Mood Board

Mood Boards

My group decided that to make sure we were all on the same page regarding how our project was going to look and to be able to convey our view to other people, it would be beneficial to create mood boards for our project. A mood board is “a type of collage consisting of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition. They may be physical or digital, and can be extremely effective presentation tools.” -Wikipedia. We decided to make two mood boards, one for the part of the scene which takes place inside of the mental asylum and another mood board for the part of the scene which takes place in the patients head. We thought it smart to separate the scene in too two mood boards as to make our presentation of the idea more understandable because we feared that if we had all our research cramped in too one mood board it could obfuscate the person we were presenting too.

This is the mood board which was created by perry and I. We did the mood board for the part of the scene which takes place in the head of the patient. We used a black background on the mood board because that is what it is going to look like in the head of the patient, we think that the dark inside of the head will contrast with the white room in the mental asylum, darkness also has several connotations which would fit very well for the feel we are trying to achieve with this part of the scene, such as evil, mysterious, frightening, unknown, it does not have many good positive connotations behind which is good because we are trying to show that what is happening is not normal and is not good. We also added the text “NIGHTMARE” to the mood board to represent that what the patient is seeing in his head is like nightmare, a nightmare is a frightening or unpleasant dream, so having the text “NIGHTMARE” on the mood board helps explain the connotations that we want this part of the scene to make the audience think of. On the mood board at the top you can also see a women which is red, this is how we want the character (figure of the patients imagination) in the patients head to look like, because the connotations behind a women is normally innocence but when she is red it switches it completely because one of the connotations behind red is that it represents evilness and that paired with the black background creates the perfect evil imagined character. The other images bellow are other ways we could make the character in the patients head look for example in black and white and distorted visually to make it look abnormal and scary, because when something is different from the way its supposed to be it can look frightening if done well. When creating this mood board we also though about the makeup which the character would have to be wearing, for example the person in the bottom image, is wearing dark colours and has dark hair but her face has been made very white with the help of make up so that it would stand out and the viewer would be automatically to this persons face and we decided that we want to do the same thing to the caricature in our project. In conclusion I believe that in this mood board we have successfully been able to convey what we envisioned for this part of the scene, which is an evil and abnormal looking character which will frighten the audience and show that what the patient is seeing in his head is not good an not normal.

This is the mood board which was created by Indie and Zell, they were in charge of the mood board which focused on the part of the scene which takes place in the mental asylum. To fit with the idea, which starts off with a dolly shot down a corridor, Indie and Zell have added a photo of what we envisioned the corridor to look like (image in top left corner), the corridor is long, clean, has flickering lights on the ceiling and is empty; we also wanted the floor of the corridor to be checkered with black and white tiles which is why Zell and Indie added a photo of this on the bottom row to the left of the word “HELP” to help convey our vision. Another photo which they added was a photo of a girl in a straight jacket, they have added this because this is what we want the patient in the scene to wear, because it shows for sure that the scene is taking place in a mental asylum and that the asylum is controlling the patient and making it impossible for him to resist against what they do to him. Indie and Zell have also inserted a photo of a patient in a white cushioned room (photo in the top row to the right of the photo of the eye), this is what we want the room where the patient is, to look like, we want this because when we were brainstorming different ideas for what a mental asylum could look like, this is one of the first things that came to everyone’s mind and so they added it to the mood board in hope that the consumers would see the photo and automatically link it with a mental asylum as well. Finally another photo which Indie and Zell have added to this mood board is a photo of a hospital bead (to the right of the moodpboard under the word NIGHTMARE). this is what we have decided that we want our patient to be on in the padded room because once again it makes it clear to the audience that its taking place in an asylum, we also want the sheets and the pillow on the bed to look dirty as if they had not been washed in a very long time to make it appear that the patients in this mental asylum are not being taken care of well.

Minute Meeting’s

Minute Meeting’s 

Minute Meeting 5 — Wed/3/Dec/14

What have you done?:

Today we began the process of creating our storyboard’s for our thrillers. Perry was not here today so we decided to split our story board into three parts with 5 different frames per person to do. Indie was going to take care of the first 5 frames of the mood board which was the first half of the psychiatric ward part of the sequence and Zell would do the next 5 frames in the scene, the second half of the part of the sequence which takes place in the psych ward. Finally I (Lucas) would do the last 5 shots of the opening sequence which takes place in the main characters head. We only did the planning of how we were going to do the storyboards and did not actually get to drawing the storyboards them selves.

