The optional mood reel

For an idea that lives in rhythm or music, a still page can't show it. A mood reel can.

The mood reel [best available, not yet validated]: for the recommended concept only, when its idea lives in rhythm or music. Hold its key frames for 20–40 s to temp music or a reading of the line. Nothing is generated as video.

Cut it on a timeline in Premiere or DaVinci Resolve: each frame held for its share of the beats, the music or the read beneath. Export it small enough to sit on a client page (see Client presentations → Films, words and nothing internal).

It is not the treatment's mood film, which is cut from other films' footage (see Writing the treatment → Storyboard images).

Sources

• This Guide's own method; no outside source yet.