Mood Board

 

This is our mood board which gives everyone a vague idea about what our film connotes, displaying the different aspects of each scene, character and location. The pictures aren't precise with our ideas for the opening two minutes; however we will be using similar characters and props. I have numbered the different pictures to help signify what photos I will be discussing and my reasoning for choosing them.

 

The first image has been placed on my mood board because it fits in with the horror/thriller theme, which is what our film is hopefully going to be portraying. The house looks damaged and old, despite the size, its not something you can picture a traditional family living in, which is why I have chosen it. It is mangled and falling down, but the size is perfect for what we want the antagonist to represent. It fits in with the stereotypes of a typical location for a thriller film with the enormous acres of land, but little decency within the building. It represents a male who has his minds on other things, which in our case, would be the girl he is looking to take, the distractions the male is going to represent is shown through the lack of care and delicacy taken on the house. The house doesn't feature any contemporary structures which fit in with the thriller codes and conventions because the history of the building is important to the basic ideology.

 

Image 2 represents the crime features of our film. This is a stereotypical image which is featured in a lot of crime related programmes and films. It enables the audience to view the complexity and the detail within the crime which is being presented with all the images. In our film we will use an over the shoulder shot, like what is displayed in the image. The pictures on the board will represent the girls the antagonist has taken, subtly hinting to the audience that the antagonist is not taking our protagonist spontaneously.

 

Image 3 represents the main action which takes place throughout the opening two minutes; we will have numerous shots, varying from tracking shot to long shots, of our protagonist running cutting between the different scenes. The continuity of the constant cuts will help increase the tension. Image 4 is a similar image to image 3 which helps highlight the importance of the running shots because it is what keeps the opening scene together, separating it from the fantasy aspect of a crime film, linking to reality.

 

Image 5 helps codify our genre of a crime film because it displays the policing side of an investigation, which recognises the obvious, which is that the antagonist commits the crime. The office sets aside a separate location which helps devise the opening two minutes in to separate places which initiates the different scenes.

 

Image 6 indicates the style of house we are using to locate an establishing shot in. It is a large, American-style house which represents wealth and purity with the cream painting. Having such a big house helps fit in with the stereotypes of a criminal’s behaviour.

 

Image 7 gives the viewers a brief idea of what sort of costumes will be involved, it is aimed at the antagonist as the large black boots represents the stereotypical idea of a disturbed farmer seeking for popularity and appearance. The low angle shot is a good indication in to what sort of shot we will be using in our opening scene, keeping the identity liminal.

 

Image 8 is a pivotal image which sums up the whole film, instantly, by taking a glance at the males face you can tell this sort of man is likely to be mentally challenged and very stereotypically paedophile, this is due to the stereotypes of which the society creates through their everyday life. The smirk distracts the audience from his criminal side and the clothing subverts to the stereotypes, side-tracking the audience in to thinking he is not the antagonist of the movie.

 

Image 9 displays another location of which the majority of the film will be shot in, the green area with the large trees drooping over a single pathway fits in with our creepy manor of our film. The same with image 10, which only slightly differs from image 9 because it is an open planned area, they are both locations which would be used when our protagonist is running. However the reasoning for how the differs is due to the open and closed planned areas and how they portray different emotions. The open planned area suggests freedom and how the protagonist is most likely to be safer because it has a larger surface area for more people to commute to. The closed area makes the protagonist more vulnerable because it is so secretive and discrete.