Mood boards, spider diagrams, storyboards, any visual method of recording information is going to be very helpful when you have keep referring back and reminding yourself of the original ideas and possible paths you could take. I have personally used mood boards and spider diagrams a lot in my photography and media studies. Here is a mood board I created when I was creating a music video for my A level media studies coursework.
I found using a mood board particularly useful because it allowed be to collect all the ideas, colours, shapes and settings I had in my mind, put them down on a sheet in front of me and let my mind wander. By being able to see everything I imagine together it forces me to experiment with combining each element and producing a whole new impression. The same applies to spider diagrams, however instead of looking at an image you can encourage the expansion of one idea by creating the diagram using colour. For example, the main idea could be in blue, then an element branching off that could be in orange and so on until you have a page of every colour in the rainbow. Colours are always useful for remembering things and influencing new ideas as they aid the memory and help with recall significant points of that project. However one disadvantage of using paper-based research is that you could easily lose it and there isn’t a way to back it up. (Unless you create more than one, which is very time consuming) Another is that with storyboards you can draw and create the frame and put everything you want, how you want. But, you cannot accurately judge the real location when putting it down on paper. Therefore when it comes to carrying out the task or project you may come across a few implications because not all of you props or actors will fit in the shot.
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