Account of location requirements

We shot our entire sequence on the Hurtwood viewpoint, which was quite useful as the viewpoint is only 5 minutes away from our school. As for finding viewpoint, several teachers had recommended that we should shoot there because of the viewpoints beautiful view, heavy forest, and proximity to the school. The forest in question provided a several locations to shoot our thriller, not only did the forest have a vast amount of heavy trees but also had an extensive collection of intense bushes.
As we came up with the location to shoot our sequence just before we actually started shooting we did not have time to go and investigate the area before hand. So we were in a sense going into the filming blind. Without any prior knowledge about the area we would have to make it up as we went along.
Due to the distance the viewpoint was from the school it was impossible to have an artificial light used to help create atmosphere, because of this we had to rely on sun light for the entire production. As we were shooting in the day time this was not really an issue expect for the times when we were shooting the actor in a very heavy bush which restricted the light from entering into it. Another issue with using sunlight is the inconsistence of the light. There were a few shots that we had to film exceedingly quickly as the difference in light could cause incongruities in the thriller sequence.