This is my mood board, and my focus is teenager life. The major tone is monotone, which includes variety of shades of black and white colors. The white color grab the viewers attention with its contrasting lightness with black, and black can show the depth and dismal atmosphere as black symbolizes death, mourning, and evil magic. All of the photographs in my mood board are taken by Yousuf  Karsh, a photographer who influenced me to take these close-up portraits. I also really liked the idea of using additional objects to deepen the mood of the photographs, for example, using smoke for the top right one, and using a paint brush for the top middle one. These objects can also convey a message with the symbolism of the object; same as the usage of color. I feel like these close-up shots really deepens the empathy of the main subject’s emotions, which is one of the most important part of my intent. I also want to focus on some natural lights that naturally leads the focus to the subject. For example, I really liked how the photo on the bottom left gives the feeling of having the light behind the subject so that it centers and gives the focus on the main subject. As the main color focus will be monotone colors, I’m looking forward to see some contrast between the light and the background as I feel like it will increase the interest and also deepen serious atmosphere by showing the level of lightness in black and white color tones.