Planning- Mood Board

 Welcome back to yet another blog everyone!

  So, on today's blog we'll be making something really fun and exciting-a mood board! Basically to give you an basic idea of what a mood board is, a mood board is a digital or physical board in which you display inspiration, colors, shots, ideas, props through images that overall create a cohesive mood. This mood and vibe that you create should give insight on the colors, key scenes and emotions that you wanna capture with your media in your film.

  Before starting my mood board, I wanted to get an idea oh how people go about, it  how they look like and what tools, or media people refer to in order to best get across their idea. I did some searches and came across a really helpful youtube video that introduced me to this other website called FrameSet. This website gave a ton of shots and images that involved different color patterns and moods. And to get specific you can even input settings curated to things you want to see like the type of shot and colors and vibe which I thought was super helpful. To just layout my mood board, I went ahead and decided on using Canva because it easily allows me to drop in all my images and I am familiar with the software.

Link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoLOZuTu8FI

Final Mood Board

  Now that I made my mood board, I want to let you guys in on why I picked these as my inspiration. The mood I was trying to create with my board is a, melancholy, heartwarming mood as I wanted to capture the happiness of the couples relationship, but use choices in color to symbolize that internal sadness of the situation at hand as the relationship would end later in the film. To show this I used warm colors such as orange and golden tones to capture the youthfulness and happiness felt within the two characters and tones of purple and blues to showcase the unescapable sadness as it might come to an end due to the main characters fears. The shadows on the characters in the sunset moments can symbolize the state of their relationship as it is hidden and kept a secret and not brought out into the "light". This is further shown through the constant messages and use of phone that I also included.

  To bring out South Asian elements into my opening I also want to implement scenes of typical scenarios seen in south asian households like making "chai" or tea as well as cooking with spices, vegetables, meat and pairing it up with "naan" which is a special type of bread. These are some staple practices within the culture and key elements that contrast to the normalized western culture in America. To showcase the family and the main characters life I want to also try to include a family dinner which is more towards the end of my film that sets the scene of these "pressures" but also shows how family is a big dynamic that plays in the culture.

So now that you guys have a better understanding of the mood and atmosphere I wanna create for my film opening, I hope you guys will enjoy watching the process of how I make this mood board come to life. This board has helped me get a better understanding on what I want to see in my film and even proved how colors do in fact make a huge impact on the feeling audiences get. Through editing and other parts of mise-en scene I aim to achieve these colors and shots.