above is my initial mood board. I took a lot of inspiration from my partner's family's culture (pakistan) because i love how lively and colourful the patterns are from that part of the world.
I selected two images where the sea is a rainbow gradient, i thought that the two lovers could literally be from two different worlds which is why it doesn't look the same as our own. That's why ive also included pictures of space and aliens.
The colourful nature of this mood board creates a more lighthearted and happy tone. I thought that would be a good thing to do as the subject i am dealing with is quite serious and hard-hitting. I figured using aliens to approach the idea of racism and prejudice would be a good idea so that audiences can still watch it without feeling like it is a lecture or an attack.
I really like the idea of the alien world being vibrant and much more colourful than our own. I feel like the idea of them having a society much like our own would make the characters and their problems more relatable.
I feel like this moodboard is more optimistic and positive. that we can get along with everyone even if we look different.
My favourite picture for this is the one at the bottom with the two hands shaking but they merge into guns to shoot the other. that was quite a scary image, i interpreted it in a few ways: working with someone different only to betray them later, how some people are literally willing to hurt people purely on the grounds of their skin colour. I also interpreted it in another way.
Some months ago, someone told me that if i ever had kids with hamza i had to be careful as the child may struggle to find an identity. I knew they didnt mean it in a hurtful way but it hurt me to imagine my future child depressed because society is telling them that they dont fit in with the white kids and they also dont fit in with the brown kids.
This then lead me down a path of researching mixed race children to confirm or debunk my friends concerns. i shouldn't have let it bother me, but at the time, it did. i stumbled an came across a few articles and blogs which were quite horrific and backwards thinking. the people there were againt bi-racial couples and against the idea of them procreating. i remember one saying that if this 'trend' were to continue, it would eradicate a certain ethnic group (i cant remember which).
long story short, i eventually came across more positive articles and pushed the matter from my head. it wasn't until i saw this image where the experience came back to me. that's why i find the image very powerful, because i have an experience to attatch it to. the articles made me feel like my love for hamza was going to be detrimental to society and that i will be causing issues for any children that we have, surrounding myself with so much hate and repulsive opinions was not healthy and now that i think about it, i think that those people are sad, that they are missing out on so much if they are only willing to care and interact with things that are familiar to them. to isolate themselves from people who are different.
this moodboard is supposed to have the same message just in a different colour scheme but i feel that it has a more sinister tone to it than the previous one. the lack of colour sucks out the optimism and brings forth a more serious tone. although, this is a serious issue to be dealing with, i dont want it to be too overpowering and for the viewer to be overwhelmed with it all.
the viewer is not stupid, they'll be able to understand the story without it being put into black and white terms.
whilst i was putting these moodboards together, i had a sudden thought. the idea that the two characters are from different worlds was my main thought (aliens) what if they were made up from two different mood boards too. One from the colourful, bright and optimistic board and the other character, made up from the black and white mood board on the bottom.
just a thought, figured id write it down, not 100% certain but i do prefer my initail mood board on the top.
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