Scouting Locations #1

Yesterday I managed to go to my first location - the river/ grassy area.
As we have just had Summer things have wildly overgrown and there is a lot of greenery. This will probably die down as we head into Winter, so depending on when I film the locations may change slightly. I quite like the idea of a more bare, wintery feel, but time constrictions may not allow for this.

 As well as the river there is a woodland area on the way to the river beach that may be good for a few scenery shots for cutaways.

Here is the grassy beach area of the river location. The grass was a lot taller than I expected so may be hard to film in. Also there are risks involved which I will go into in my Risk Assessment.

1:41-1:49 includes a shot of rapids of the river, so it was good to take some test shots of this to use. There are also plenty of stones for the artist to throw into the river. I did a few test shots of the 1:50-1:58 shot which I will post later...

One issue that I found was that the ripples were quickly moved away by the running water.
Below you can see the density of the grass...

But also there is a more sparse patch which I probably won't use, but may be a good place for some running about or dancing.

Next I travelled to a different location, crossed a bridge...

... and went to the location for 2:28-2:41, which can be seen in my practice video for Run.

Under the bridge may be a good 'plan b' location if it starts to rain.

 I took a few shots there last year and they turned out quite well. Below is an example...

Further up, there is a field that maybe useful for a few shots of the artist running around in.

There is also a waterfall that I also used last year (see below), but it has changed a lot and has overgrown so I probably won't use it. 

However, I managed to get some great shots of the water that I could use. 


I'm looking forward to getting to the other locations this week to see how they'll work out as well.