Experimenting with Moodboards

Since the last lecture, I have been experimenting with moodboards by using websites such as Pinterest and Getty (As suggested by Emma Landolt during her Skype talk) to collect relevant images which might help inspire an idea for the animated piece that I will be developing for this module. In order to locate images, I  searched for the various synonyms and concepts from the spider diagram which I poster earlier on in this blog. Once I had collected a fairly large number of images, I began to sort them into categories (e.g. 'nature' or 'the middle of nowhere') before using the best images to produce the following moodboards:

This process has helped me to clarify what kind of concepts I am most interested in pursuing in terms of developing my animation. Clearly I am very interested in the idea of wide open isolated spaces with just one or two features appearing in the baron landscape. I was particularly inspired by the small hut with the 'Fishing' sign; I really like the idea of having a tourist attraction in the middle of nowhere.

Above are some quick sketches I made after finding the image of the hut. The way it's so precariously placed on the edge of a cliff brought to mind the idea that the hut itself might fall off and go on a journey of its own - I this idea struck me as quite interesting as I don't think I would have otherwise considered the potential for the 'main character' of my animation to be an inanimate object.