Final Project Mood Board

 

The mood board I made for our mystery/horror movie opening encapsulates the main aesthetics and plot we decided to show. To begin with, the ambiance of my storyboard reflects of the saturation the film opening will deploy. It won’t be high key lighting as we are going for something dark and heavy, so the lighting has to be lowkey and dark to reflect that atmosphere. Furthermore, my mood board shows the setting of a forest that is significant to our plot and where we want our characters to be put into to isolate them from the outside world. A main part of this story is to have a missing person so the “murder” headline, the missing person posters, and the red lines connecting to each other is a nod to those themes that will be portrayed in our movie opening.

Additionally, one of the images in the mood board is a man in a mask. Which will be apart of the clothing/accessories one of the characters will wear to induce fear and create suspense over the identity. We want the mask to look eery and uncanny. Next, a picture has a man holding an axe. The man is in a dark forest setting which is what we are going for to create tension and we all where talking about including a prop such as a axe in a scene for which the murderer/kidnapper to use. Finally, we also discussed the usage of pills/drugs that one of the characters struggled with in the past (so essentially a flashback scene) to show details about why they went missing and why things unfolded the way they did.