Mood board

Film Mood Board Research

Mood boards are a way of bringing together different thought processes and brainstorm ideas. These will usually include photos, colour swatches, related items of interest and any notes that come to the designer at the time. These ideas will all help to focus a group of ideas into one and these images and notes can be reviewed and then edited and refined. 

Below is a mood board that someone has made, which is clearly do with suspense, romance, crime and gang movies. They have brought together different movies, and worked on looking at different shot sizes and angles to tell stories. You are able to feel the emotion through extra close ups of the characters eyes, intimidation in the shots where the characters are standing over the camera and we are looking up, romance in the black and white mid close up shot of two characters embracing each other from the side, and so on.

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Other mood boards for home ideas usually include colour swatches. Colour swatches are a good idea in film mood boards as you can match these colours to the emotion you want to feel in the film. In that way, they can help with costume design colours, the setting/environment, the time you film to create a certain mood and so on. Mood boards, like the one below, tend to be rough and fairly messy as they are a rough collection of ideas for development/prompting.

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In other areas, such as ideas for a tattoo studio, as seen in the image below, you can see that they have taken images of other studios that they like the look of and have put different elements together, which would then help in the creation of their own studio. They have included colour swatches at the bottom of the page, which all kind of match up with the colours in the images. As you can see they have put ideas up for signs, wall designs, decor, seats etc. Just because the images are there, doesnt mean that they will be used. Mood boards can be a selection and deletion process, but they are a good visual way of planning. They help you to see things for what they could be and help you to process the thoughts in your head from seeing something visually.

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In the mood board I will be designing, I will use a colour swatch palette (taking into account the colours from all of the location shots I will also be adding), clothing ideas and shot ideas. I will include shot sizes that we will be aiming to capture, such as extra close ups, close ups (to show emotion), high angle shots looking down or low angle shots looking up at a character (to show intimation). The mood board will help us to build and develop our ideas and give us pointers as what to film, whilst also helping with the locations and outfit decisions.