Mood Board

Despite having quite a clear idea in my head about what I want for my final piece, I wanted to create a mood board to try and capture and collect images from other films and pictures that truly encapsulate my idea before I put anything down on paper. I decided to make a Pinterest account; I used Pinterest for my GCSE Art Final Piece and I found it to be an efficient and effective way of sparking ideas and incorporating different elements into my own piece. I've created a pin board called 'AS Media Final Piece' and within it, I have 'pinned' pictures of other horror and thriller movie posters (such as The Shining, Taken, The Purge, Se7en etc), as well as typical 'horror' imagery that I found on the site. My idea at the moment is roughly about a girl who's missing and her best friend is trying to find her; this is where the thriller elements are based. Then in the first scene, we see the girl lying on the floor of what appears to be a garage, covered in blood and we discover that she's been kidnapped and that her kidnapper has cut her open - revealed by fresh wounds on her abdomen - for unknown purposes (graphic, I know!). This is where most of the horror elements come in. It's important for me to get the balance right and that's also why I created the mood board so I could balance images from each genre and place them next to each other, combine different aspects and elements and see what works.