Moodboard for Opening Sequence

 Mood Board for Opening Sequence

For our movie's opening sequence, we are using high-key lighting, as the setting is a high school in the middle of the school day, as shown by the mood board above. In my mood board, I am trying to capture the essence of the clip's 2 main characters' personalities. Priscilla Humphrey, the girl on the left, is shown to be wearing makeup and a fashionable outfit, which is meant to show off her affluence and the vanity of her personality. The image I found of Priscilla was actually inspired by an image of Gretchen Wieners from Mean Girls. This means with Priscilla's character, I am trying to portray a typical high school bully/mean girl. She is very much entitled and believes she will undoubtedly get into Harvard University, so her prop will be an opened computer in a high school library as she checks her Harvard decision, expecting an acceptance letter to be at her fingertips. The other main character, Lyra Stone, who is pictured on the right in the mood board above, is the polar opposite of her bully Priscilla. Lyra is wearing glasses, a modest sweater, and skinny jeans, which is a jean style that is out of style as of right now. This outfit is meant to show Lyra's personality to be humble, shy, intelligent as the stereotype is that many nerds wear glasses, and of Lyra not having as much money as Priscilla as she isn't following the latest trends. Lyra's prop, which is an Advanced Placement Psychology textbook, is meant to further highlight her brilliance as she is taking Advanced Placement classes, which are rigorous college-level classes, when she herself is only a high school student. She will have moments of being filmed walking in her high school's hallway clutching her beloved textbook to her chest.