Structure and Attachment | Mood Boarding

Collection of various images and sketches used to create my 'STRUCTURE' mood board

STRUCTURE

As only previously having done Art and Photography A-levels, the concept of a mood board was quite new to me, however after partaking in a few group exercises playing around with images, composition and colour I felt myself getting used to the grouping and arranging of random things. Stepping away from using the internet let me engage my brain more on what resources I was choosing, as well as just using books I went through my 'hoarder' boxes, which produced some lovely scans.

After brainstorming the words separately I collected images from both and made piles of each, with an extra pile of images that applied to both structure and attachment. This ranged from photocopies of friendship bracelets to my old reebok shoe laces tied together. I'd say I got on with the day pretty well, my final board for structure flowed well, the colours are balanced throughout and none of the images lead your eye out of the board, keeping the focus on each image.  I chose to lay it out in a circle as it means the board automatically flows, and tried to alternate between circular, rectangular and miscellaneous shapes to keep variety. 

However, one part of colour paletting I really struggled with, was not 'over-doing' the accent, which here I'd say I did a little. I wanted to keep the warmer tones balanced across the board but as more of my images were black and white they tended to look more random than I wanted them to. My main issue with this board is the comic look about the pepper 'bag' or so it looks like, I desperately wanted to keep this image in as I felt the colour and 'structure' of the object was interesting, however I couldn't place it. Perhaps, if this was to be redone, I would enlarge the pepper and decrease the size of the scanned necklace, which is the top right image. 

The feedback I received from various tutors suggested that my colour balancing was successful but I needed to make sure all my images were of a similar quality. This was extremely helpful as it's an easy improvement but it makes so much difference to the overall piece. As long as I can keep colour and composition flowing and the images are of high quality but boards should always be successful. 

Through looking at others examples and images I learn new ways to layout; although I normally choose a circular composition, it can also be linear, horizontal and so on. We were taught to pick out the 'focus' image and place it centrally, and from this to work around and onto it. This was a brilliant tip, as it meant the immediate focus of the viewers eye was on the most important image. I also found once you've placed one image down the others seem easier to place, so this helped that too.

Mood boarding will be used throughout my project to ensure I am focusing on my chosen theme and developing as I go along. This means I will be able to quickly look back at main ideas for each part of development to reference, or to develop the idea further,