Mood Board

We have gathered together a selection of images to simulate our chosen genre of psychological horror with a hint of gore. To this we researched images from leading horror films of the same hybrid horror genre, to construct a sense of the visuals we hoped to achieve in our own horror film, Blank.

The three images of a man looking out a window and a person behind him, the children’s eyes scratched out and the “you could have saved him” text are all taken from The Woman In Black (2012). These all portray an eerie feel which is something we want to recreate in our own trailer. The children add to the unsettling feel as it feels as if innocence is being corrupted by the horror of the images. The Woman In Black is generally a great evocation of the features we are aiming to show in our trailer and will be a huge influence on the decisions we make. 

The image of the shadow on the ground is definitely one that we felt would fit in well in our trailer. We are planning to base it on the "Slender Man” character defined in a recent, viral video game. The lengthened shadows illustrates the evil character's presence and dominance over other characters. 

We are planning to create a psychological trailer with a hint of gore so the image with the blood running from the eye and the greying corpse in the top right corner are great likenesses to the amount of gore we would like to include; it shows our trailer is a hybrid genre without overloading it with unnecessary body horror. 

Two of these pictures are set in woods which is where we would like to set part of our narrative. This creepy location is a typical generic convention of horror movies, and fitting to generic conventions (as stated in “Hollywood Genres,” the 1980 book written by Thomas Schatz) is vital to creating a successful film.

The picture of the elderly lady with whitened eyes is from the psychological horror film The Others. We included this because it again represents the genre we want to portray. We were particularly drawn to her glazed over white eyes and thought we could perhaps include this effect in our own main character of “Blank” (our representation of "Slender Man").

Overall, our mood board displays various aspects of our psychological/gory sub-genre which we can take ideas from and develop on them to produce a memorable film trailer. Our aim is that it will indeed fulfil the origins of horror - the Latin word “horrere” which translates as "to shudder." If we make our audience shudder with our trailer, we will have created a successful piece of practical work.