Understanding the Character

As I began to dive deeper into my production process, I felt it was important that I take a step back and truly focus on the character I wish to represent. Although I had an overall idea, I do not think I was familiar enough with her to build her life and story, therefore compromising my ability to successfully develop my opening scene. As a result, I concluded that constructing a mood board would facilitate my perception of this character. In addition, I felt the mood board was important for me to visualize mise-en-scene aspects on a deeper, more technical level. 

Here is the mood board I created:

My first major decision was the color palette. For this, I decided that blue would be a major part of the mise-en-scene for this piece as it characterizes sadness, an aspect I hope elicit in my character. I also decided that neutral colors, such as black and gray, would be fitting given the situation the character finds herself in. This character seems stuck in a bland meaningless life, a theme I feel what many consider "boring" colors would portray effectively. Next, I felt depicting the major settings would assist in further building the mood and theme of the scene. In the mood board, I included a few pictures eliciting a messy room. More specifically, a messy teenage girl room. I feel that the chaos within her room could represent her mental state, one distinguished by melancholy and confusion. In addition, I included pictures of both a therapist office and a classroom, simply to demonstrate the two other major locations this character attends. Lastly, I included pictures of teenage girls with a similar demographic to the character. One of the pictures elicits a girl laying on top of her school books, exhausted. I felt images such as this capture the same essence that I plan for my character to evoke, prompting me to include them within this storyboard. 

Now that I have more of a background on the teenager I am developing, I feel more prepared and confident to begin more in depth storyline planning.