Mood boards
The mood boards show thriller/crime well due to the backgrounds and a lot.
All images in this mood board give a sense of danger and threat upon the genre. The background being so
hard and gloomy in several of the images shows how it is mysterious and
unpredictable. We used a variety of images to show how we would like our film to be and ideas that have
inspired us and that not all crime films have the same locations or settings. They are a variety of
crime/thrillers, all these photos have helped us decide how we would like our film and which kind of things to
include however we would like to make ours more based in the countryside.
This mood is inspired by crime TV series that we watch. Both Vera and Death in paradise is shown on this
mood board as influences and ideas that we would want to incorporate. The main one being Vera's setting of
countryside. Eventually in our film there would be the police tape up but for the opening we're filming it
wouldn't quite get that far in to have it appear. They are both crimes where there are people going missing and
mysteries going on all of the time. From watching these two programmes we looked at the kind of shots they
focused on. From Vera, which is the one that influenced more, we saw there was a lot of shots that had the
background in to help acknowledge the setting and location because the background is a key way to bring the
audience into the kind of environment it'll be set into.
These pictures are clearly from horror films and yet you keep insisting you're doing a crime thriller! They are very different genres! For me there are several things you can draw from your mood board. Locations seem to include lots of creepy dark houses shot at a low angle to place both characters and audience in a position of weakness. The scary characters are often pictured using direct address which again makes the audience feel that they are coming for us. There is one shot in a bathtub suggesting that we can be terrorised when we are at our most vulnerable (Nos Feratu coming up the stairs works in the same way). Both silhouettes are separated from the audience as being not one of us-either small or hunched and therefore not normal. The silhouettes add mystery as do the masks. I think we all find masks creepy because they are expressionless or at least their one fixed expression seems very fake. Combine that with the fact that they are often clowns or dolls and that makes them very sinister.
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