Location Research: The Splash

 In our opening scene we film in three different locations. We filmed at The Splash in Leatherhead, Costa Coffee in Leatherhead and a bench in Leatherhead.

We used The Splash located in Leatherhead to film our opening scene as it's quiet, mysterious, remote and gloomy. It seemed the ultimate and perfect place to film as Tara was walking her dog in what looks like a normal ordinary woods with fields and exciting walks for the dog. 

Myself and the others thought the splash would be an ideal place to film as in the picture you can see it looks dark interesting and quite scary at the same time. The trees create tension and sinister shapes in the distance. The fencing shows the pathway going on for a long time also implying you are locked in the area and there is no way out.  The darkness created by the trees helps the effect of the lighting appear darker showing the audience how something unusual is likely to happen. The use of the large tree's helped us take advantage of them to use it as a place for our antagonist to hide and spy on the protagonist.  We started filming at around 13:20pm and finished at around 3:30pm. As it's winter we wanted to make sure we had good lighting and it wasn't darker than it should. If we left it any later being in an enclosed space it would have made our scenes very under exposed and not effective.

The Splash had many different hills and ditches which we were able to take advantage of to get effective shots. In this picture --->

you can see Myself standing on a steep hill recording a canted angle of Nadiye walking across the bridge. This angle is effective as it portrays unease and madness. The trees in the background also create shadows making frantic action. The woodland effect was really natural in showing where Nadiye was and the activity she was taking part in as it didn't look fake. 

In this picture you can see that we are filming in a enclosed area which looks isolated and uninterrupted. This is because The Splash has a really long trail which means there were near to nobody around which meant we were able to film effectively without catching anyone in the background making it unrealistic. In the background you can see sharp looking trees which connotes murder and stabbing. This helps    promote our film as we were filming the murder scene at this location. 

The picture also looks quite dark implying it was quiet gloomy and frightening, which was perfect for that particular dark and twisted shot. The location however comes across as quiet exciting supporting the thriller theme/genre.