGI. Throughout the film CGI is used to make many of the creatures appear mutated. According to The Verge the developers used CGI to blend the characteristics of various creatures to add depth to each mutation. In the case of what is now dubbed “the bear” developers smashed human and bear-like qualities to produce the nightmarish creature.
CGI can often be a taboo topic as any movie critics feel that it can make the movie feel cheap or basic. However, I believe that CGI is an important new aspect in filmmaking and as the technology improves so will the horror movies I enjoy so much.
![Holding a microphone, baseball booster club president Chris Cuevas announces the beginning of the annual cornhole tournament. The event has been held for the past two years and is designed to raise money for the baseball program in a fun way. “We’re a baseball team, so people love to compete,” Cuevas said. “So we figured we better do something that gets [their] attention. They want to compete. It’s not a hard sport to do, and we have all different [skill] levels [of participants].” Photo by Henry Mueller](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Henry-715-1200x900.jpg)
