Haby: Creative Briefs and Mood Boards

Inanimate Actors

The content that my exhibition will feature is a collection of famous props from very well known movies. The movies will span over multiple genres and time periods. Their only similarity is that they can all be identified easily by a wide variety of audience members. The movie props themselves will be items whose presence is so integral to the plot that the movie would be changed without them. They not only are well known themselves but, over time, have become characters in their own right, securing a place within the film they are presented in as much as the actors themselves.

The collection will be featured at the Hollywood Museum and the Hollywood Heritage Museum in Hollywood, California; The Museum of the Moving Image in New York; The Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne; and the London Film Museum in London.

The exhibit will be geared more towards adults who would most likely be more interested in the items from the movies and have a greater appreciation for them. However, because the movie props come from a wide variety of films, there is no minimum or maximum age at which someone might lose interest. Movie fans come from everywhere, so the exhibit will be for anyone who enjoys the art of cinema and movies of popular culture.

Most people only see movies through a screen; to them, that is as real as the experience gets. No matter how much they may enjoy it or what a particular movie may mean to them, it is only as real as they can see it through a monitor. This exhibit will give people a chance to have a new kind of experience with movies. For the first time they will get to be up close to physical aspects of their favorite movies, seeing them in a way that is not possible on a screen.

There is something special about seeing something face to face. You can watch movies and have the ideas exist inside of your head. But being in the same space as something that before only existed in a television or theater screen makes it come to life. It has the ability to unleash imaginations, because though you might have known about the movie props existing, seeing them in real time and space gives them a magical, pervasive quality that extends far beyond the typical movie-going experience.

Color Scheme:

I chose the colors black and white first because they relate the most to film. Even if a movie is current its credits and similar things are usually in black and white. I feel like these colors are classic representations of the movie world.

I chose a red color because red evokes a sense of passion, and movies tend to inspire that in people. Also, it relates to things like red carpets and things like movie premieres.

Lastly I chose a gold because it fits with the concept of money-- how much it takes to make a movie, how much actors are paid, and how much iconic movie props can be worth.

Exhibit Items:

 

Possible Type:

This would involve a sans serif for "Inanimate," reflecting the non-living quality of the movie props, while the "Actors" would have serifs, to represent the aliveness of them and their work which is more fun and spontaneous.

This type is the same sort of idea, only with a film strip added for the "I" at the beginning of "Inanimate."

Other possibilities would include something hand-drawn or possibly created in some way from actual film.