Hello world! I made a mood board for my horror film opening. I did this mood board to help expand my mind for what I'm going to do for film opening and the mood I would want to push out.
Mood Board
Here is my mood board. I used scenes from The Conjuring (since it is my main inspiration), and pictures from online. This was made on Canva through my school!
My film opening is horror genre based as it’s a genre I really love to experience and watch. I do like thrills and suspense horror movies. With that being said, I used mainly dark scenes, pictures, and tense features to emphasize the dark, low-key lighting I would like my horror film opening to have. Like stated before, The Conjuring directed by James Wan, is one of my favorite movies and my main inspiration for my film opening. The Conjuring is a classic horror film that contains the main features that most horror movies have as well which is why it makes it a great movie in my opinion. This is my inspiration because since it is a classic it uses many techniques that create a great horror film. For example, the conjuring contains many scenes with low key lighting, suspensive moments, and jump scares that will get be every time no matter what! I wish for my opening to be similar to these feature to create the best film opening I can do.
In my mood board I tend to use low-key lighting with pops of color like red and white to show a panic and suspenseful scene that the main character will be going through. For mise-en-scene of my film opening the setting will be a girl who is studying in the late hours of the night before a big test and sitting next to a sliding glass door that shows the dark backyard in the background. The costume that she will be wearing in comfortable house wear with a simple bun to show that she is comfortable and relaxing. The antagonist will be in all black with their face barely showing, to show that they might not be human and rather an entity or something unnatural. The props that will be used and shown are a computer, a notebook and pencil, keys, and a weapon that the antagonist will be using.
To connect everything together, I chose to use mainly low key lighting and dark scenes to continue the deep shadow and minimal, vulnerable light sources. The red and white coloring will be important to my film opening because the red will resemble danger and blood while the white represents the small lighting from the computer. As the protagonist is wearing comfortable house wear, it shows she is vulnerable which plays into the classic home invasion trope, while the antagonist is wearing all black and barely visible representing danger and the unknown. The setting is important to the film opening because the glass sliding door between the girl and the entity creates a boundary between safely and danger and let's jump scares to happen impactfully. The props like the keys will introduce the idea of a potential escape which can create tension. The mise en scene of the computer could be used to highlight the time of night and distract the girl, making her a easy target, and can also be the primary light source.
Reflection
This mood board has helped be connect visuals and ideas for my 2-minute film opening, as it has also helped create a foundation for my film opening. The mood board focuses mainly on the dark parts of horror movies like in The Conjuring, to create that suspension and fearful feeling for the audience. My film opening is planning to be mostly a isolated terror for the audience. The Conjuring in my main inspiration and I will, (and have) watched more moving directed by James Wan to help and continue to inspire me for further blogs and projects. (As I am writing this my cat is in my lap, lol!) I wished this blog was a bit longer but I hit all of the points I wished to talk about and explain. I have said this multiple times but I can't help but to say that horror movies are my favorite, (and now he's purring hehe) The mood board help me but my thoughts on paper and help express what I'm going for in my film opening.
Me after horror movies
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