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.
Genre Moodboard
Genre is any category of literature, music or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones is discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.
The genre of short film differs from traditional film genres as it is a genre of film in itself, but also has a sub genre or an underlined theme within it. The sub genre chosen for our film was social realism, a genre which has become widely poplar due to the works of the critically acclaimed productions Adulthood and Kidulthood. Social realism refers to the work of filmmakers who draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and the poor. This is a consistent theme within all of the films shown above.
Location Moodboard
In film making, a location is any place where a film crew will be filming actors and recording their dialog. A location where dialog is not recorded may be considered as a second unit photography site. Filmmakers often choose to shoot on location because they believe that greater realism can be achieved in a "real" place; however, location shooting is often motivated by the film's budget. It is important to create a moodboard for location because it provides information on what the sites being film at would typically look like
Theme Moodboards
Theme gives layers of complexity to an otherwise simple story, while also unifying many script elements such as plot, characters, and dialogue. The theme of our film was drug addiction & poverty.
Props
Props, otherwise known as an aspect of 'Mise en Scene' was a very important aspect of our film and we wanted to have the audience gain recognition in the theme of mental illness that our film was about. In order to achieve this goal we had to gather insight into what a drug induced individual with mental illness problems looked like. Therefore our graphic designer, Tashika Bailey designed the moodboard above.
Camera Angles, Typography, Colour Scheme & Mise En Scene
These are the four moodboards that I've created for us to use for inspiration when designing our film poster.
The first moodboard focuses on camera angles. I gathered a number of images with camera angles that are similar to the ones in our short film. In our short film we've used close ups, extreme close ups, mid shots and more therefore we might use one of these camera angles as the main image on our film poster.
The second moodboard that I've created empathizes typography and fonts. I've included different types of fonts such as serif (Helvetica) and sans serif (French Script MT). These are the possible fonts that we might use on our film poster. I have also included visually creative typography for example, The Lion King poster, where the text is placed in a silhouette of an image that represents an element from the film. Instead of just boring fonts, I've included some eye catching designs that have a similar theme to our shirt film. We could take inspiration from these designs and incorporate them into our design.
The penultimate moodboard focuses on mise-en-scene. This is a broad category that includes most of the elements in our short film that could be featured on our film poster. The mise-en-scene moodboard consists of similar props, costume and location to the ones in our short film.
The last moodboard displays the different types of colour schemes that we might feature on our film poster. There are different shades of blue, a pastel colour scheme, brights colours, dark colours etc.
The first moodboard focuses on camera angles. I gathered a number of images with camera angles that are similar to the ones in our short film. In our short film we've used close ups, extreme close ups, mid shots and more therefore we might use one of these camera angles as the main image on our film poster.
The second moodboard that I've created empathizes typography and fonts. I've included different types of fonts such as serif (Helvetica) and sans serif (French Script MT). These are the possible fonts that we might use on our film poster. I have also included visually creative typography for example, The Lion King poster, where the text is placed in a silhouette of an image that represents an element from the film. Instead of just boring fonts, I've included some eye catching designs that have a similar theme to our shirt film. We could take inspiration from these designs and incorporate them into our design.
The penultimate moodboard focuses on mise-en-scene. This is a broad category that includes most of the elements in our short film that could be featured on our film poster. The mise-en-scene moodboard consists of similar props, costume and location to the ones in our short film.
The last moodboard displays the different types of colour schemes that we might feature on our film poster. There are different shades of blue, a pastel colour scheme, brights colours, dark colours etc.