Mood Board

Here is a mood board we constructed to show all of our research on different films and ideas that we have come up with. Its useful to extract important images from the types of films we've been looking at to inspire our own. We feel that these pictures capture the emotion from the films showing main scenes and also the film's advertising posters.

We took pictures from 'one hour photo', 'the omen', 'fatal attraction', 'Haunting in Connecticut', 'Silence of the lambs', 'The hills have eyes' and 'Obsessed'.

From the pictures gathered we can see the most appropriate psychotic figure would be either an older male, middle aged female/young female, or a child. For our film we we're thinking or a boyfriend or mother figure (or someone who has a close connection with the protagonist) to be the psycho.

The lighting in most of these pictures is very effective, look how Hannibal Lecter in the bottom left hand corner has lighting from below and behind him to give a frightening look about him. His eyes and face look dark compared to the rest of him. The picture of Damien from 'The Omen' shows him standing in front of hundreds of graves showing he is in control of evil.

Some of the characters however, look like victims in themselves. Sye from 'One hour photo' seems scared and alone in the pictures and in a way the audience feels sorry for them. In 'Fatal Attraction' the audience cant help but feel sorry and sympathy for 'Alex' in some parts of the film. I feel this is what makes a good psychotic character.