Targets?:

The target which our group has is to complete our storyboards and then meet up and look it over to make sure that it well portrays our views and how we want the final product to look, and then finally get them uploaded to our blogs.

Good vs Bad:

Good: We organised ourselves well and attributed the amount of work equally.

Bad: Perry was not there so it resulted in more work having to be done per person which may result in the whole process of creating the storyboards to take longer.

Mood Board – Minuit Meeting 4

What have you done? (be detailed to your group)

Today we began the process of creating a mood board. Indie and Zell worked on creating a mood board for the location and the characterization and Lucas and Perry began creating a mood board of images which relate to the activity going on inside the patients head.  

Targets? Individual/group

By creating a mood board we wanted to have a focus point for all of our inspirational ideas. We all realised that we envisioned the opening sequence slightly differently so we thought that it might  benefit the group to combine all of our ideas so that we could share the same vision.

Good vs Bad (what went well/badly and why?)

We managed to combine our ideas so that we could all share the same vision. We had so many visual ideas that it was easy to organize our images.

It was difficult to find specific images to represent what we wanted for example we found it difficult to find an image of the hospital bed which we wanted to use.

MINUTE MEETING 3

What have you done?

Today we did a test shoot for our thriller. This helped us see what shots would and would not work and even though we weren't using proper technical equipment we could see how we would film it using the location sheet and story board we planned. We filmed in the corridor and the upstairs hurtwood common room because we felt that this reflected the right conditions for when we actually film. e.g.  common room (house, homely)

Targets? Individual/ group

Our targets are to stick to the story board sheet more so we know exactly what we are doing and we can plan everything in advance.

Individual targets: For us all to keep switching roles and everything there is to be done eg for us all to film and for us all to plan not just stick to specific roles.

Good Vs Bad (What went well/ badly and why?)

What went well was using what we had for example making use of the torches we had on our phone and using the locations to the full extent so it looked realistic e.g. filming in common upstairs hurtwood had an attic feel.

What went badly was not sticking to our time plan and always referring back to our location sheet/ story board.

Minute Meeting  2

In our group we planned which locations we would be filming the concept idea for our thriller in within school grounds.

We aimed to find out how which shots we would be filming, where and to improve and expand on the concept of our opening sequence idea. I was trying to think about what shots could increase the tension in our thriller.

Perhaps because of the concept of our idea it was hard for us to add shots to increase tension without making our clip like a horror, but we found there are a few ideal locations in the school to get the footage we need, and we planned more on which shots we would do and in what sequence, as well as some of the details of the opening sequence (ie smashed photos on walls). 

Perry, Zel, Lucas & Indie

Thriller Notes – Minuit Meeting 1

What have you done? (be detailed to your group)

Targets? Individual/group

Good vs Bad (what went well/badly and why?)

Minuit Meeting 1:

       - What have you done? (be detailed to your group)

We have discussed the intended location of the shots

We began to create our shot list for Thursday’s rough shoot

We discussed how were were to organize our minuit meetings 

Targets? Individual/group

Brainstorm for the rest of the shotlist

Good vs Bad (what went well/badly and why?)

We didn’t achieve as much as we wanted to achieve 

We came up with a wide range of new and improved ideas.

Test Shoot

Thriller test shoot

Has your idea translated well to film? Have you made a thriller?

Once we incorporate edits and music it will be a lot more thrilling

Club scene not thrilling but with edits can be

The fact that its Halloween is thrilling

Yes our ideas have translated well to film

Is the pace the right length?

for the party shots, the length of the shots are too long

the corridor shot is a good length

Is your idea clear to a viewer?

- it’s a simplistic idea which is clear to the viewer

Has tension been created?

- the corridor shot is full of tension however at the moment the party scene needs editing and music to create tension

Have the angles and camera movement you used work? Or could they be developed?

A wider range of camera angled to build tension in the party shots needed

Need a range of shots to pick up the pace

Do you need to add or take away anything from your test shoot?

we need to add more shots to the party section

we need more diverse shots for the drug section

we need to add music and lighting

What hasn’t worked, and or could be developed further?

The amount of tension created needs to increase 

We need to develop a wider range of camera angles to make the thriller more thrilling. 

Need to develop more of a buildup

What has worked well? And why?

the corridor shot worked well, the introduction to the party scene worked well (girl+boy)

the strobe lighting worked well