Thriller Movie - Mood Board

Anotated Mood Board

With my mood board I tried to convey what I think when the genre ‘‘Thriller’’ comes to mind.

The different colour filters - black, greys and reds - give connotations and denotations accustomed to this colour and also imply the thriller genre in an objectified view point.

The black could be used to imply dark moods; dark practices, to hide things, to create mystery, or to introduce something unexpectedly resulting in a thrilling response (occasionally).

The red could be used to convey danger, blood, evil characters/atmosphere or harsh emotions such as anger.

I liked the colour filters I saw used in the opening sequence of the movie 'Vertigo' which we evaluated and I have adopted this into my own opening. I will be using a Black and White filter. I believe it will imply exactly what I’m aiming to convey to the audience. A cryptic feel of walking along in a cemetery through an illusion, either from a memory being revisited or a dream state and this displays an interesting dynamic being explored to open my film - as to grab the audience's attention.

I identified that the different Camera shots - especially close ups and extreme close ups - are mostly associated in indication and emphasis of facial expressions (eyes, mouth, hands) and sometimes body language (body trembling, shift of suspicion) when involved in a thriller movie. Another use for these camera movements is to convey mise-en-scene and imply on an object in a scene as example ''a gun'' in a thriller/action - to imply the importance that gun will play in the scene whether it is about to be used to kill someone or has killed shot someone.

The mood board was easy to create after the research I’d done on the thriller genre. I was able to generalize the main aspects of the genre and represent it on my board accordingly to how I felt the genre was all about.

I do believe that it was difficult to summarise everything however the summarisation I have done on the mood board is in my opinion effective enough to convey to the audience what my research has imprinted on me as the thriller genre.