What someone is thinking and feeling about a creative idea, an intended vision for a piece of work, is limited by how good a persons verbal communication skills are at expressing this project to others, and to help them understand why they would come on this journey with you. Mood boards help others to 'get inside our heads, and to see what we see. They aren't perfect representations of what we see, thats a near impossibility, but it is a fantastic guide-line for you to explain, and helps others to comprehend this hard to describe concept.
That said, mood boards can be a pain to create, with many hours spent trawling image galleries, websites, books and magazines looking for that perfect image to sum up your intended feel for the work at hand. So here are a collection of tips to help make your mood board making more effective – and double your chances of winning that pitch!
It makes it all worth while...
This took me around 15 minutes of crafting, and its all that i need to get the point across, whilst being accompanied by the single i want to use, and some other information that is important, its a brilliant reference to use...
... However, you may find one issue, or advantage depending on the idea. Some may say that you haven't got enough, and that you need to expand on what you have in order for them to truly get you. But the brilliant truth is, thats a waist of time, when all that you have to do is show them what you have and say, "look at what i have... now imagine this". This method saves time, and as well as showing the inside of your imagination, you're also tapping into theirs, and they will come on this journey with you, or will show you a new journey that you can go on.
Don't feel disheartened when they don't get it, because only two things could have gone wrong...
Either your not explaining yourself well enough, and need to go deeper, or be more specific with the images you choose.
Or, the idea isn't worth pursuing, because its no good, or undoable, and this isn't a bad thing either, as you will begin to explore an idea that will be better overall, and more worth your time. And in the end, i personally would rather do something that is possible and good, than work with less than i have, and make that amazing idea... really... really... badly...
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