Moodboard.

This is the moodboard i created with my group. It portrays the key concepts we decided to use for out trailer and also the different elements that we wanted to include in it. The 5 concepts we wanted to include in our trailer were: fear, a 'twisted' genre, scary music, the theme of Christmas and also fantasy.

I think we have portrayed fear well with a use of image that represent fear, for instance we have the noticebale image of a child who looks scared and seems to be hiding behind something. We also have images of strange creatures and monsters aswell as inconic horror movie killers. These are all associated with the genre of horror and therefore create the idea of fear.

I think the idea we had a of twisting the genre also comes across well in the moodboard. That's because we have images in it which usually you would not think would go together. For example, we have an image of Santa Claus yet his facial expression is quite evil and menacing. This is twisiting the idea because Santa is not usually associated with being evil but rather being good.

The theme of Christmas is developed well in the mood board by the Christmas related images used. For instance the name of the film itself is 'Silent Night' which is of course a famous Christmas song and this is decorated with Christmas lights on the mood board. There are also other references with holly and Christmas trees scattered around the paper.

The concept of fantasy was shown well in the mood board with the references to other films. In particular these are 'Donnie Darko' and 'Pans Labyrinth'. We decided to use pictures of the famous and iconic characters and used the strange creatures featured in both movies; the rabbit from Donnie Darko and the 2 monster-like creatures from Pans Labyrinth.

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Overall, I think we have made an interesting and effective mood board and i think we successfully but across our concepts about the trailer as a whole.