In our student made production, the ending of our opening scene starts in a field, where the antagonist chases the tortured victim who had escaped. I live a few minutes away from a field, and took some pictures, but decided that it would be the wrong place to film this scene for many reasons.
The first reason was that it is a public field, in which some activities are very out of place for where the characters were prior to this scene, which was implied that the killer's hideout was on a field, and there is no "hideout" on this field, just objects used by dog owners to train their dogs.
The second reason is that it is right next to a residential area of mostly old people and families, so a child or an elderly woman looking out of her window to see a girl bruised with makeup, running barefoot from a disguised girl wearing a bloody sack over her head whilst chasing the victim with a hammer would cause some alarms, especially to people that might not understand, and it being a public place.
Another issue is that the field is thick with mud, so it would be hard for the actors to run when they get their feet, and boots stuck in mud, also the sound would be just squelching due to the mud.
The field has a lot of area, but there is a building with every turn, and it has no turns, it is simply a flat field with nothing interesting, not even long grass or trees in the way, or a path.
There is a forest area down below, but to get there, there are lots of stinging nettles which wouldn't be good to go through because of the actor being in bare foot, and even when they are down there, there is not much down, it is a few trees together, but you can easily see out of the trees to a hospital and other buildings, as well as a busy road.
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