1. DIGITAL GRAPHICS
Mood Boards

2. PURPOSE A mood board is a visual brainstorm
It allows a designer to present ideas to a client in a very rough form
Used by a wide variety of designers:
Interior designers
Product designers
Garden designers
Production designers

3. CONTENT For the purpose of your DVD menu a mood board would show:
A range of foreground images you are considering manipulating for the menu
A range of background images you are planning on manipulating for the menu
A swatch of colours with information relating to how they will be used
A swatch of fonts

4. FOREGROUND IMAGES Any images that have considered should go here
Individual characters
Group image of characters
Product logo
An image you are considering using as a portal

5. BACKGROUND IMAGES Use landscape images
Any images that have considered should go here
Use landscape images
Make sure they are larger than standard definition television
Photoshop: Film & Video Preset >>>> Pal D1/DV Widescreen Square Pixel
There colours should support the overall theme
You could identify how you will manipulate them
Again these should be laid out as a collage

6. COLOUR SWATCH Display the colour scheme you are planning on using
Identify which colours you will use in which areas of the design
Background colour, Font colour, Heading outline, Highlight etc.
Make sure your colour scheme supports the overall colour view of your mood board.
Use the snipping tool to grab the swatch from palleton.com

7. FONTS Use the colours planned to show your font
Make sure you create a background block of colour to show it in context
You should write the word in several chosen fonts in a list.
This allows the fonts to be compared easily
Put the name of the font next the word
Do this for each available font style
Heading | Options | Tagline
Always use available fonts, not those from online sources

8. TASK
You should start by researching your chosen genre, look at around 5 dvd menus from similar films and explain:
Choice of imagery
Number of images
Style of font
Colours used
Summarise your findings
Produce a mood board for several films from this genre
Write an explanation of the mood boards in the form of proposals.
How you would create highlights for each
Consider how you might use animated backgrounds
Choose a product to design your DVD Menu for
Produce a more precise mood board for this
Try planning sub menus and produce separate mood boards for these.
Write a detailed proposal for it.