Greetings! My name is Jensen McDonell, I am a student at Freestyle Academy with a focus in Design. During My time at FreestyleI have been able to test the lengths of my creativity and develop my design skills. Outside of school, I enjoy spending time with my friends and family, and creating artwork with a multitude of mediums.
For my Showcase video, I decided to show the Movie Poster I created in my Design class. We were tasked with creating a professional grade movie poster. Since we have been at freestyle for two years now, we were able to incorporate a lot of the skills and strategies that we have learned about graphic design.
I’m looking to gather some feedback in order to be able to grow as an artist and especially to get feedback from a professional in the design world. Although I will be attending Santa Barbara city college for economics I plan to keep working as an artist full time. My email is (Jensenmcdonell@gmail.com) if you have any other inquiries.
Movie Poster
Artist statement
In the turbulent world of 1850s San Francisco, R.C. Chambers leads a seemingly ordinary life as a pharmacist in the affluent Barbary Coast neighborhood. However, his world is shattered when he witnesses a murder, setting off a chain of chilling events. As the city is gripped by a series of killings, Chambers finds himself entangled in the sinister underworld of opium dens, struggling to distinguish reality from illusion. Haunted by the specter of violence, he descends into a spiral of paranoia and confusion. With each passing day, Chambers grapples with the terrifying possibility of becoming the next victim. As the tension mounts, he is pushed to the brink, culminating in a devastating climax that threatens to consume him entirely.
In order to create my movie poster I used Adobe Illustrator. I was inspired by simplistic movie posters that leave the viewer intrigued while still not giving away everything the movie is about. I wanted to create a graphic that would show that the genre of the story was a psycho thriller. I put a bloodied arm hanging out of the window to make it clear that it is a murder mystery while still not giving away any major events that take place. Some of the tools in Illustrator that I used the most were the live paint tool as well as the pen tool to create some of the graphics. I would also use Adobe Photoshop to edit or tweak some of the images before putting them onto my final product.