Exercise: Making a Moodboard

Moodboard


   For my next exercise it was to create a Moodboard here is the brief:

'Choose one word from the previous exercises. Collect swatches of colour and texture or create your own palette of colours and repertoire of marks. Google some of the words and from the images link, either print off or draw from some of the images that emerge. Go through other books and magazines and take snippets of images, which have associations with your words and themes.

'You are not creating a piece that is a designed artefact in it own right. You may want to incorporate words into you moodboards as an aide-memoire.'  


   So I decided to pic 'wild' and I'm really looking for to creating my moodboards around this word, so where to start....

   I have never created a Moodboard before and recently all the exercises I have been given is creating new skills for me, First I looked as a few links that talked about moodboards and what should be included in them for some reading research and how to create one (links will be in the bibliography at the bottom of the screen), Then I decided just to do a double page spread research on different kinds of moodboards out there for e.g. Digital style and Art (cut and paste)



   These images are just from a general google search and haven't really got a pinpoint source. These images are all different in a good way, some have a colour scheme to them, and others have a general theme to them like the pop are one on the left page in the bottom corner, all these images gave me some inspiration for my Moodboard which is the image below: 



   So create my Moodboard I gathered images from google search mostly and scrolled through at what images the word 'wild' brought up, and I also collected old magazine like Hello Magazine where I got the blow up animal images and Celeb photos from and the gigantic hand which in my opinion fits very well with the theme and I was lucky to come across such a unique photo to use in my Moodboard. I also used a felt cloth from a phone protector kit as the yellow square to add some texture to the Moodboard and wild flowers.

16th June 2017


  In my feedback from my last Assignment 1 (which I haven't talked about but I will do a spread on it before I do the main Assignment 2) my tutor liked the fact that I am willing to try new techniques so I decided that I want to create a few digital moodboards to help develop my digital creative side.  

Photographs by Danielle Johnson


   So here is my first digital Moodboard and I used Canva.com to help with the layouts. I used my own Photographs of wild flowers which I had taken in Kalami Corfu, Greece when I was on holiday in 2012. I decided to use a vivid colour palette for this Moodboard which you can see in all the flowers that they are rich vivid colours. Next I will create a wild animal Moodboard as seen below:

    

   I used mainly googled images for this Moodboard but the Rhino Photograph in the left hand corner was taken by me. I tried to used a more 'Safari' colour palette for e.g. Oranges, Browns, Creams. which I think works well with the images I have chosen for this particular Moodboard, again I used Canva.com to help with the layout.

   For my final Moodboard I decided to take a very different approach to the word wild and go for 'wild Celeb' theme (the celebs appear in my hand made Moodboard) as seen below: 



   The images I used for this Moodboard are general images when I typed in 'wild celebs' in google search. I used a classic black and white colour palette which I feel fits this Moodboard well, again I used Canva.com for the layout and uploaded my images that I got from google.


Reflection


   Looking back on creating this Moodboard I feel like I have gotten a lot out of learning this skill and I will use it in future exercise's. I feel that it has helped with my creative thinking and I've been able to explore different technique with creating them by using both hand made and digitally made boards. I have spotted links by creating my first Moodboard that was hand made, I decided then I wanted to split them up into themes and create separate moodboards for each of themes I picked. Overall I am happy with this exercise.

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