Pre-Production: Moodboard

To prepare for our thriller, we created a moodboard consisting of the main elements that inspired us.

We discovered various different photos on the Internet considering similar props, costumes, makeup and set design. We made a moodboard to arrange and evoke our ideas more clearly of what we visually had in mind. For example, the costumes that inspired our sequence suitably would be a smart, light suit as this familiarises the audience with a stereotypical spy. The makeup designs we considered for our male character included deep bruises, cuts and scrapes across his face to portray he’s previously been beaten up.

We similarly looked at the set design and props and considered which door to use, for instance, we thought about using a heavy-duty door; we want to use this, as the male character will have no way of breaking down a heavy, metal door. Conveniently we researched hard, weighty padlocks, additionally considering a padlock the protagonist would not be able to easily break.

For our props, as we are using keys, we researched possible yale keys as well as old keys and consider which is more tolerable. Equivalently we looked at inspiration for the way we will also present them.