Mood Boards

I know you should start with a time frame for a film when you are starting it, however i'm not actually going to put a time onto it as we were only given a "minimum of 30 seconds". So i will see how long it takes for me to put everything together that i want to put together, and see how long its will take in seconds for it to look right - i wont be rushing it.

First of all i want to start by making some mood boards so i can start to get a idea of what i want to include in my animation - instead of making them on the computer i have cheated and printed off images and arranged them in my book so i can write freely and annotate where i want- i prefer this to begin with, as it helps me to get my ideas down onto paper. From research i have found that O'Keeffe was influences by many things - the things brought up on more then one occasion were

• New Mexico
• Scenery - paintings
• Flowers - paintings
• Colours
• Bones - paintings
• White Canvas
• Alfred Stieglitz
• Photography
• and a artist  called Arthur Wesley Dow

For me it is a necessity to include the all aspects of O'Keeffe's influences as it is a film about her, and certain influences would impact on her work. I know that Arthur Wesley Dow was a icon of  O'Keeffe's, he actually taught and mentored her for a big at the beginning of her career. But if i was to add Dow in, i feel like it would be more about her life story, and i want it to be about her work. I love the mood boards with all of O'Keeffe's work on, they are bright, bold, and elegant in a under stated way. I love the brightness of the colours she uses, the are not realistic to the colour of the actual objects she was studying at the time (apart from the flowers and actually the skull work its pretty simular to what a skull would look like - its the backgrounds that are more often then not, abstract.)

Im realy excited to get down and dirty and dive right into making my story boards! Im excited by all the bright colour and rich scenery O'Keeffe spent most of her life with.

 Actually before i start i want to make sure i have more images of what O'Keeffe looked like in her hay-day and when she is a little older. I just thought maybe i could have a image of a young O'Keeffe at the beginning of the film and then an older image of O'Keeffe at the end of the film, it could link the end of her life with the end of the film?

I know i already have images of O'Keeffe on my blog already but i wanted to make a little mood board where i could get a good idea of what she was like. Thankfully, due to her marriage to Alfred Strieglitz an American Photographer, there are quite a few images of O'Keeffe, who is actually rather beautiful, even in her elder years she is beautiful, she has perfect facial proportions.