Mindmap & Moodboard

It is important to be aware of the film before creating a set design. I intend to do enough research to gain ideas of how the set may look. Firstly, I ensured I knew what the film was actually about before gaining ideas. Therefore, I watched Little Shop of Horrors so I could become familiar of the storyline and also note down the historic detail. I could also write down what shows the film is set in a 1950 New York theme. This helped me gain knowledge and I will be using this to make a mood board for inspiration and visualising historic detail.



-:Moodboard:-

A mood board is often an illustrated poster created by designers working in various creative industries to help them or their client develop a specific theme or style. This is done by combining images that has features or colour that the client is interested in. The outcome of a mood board is a collage which enables them to determine how they want their final product to look. Also the client can analyse the mood board and decide whether they like the main concept the board signifies. 
As my task was to create a mood board for 1950's New York I collected images from search engines on the internet such as Getty images and Google. The reason why I used these research tools was because it was efficient and I can quickly recognise information on New York in 1950. For best results, it was important to pick out specific key words which are relevant for the mood board. Therefore I searched phrases such as cobble streets and decaying wood work. These words were selected from the mind map to help me select images.
Looking through the images I noticed the visual mood for 1950 New York was poverty and made aware of how life was for the working class people. Also, the colours were dull and uninteresting meaning life was often unhappy due to poverty. I could see from the images that buildings were poorly built as they contained cracks and dirt. The images I selected to be included in my mood board were chosen as they gave me inspiration on how the set design would be visualised.