MoodSpace is Shotly's built-in mood board tool. It's where your visual reference, tone, and aesthetic direction live, alongside everything else in your production, not in a separate Pinterest board.
Every filmmaker has a mood board. Usually it's scattered across Pinterest, a camera roll folder, a bunch of Safari tabs that never quite close, and a few references saved to a Google Drive nobody else can find.
MoodSpace is the Shotly answer to that problem. It's a built-in mood board and visual development tool that lives inside your production workspace, alongside your script, your shot list, your schedule, and your call sheets. Your visual reference is part of your project, not something that lives somewhere else.
The idea behind MoodSpace is simple: the aesthetic direction of a film should be a production document, not a personal folder. Your DP needs to see your references. Your production designer needs to understand your tone. Your editor needs to know what the grade should feel like. MoodSpace is where that conversation happens, and where it stays attached to the project it belongs to.
You can build multiple boards within a project. One for overall tone. One for each location. One for each character's look. One for the colour palette. However your creative process works, MoodSpace fits around it.
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Visual direction isn't decoration. It's a production decision. MoodSpace keeps it in the same place as every other production decision.
Visual direction isn't decoration. It's a production decision. MoodSpace keeps it in the same place as every other production decision.
Jonathan Germanos
Founder, Shotly
The practical benefit of having your mood board inside your production platform is that it stays connected to the project through every stage of pre-production. When your shot list changes, your references are still there. When a new crew member joins, they can see the visual direction immediately without you having to share a separate link or explain the aesthetic from scratch.
It also keeps your creative thinking visible. Mood boards have a habit of existing only in the director's head after the initial conversation. MoodSpace keeps the visual language of the project documented and accessible to the whole team throughout production.
MoodSpace is available on all Shotly plans. Start free at shotly.io and build your first production with visual direction that actually travels with the project.
