Final location and setting decisions

 FINAL LOCATION AND SETTING DECISIONS

Even though our past conflicts, we kept going back and forth with the idea of going forward with the white room in the end. We asked a friend if we could borrow their living room since it is fully white, but in the end, it didn’t fit our vision. Next, we asked another friend if her living room would be available to us, but she was already using it to film her project. Finally, we came to the resolution of using the woods, but a different section of it. 

In a previous film of ours, we used this patch of woods near our city that had a long field of grass in front. Before, we had used the backside of these trees that were farther away from the park itself, but on the other side was also the highway. This would have ruined our audio and given away the “isolation” aspect we were striving for, it would be completely ruined by the obvious presence of other life forms. For this reason, we filmed in front of the trees, instead of behind. The field seemed way more open this way, creating our pod of isolation for our main character. Not only were the grass fields neverending, but the trees were incredibly tall, giving us the advantage of getting far enough shots, without losing the illusion of him being in an inescapable location. 

The trees behind us did not appear to be the average oak tree most people see in their neighborhoods. The branches and leaves they had hanging over them seemed very out of place with the rest of the surrounding trees. Because of this, we chose a secluded section of trees to film in front of to make it seem like there was a long line of these trees than there actually was. We angled our shots in a way that expanded this horizon.