Film Opening Mood board and Storyboard

 Week 3

    This is the final post for Week 3. There was a lot of progress to the story this week, with the storyboard being written up, a mood board for our character, and film ideas fleshed out. I think a lot of the success this week goes to the group meetings. Being able to speak freely with fellow classmates about our project aided in finding what will work and will not. This post will focus mainly on the storyboard and mood board Camila and I worked to create. 

 We stuck with the story Camila had thought up about drug addiction. As seen in the storyboard, it will be focused on a young girl who is addicted to heroin. The film opening will begin by showing how she was once a normal girl, but heroin made her lose that innocence. As she gets ready to inject herself with the heroin, she winces in pain.

The scene then shows her gain courage to drug herself. Once she does, the camera will portray how the character is feeling at the moment. The once strict and uniform camera movement will become looser and calmer, showing how the character feels under the influence of the drugs. The scene then fades to black, synonymous with how the lead becomes unconscious and there is where the title screen will appear. 

    We have yet to think of a title that would fit for our story, but it will likely work with the narrative and the "numbness" of the black background. The character wakes up once she hears her mother calling her from outside the bathroom, once she walks in, she finds out what her daughter has done. The story lets the audience understand that the rest of the movie will show our characters road to recovery, as her mother found out.

    The storyboard will likely be fleshed out a little more but it is for the most part complete. Our character on the other hand, is still somewhat in the works. Camila and I have created a mood board of certain characteristics we want our character to have. 

    Breaking down the mood board, we can see there are several instances of hopeless, drug-addicted, women. Jane Margolis from Breaking Bad is a key character that will contribute to the making of our character. She was once a regular girl but heroin caused her think irrationally and eventually die from it's use. Her father, an air-traffic controller, became so distraught that he incidentally caused two planes to crash into each other. This is a message on how the use of drugs and it's consequences to one person can cause another to feel grief and affect them and others on in a negative way. 

    Another important part of this mood board are the colors. They are obviously cold and dark. As discussed before, drama relies heavily on the use of color and light to tell the emotional part of a story. The sad and hopeless colors chosen will help portray the loneliness and hopelessness our character feels.

    The use of visual elements like storyboards and mood boards aids in displaying thoughts so you can see them right in front of you. The elements discussed above will be implemented into the film opening Camila and I are working on.

         

Sources:

"Phoenix” Breaking Bad. Written and directed by Vince Gilligan, season 2, Sony Pictures, 2009.

DigitalSynopsis.com. “Color Palettes from Famous Movies Show How Colors Set the Mood of a Film.” Digital Synopsis, 16 Apr. 2019, https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/cinema-palettes-famous-movie-colors/.

Ruggeri, Kyle. “Why Drug Addicts Are Always in the Bathroom.” SoberDogs, SoberDogs, 10 May 2021, https://soberdogs.com/why-drug-addicts-are-always-in-the-bathroom/.

Spencer, Ryan. “Film Moodboards.” Ryan's A2 Media Coursework, http://rsa2media.weebly.com/film-moodboards.html.