I have compiled images and quotes for my mood board below showing aspects of what inspires me and moves me.
Majority of these images and quotes relate to the dark side of stories; I have largely focused on twisted, dark fantasies, sinister beauty, oxymoronic words like "bittersweet" and "pretty ugly". Also, I have included images and quotes on the fear of being an outsider, confinement of oneself and isolation. It can be deduced from my mood board that there is a cliche of fairytales that I highlighted between good versus evil.
My original plan for the trailer was loosely based on the film "Tangled" infused together with an upcoming film, "Maleficent". Thus, I gathered research on a eerie and corrupt side of fairytales and drew much inspiration from iconic evil female antagonistic characters in Disney films; these included, Maleficent, Ursula, Cinderella's Stepmother, Evil Queen in Snow White and Gothel. Gothel is the main character I am concentrating on.
I also was inspired by Tyler Shields; he is a very controversial photographer who's work consists of bloody, violent, creative, twisted fantasies which still convey a message. They are simple yet striking. Moreover, I was influenced by unique musicians like Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey; both are individual in their sense of music and style, yet portray an intriguing, dark beauty. Literature was a huge influence over this piece after I read Grimm Fairy Tales and researched that Disney adapt their stories into huge films, suitable for their audiences. I researched quotes associated with creepy, spooky fantasies which perfectly convey my mood board. The Gothic era was massively encompassed in my mood board, as well as, fashion and make up.
I compiled my mood board on Keynotes and Photoshop to edit images to place on my mood board.
This mood board is a way in which my trailer can convey all these themes and be inspired by. It will help in deciding the many aspects of my trailer, including: setting, genre, music, shots and many more.
Nicole's Mood Board:
My mood board was inspired by many different aspects of the 'fairy tale' world. I believe in not only the fairy tale of living 'happily ever after', instead that a fairy tale is how you make it and how you want it to be.An example being a wedding of your dreams, one that you create it so it can become your fairy tale and in sense, your happily ever after!
I based the majority of my mood board upon characters of more modern stories defined at literal fairy tales. My definition of is expressed as good vs evil and how there is always a twist to the story, but the outcome is always positive. Fairy tales can also be conveyed in a game such as on the computer or played on the television where the story line of how the game is played cannot be real life, however it is played to try and defeat evil. Another similarity of how I got inspired by this mood board was Taylor Swift, her songs are very Country and yet she writes her own love songs and are in the theme of 'fairy tale' with a very modern twist to it. I laid out the mood board as a book - 'once a upon a time' as the introductory (like most fairy tale films) right through to 'and they lived happily ever after', with everything in the middle reading to how you want to portray it.
Whether you are a disciple of all things Pixar, or you cling to the idea that 2D, hand-drawn work will come back in style with much desperation, there’s no denying that Disney, in so many ways, shaped who we are today. Watching these movies as kids, and even as adults, we are transported into worlds where things are beautiful, where people are nice, and where even the most tense of situations will neatly wrap up with a cute, happy ending. And your Disney film of choice says more than you could think whilst watching a 1 hour and 30 minutes and contained our tiny little dreams. With what we are working on now, I believe it is possible for everyone to take a trip down memory lane, and this would be represented and achieved through a short teaser trailer.
My mood board above shows all the commercial characters in all of Disney’s creation. The upper half of the mood board are all the innocent characters compared to the bottom half of the mood board which shows all the villains created in Disney. Our aim is to add a little twist and modernize the original way a Disney film would be shown. The reason as to why I have shown all the villains in my mood board is because it would interesting to know why our villains became so mischievous and threatening. As a group, we decided to show a villains side of the story and how they became the way they did. The character that we are most interested in is ‘Gothel’ from the film ‘Tangled ‘. She is the evil step mother who uses her step daughter’s long, golden hair to keep young and youthful.
With our teaser trailer, our audience will be left off the edge of their seats, wanting to know who the character is and why she is so mysterious.
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