Locating the Location

Hey everyone! As you already know, our film opening is going to take place in a field of some sorts. We also are going to need a tree becuase that is a very important aspect to our film opeing as the girl will be able to converse with it. Andrea and I have did some research and found three possible filimg locations. Being young highschool students, we do not have the opportunity to scour the world in an attempt to find the world's most beautiful setting. We are limited to locations that are 30 minutes or less away from our hometown of Weston, Fl.

In spite of this, we found three possible fiming locations.  Yesterday afterschool, Andrea and I drove to these three filming locations.  The three contenders were: Vista View Park, a random hill in the neighborhood "The Ridges", and Tree Tops Park. Let me explain why/why not we are choosing the location that we chose(scroll down to the bottom for the answer if you want to know now, or continue reading if you want to see how we determined which shooting location would work best fro us)

Contender #1: The Ridges

This location offers a large grassy field with a tree set atop of a hill. The tree for our video needs to have branches pretty low to the ground so that are actress can climb the tree. Sure enough, this tree does have climbable branches. I also really like the fact that the area behind the tree is elevated. The hill blocks the houses in the back, masking the fact that we are in
a neighborhood.



Contender #2: Tree Tops Park




This park offers large trees and a grassy field. However, this location can be deemed a bit more "foresty". The trees at this park overlap oneanother, and that is not optimal for our film opening. We want a stand alone tree as it can help to establish emphasis on that specific tree and make it stand out. Also, you cannot tell in this picture, but behind the tree on the right is a playground. We would not want that to be seen in our film opening.



Contender #3: Vista View Park





This grassy field is actually a landill. You would nevr know that by these photos however.  I like the large grassy filed, but unfortunately, the trees are just too small. The only tree that could possibly work is the one in the photograph on the right, but unfortunateluy in the background you can see the road which is a hugeee no no.



Drum Roll Please.........

Contender 1 is the winner! The best part, it is only 5 miutes away from my house. The photos in all of these photos look a bit drab which is not the look that we are going for. We are going to film are film opening during the time of sunset, so we can get that "golden hour" look and get some pretty colors in the background of the film!