This is the mood-board page, mood boards are a perfect way of getting an overall vision. Its also helpful to look at, if you ever go off course. The main reason why we do mood-boards is because it helps us with ideas.
- Make up
- Poster and magazine
- Antagonist
- Location
- Weapons
- Protagonist
- Costume
This is a make up mood-board which was made to explore the different types of makeup used in horror movies and illustrates different make up ideas that we find interesting and would like to incorporate these ideas into my trailer. what particularly stands out for me is: blood, cuts, and bruises . Blood is a very iconic to a lot of horror movies and its specific to our slasher genre.
Photo shop skills that i have used is blending tool and changing the image colour to black and white because i wanted to go for the typical horror theme colours.
Photo shop skills that i have used is blending tool and changing the image colour to black and white because i wanted to go for the typical horror theme colours.
This is my poster and magazine mood-board. For the magazine i used several different types of magazines layout which i felt was effective. for example, the 'Fangoria' magazine placed on the top left corner of the mood board illustrates how our horror magazine may look like. I like the fact that the magazine follows convention such as placing masthead on the top of the page, uses coverlines and selling lines. I also like how a close up /mid shot photo was used because it allows the audience to focus on the image and know the sub-genre of it. i also incorporated movie poster as well . I particularly like the 'Carrie' poster and the layout of it .
i wanted to use as many photoshop techniques as possible such as: blending tool, rubber and changing the opacity of the picture, however, i didn't want the picture to look too dark, so instead i used high key lighting.
i wanted to use as many photoshop techniques as possible such as: blending tool, rubber and changing the opacity of the picture, however, i didn't want the picture to look too dark, so instead i used high key lighting.
This is a slasher moodboard. The pictures featured below are super-typical of slasher films, e.g. a sharp weapon, more often than not covered in blood, dark surrounds like a forest or an alley, a villain with a concealed identity, etc. They do not show emotion and if they do, they often display aggression and anger, sarcasm or are sinister.
in recent meeting we all had different concepts on what our antagonist should look like, i put together our different thoughts and opinions of our ideal image of what the antagonist should look like. In the the movie "chainsaw", that we watched , because it relates to our horror sub-genre(slasher), we thought that the portrayal of the antagonist was interesting. For example, the mask the killer was wearing looked scary and different so, we agreed to try and incorporate aspects of the antagonist in chainsaw and try and recreate it in our own way when making our trailer, poster and magazine.
in recent meeting we all had different concepts on what our antagonist should look like, i put together our different thoughts and opinions of our ideal image of what the antagonist should look like. In the the movie "chainsaw", that we watched , because it relates to our horror sub-genre(slasher), we thought that the portrayal of the antagonist was interesting. For example, the mask the killer was wearing looked scary and different so, we agreed to try and incorporate aspects of the antagonist in chainsaw and try and recreate it in our own way when making our trailer, poster and magazine.
Settings moodboard: This is a setting mood board, it was done to show all the possible location that we are going to use within our trailer. For example, bathroom, corridor, playground etc. Setting is really important as it represents the context and environment in which a situation is set; the background. It is the time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place. personally i would say the setting gives a better sense to the reader as it allows you to visualize it better while creating a mood at the same time. Making this mood board has enabled me to be aware of the types of location we might use for our horror trailer inside or outside of college.
Weapons: This represents the different types of weapons that are possibly going to be used within the horror trailer for example, a knife ,gun, chainsaw etc. a mixture of low key lighting and high key was used in this mood-board. these weapons are iconic to horror movies especially slasher films .Most of these weapons were inspired by horror movies that we all have watched.
Protagonist: This mood-board contains more female than male characters , this is because in horror movies women are more likely to be the protagonist. Also women are represented as emotional and scared, hence why i used a picture of a woman holding her head and of a woman on the phone screaming.
Some of the women are blonde this connotes that they're dumb, more likely to come in contact with the killer and find themselves in a stock situation as they don't have the knowledge to get away from the killer fast enough. However in this case the protagonist are the hero of the film; the one left to tell the story.These women support the characteristic of the ' The fine girl' theory which is: 'investigating conciseness'.
Some of the women are blonde this connotes that they're dumb, more likely to come in contact with the killer and find themselves in a stock situation as they don't have the knowledge to get away from the killer fast enough. However in this case the protagonist are the hero of the film; the one left to tell the story.These women support the characteristic of the ' The fine girl' theory which is: 'investigating conciseness'.
This is a costume mood-board on what the characters are going to be wearing. costume is really an important aspect within a movie as it defines who the characters are.The picture on the right is of a black hoodie this is what the antagonist may consider wearing. The use of black symbolizes death and evil.
Secondly the picture on the left and bottom is the the types of clothes the victims will be wearing. seeing as the victims are going to me young teenagers the sort of clothes they will wear is: jeans ,tops or school uniform.
Secondly the picture on the left and bottom is the the types of clothes the victims will be wearing. seeing as the victims are going to me young teenagers the sort of clothes they will wear is: jeans ,tops or school uniform.