Mood Boards

To help us convert our thoughts for our opening scenes into something physical, we created a mood board for each of our film openings.

This is the mood board for our 1920s style idea for a film opening:

We chose pictures that we found were relevant to our narrative:

• The two women dressed in 1920s clothes- to show what our protagonist will look like in costume and makeup.
• Screen shot from the film 'Schindler's List'- to present our idea with the film being in black and white but the ruby on the ring being in red.
• The crime scene- in order to represent the genre of the film, which is a crime investigation thriller.
• The ring- to insinuate that the film has a connection with a red ring.
• The 1920s car and the woman at the dressing table- to show our understanding of mise en scene within a 1920s style piece.
• The big house and party scene- to represent a party and a sense of isolation which comes with that, as the house is big and seems as if it is in the middle of nowhere.
• The woman looking shocked: to present an idea of fear and horror.
• The door knob- for presenting our idea of the door knob being the last shot of the opening scene.
• The binoculars- to give a sense of hidden identity (when the murderer is watching the woman going up the drive)

This is our mood board for our second idea:

• The Tower- to show the location for our film.
• The bedroom- the place in which the girls are gathered in when the lift opens and reveals that one of the girls has been killed.
• The group of friends- in order to establish that there are strong relationships between the girls and that they trust each other, which is one of the key themes in the film as the girls have to trust each other to complete the challenges so that they can escape.
• The pictures of the lift- to present the main idea of the horror film.
• The knife with the blood- to foreshadow a painful and brutal death.
• The candle- to represent a tiny flicker of hope of escaping this dangerous and threatening situation.
• The staircase- the interior of the top of the tower to show how open it is and that there is nowhere to hide...

Mood boards are a great way to present ideas on because they allow the audience to create their own interpretation of our ideas, and to connect with our ideas through the emotions that may be created by some of the images. For example, the blood on the knife creates a mood of horror and brutality, which the audience could be shocked and scared by. The audience could then begin to understand the narrative and genre of the film, and then begin to picture what some of the scenes might consist of, so taking the example of the knife again, they could imagine a scene where a character kills another character.