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Moodboards

A moodboard is a visual inspiration board you can attach to any scene, character, costume, location, or other breakdown element in your project. It holds a mix of image tiles and colored text tiles in a masonry grid. Directors use them to brief DPs before a scout, production designers bring them to art department meetings, and costume designers send them to vendors. Open them from Visual → Moodboards to see every moodboard in the project, or find them directly on individual boards (scene board, character board, etc.) as Moodboard cards.

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Creating a moodboard

  1. Open any board in the project. You can also open the project board (the project overview) for project-level moodboards.
  2. Click Add Card (the + button on the board).
  3. Select Moodboard from the card type list and click Continue.
  4. Give the moodboard a name. For example: “Direction 1: Midnight Blue” or “Act II Wardrobe: Elena”.
  5. Pick a theme color. Choose one of the preset swatches or enter a custom hex value. The theme color sets the default background for text tiles and the accent bar on the card.
  6. Click Create Card. The moodboard card appears on the board. Click it to open the full-screen tile view.
You can create multiple moodboards on the same board. A wardrobe item board might have “Option A: Dusty Rose” and “Option B: Forest Green” as two separate moodboards for comparing costume directions.

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Adding image tiles

  1. Open the moodboard by clicking the card title or preview.
  2. Click Add Image (in the tile action strip below the grid, or in the empty state buttons if there are no tiles yet).
  3. The image picker opens. Choose from your project library or upload a new file from the Upload tab.
  4. Select an image and click Insert. The tile appears in the grid immediately.
Images added to moodboards are tagged as reference images and count toward your project’s media storage.

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Adding text tiles

  1. Open the moodboard.
  2. Click Add Text in the action strip.
  3. Enter a Headline (required) and optional Body text.
  4. Set a Tile color. It defaults to the moodboard’s theme color. Change it with the color picker or by typing a hex value.
  5. Click Add tile. The text tile appears in the grid.
Use text tiles for mood descriptors, color names, lighting directions, or any annotation you want alongside the reference images.

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Changing the theme color

  1. Open the moodboard.
  2. Click the palette icon (color circle) in the top-right header.
  3. Choose a preset swatch or use the color picker and hex input.
The theme color updates immediately. It shows as the accent bar on the board preview card and sets the default color for new text tiles.

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Reordering tiles

Drag any tile to a new position. Release the tile to drop it. The new order saves automatically when you release.

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Removing a tile

Hover a tile and click the X button that appears in the top-right corner. The tile is removed immediately. There is no confirmation step. Tiles are easy to re-add, so removal is intentionally instant.

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Viewing a moodboard full screen

Click the moodboard card title or preview on the board to open the full masonry view. The grid shows tiles in a 4-column layout on large screens, scaling down to 3, 2, and 1 column on smaller screens.

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The Moodboards index

Visual → Moodboards lists every moodboard in the project with its context. The context badge shows where the moodboard lives: “Scene 12 · INT. KITCHEN”, “Character · Elena”, “Wardrobe · Elena’s Act II Dress”, or “Project · My Film” for project-level boards. Click any entry to open that moodboard’s full tile view.

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Exporting as PDF

  1. Open the moodboard.
  2. Click Download PDF in the header, then click Export PDF in the dropdown.
  3. The export runs in the background. The button shows “Exporting…” while it processes.
  4. When the export finishes, the file download starts automatically.
The PDF includes a clean title header, the context breadcrumb (so the recipient knows which scene or character it belongs to), and a polished 4-column landscape grid. Image tiles keep their natural aspect ratio and render with higher detail for print. Text tiles keep their color styling and typography so callouts remain readable in exported pages. When PDFShift is enabled on your workspace, moodboard exports use Chromium rendering for tighter parity with the in-app tile layout. If PDFShift is not available, export falls back to the built-in PDF renderer. If you need to share the moodboard with someone who does not have access to Spell Slate, the PDF is the right format.

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More

  • Lookbook: Full-project visual document with scene pages, color bars, and shot list.
  • Media: Project image library. Images added via moodboards appear here tagged as reference.
  • Boards and cards: The board system that moodboard cards live in.