22 September 2013

Mood Board #2: Location - SURREY HILLS



The second picture on the mood board is of Surrey Hills, and more specifically - Box Hill. Box Hill has been the location for a number of high budget films, most recently The World's End, however in this film it only featured for a few minutes. We could use Box Hill for a number of outside country shots. What makes professional trailers look professional is that they have a wide variety of locations and costumes from a wide variety of scenes, so by having the contrast of somewhere like Box Hill with Brighton Pier there is a sharp contrast between the green nature and the coastal nature, and Brighton city and a view over Surrey. There are also stepping stones across a river, which is an interesting location, but they wouldn't be quite suitable for our film, as our film is a serious action movie. They may work well in a montage sequence for a romance movie, but I don't think they'd be quite right for us.



Not far from Box Hill is the Denbies wine estate and vineyard. Denbies has quite a foreign, almost south of France look to it, and can also look quite daunting, seeming as its look is not dissimilar to Auschwitz. We were considering using it as the location for the antagonists' mansion because of this foreboding look. You can also get inside it as there is a restaurant, so we would be able to get inside it and have some shots of the antagonist walking inside. The vineyard surrounding the estate is also a good location for a chase sequence, and would also make a very strong location.