Oak Hill Park Splash Pad

Video features the outdoor Aquatix splash pad by Landscape Structures at Oak Hills Splash Pad in St. Louis Park Minnesota.

[video: scene fades into an elevated view of a park splash pad with surround blue circular and rectangular shades with seating areas below. Children play all over the splash pad at the different water activities. From the ground the camera focuses up to a post designed like a tree branch with leaf panels and a large red cherry dump bucket. Water streams on the top of one of the branches. Nearby a silver post has a pedal shaped panels making a flower with streams of water spraying up from the center. A boy stands in the splash zone of a dump bucket. He holds his hands by his head as water pours down on him. Camera switches to a view up to the cherry dump bucket as it tips back up to be filled again. Scene switches to a girl in her wheelchair as she rolls towards three large arched pipes making a tunnel. She holds her hand out as she rolls past a water sprayer. Scene switches to elevated view of the splash pad filled with playing children. A girl cartwheels through a tunnel of arched water streams from ground sprayers. Scene switches to a girl as she pushes the plunger of a water cannon. A boy hugs a red sphere with a single stream of water spraying out from it. The boy holds his finger in front of the stream causing the water to fan out and spray differently. A girl sits in her wheelchair under the arched bars as they mist her with water. She wipes her hair back from her face. There girls giggle as they stand in the streams of water coming from ground sprayers. The camera focuses on the ground sprayers as the girls hold their hands over the tops of the streams.]

Girl: Any minute now, any minute.

[video: a girl pushes her friend in her wheelchair through the arch tunnel as nozzles mist them from all directions. The camera focuses on a low bubbling ground sprayer. A young boy waddles past the ground sprayer looking down at the ground. Two girls hold their hands out to play in the water of multiple ground sprayers. One of the girls skips away. A boy stands in the splash zone of a dump bucket as water drenches him. Scene switches to a full ground view across the entire splash pad as children play at all the different water activities. A girl lightly jogs as she pushes her friend in her wheelchair through the streams of water spraying from a flower sprayer. To boy stand at a water cannon sphere pointing it across the splash pad. One of the boys holds his hand in front of the stream of water. A girl holds onto the handles of a boy as he sits in his walker. He kicks his feet through the stream of water spraying from the ground. The camera focuses on the girl as she pushes the boy through the arched stream water tunnel. Camera switches to a bird’s eye view of the splash pad. Scene switches to a girl as she plays with her ponytail while speaking to the camera.]

Girl: It has a lot of cool things that you can go through. And you can either choose not to get super wet or you can choose to get really wet.

[video: top-down view of water pouring down onto a group of children in slow motion. Camera switches back to girl as she continues to speak.

Girl: I like going under the cherry dumper.

[view: the a ground view up the camera focuses on the cherry dump bucket as it slowly begins to tip. Camera switches to a ground view up from the splash zone as the camera is drenched with water. Scene switches to three boys as they stand in front of the camera. One of the boy talks about the splash pad.]

Boy: I like the cannon because no one expects it when you fire at them because it goes really far.

[video: a boy smiles as he pushes the plunger of a water cannon. Camera switches back to the boys as a second boy speaks.]

Boy 2: I like playing in the water because you get to splash people and they get soaked.

[video: camera is mounted to the water cannon. The cannon pivots and moves stopping and pointing at two boys. One of the boys runs off. Camera switches to a frontal view of the cannon. A boy sprays the camera with the cannon. Scene switches to a full elevated view of the splash pad and the surrounded seating areas. Scene switches to two girls as they hug their shoulders and talk to the camera.]

Girl 2: My favorite thing about this water park is that it’s really fun to play on and you can meet new friends.

[video: a group of children run together through the arched misting pipes. The camera pans with a girl as she pushes her friend’s wheelchair walking them through the arched misting pipes. The camera focuses on arched ground sprayers creating a tunnel. Other children play at other surround activities as a little boy walks through the tunnel. Camera switches to a view down the water stream tunnel as a girl in slow motions through with her arms reaching out to touch the water. Two girls run towards the camera through a row of ground sprayers. A boy off camera shouts “Oh come on!”]

 

[video: with a elevated view the camera pans from left to right across the splash pad. Scene switches to a ground view at the end of the arched pipe tunnel. Two girls push their friends in their wheelchair and walker through the misting arched bars. Scene switches to two boys as they stand in the splash zone of the cherry dump bucket. One of the boys looks up at the bucket waiting for the water to fall. In slow motion the boy braces lifting his hands to his head as a waterfall pours down on them. A group of girls stand off to the side waiting their turn. Camera switches to a full ground view of the splash pad as children play at the different activities. Camera switches to a mounted view on the back of a girl’s wheelchair as she wheels through the arched misting tunnel. She then wheels through the arched ground sprayer tunnel. Scene switches to a boy as he puts his finger over the sphere cannon water stream affecting how the water sprays. He pushes his finder all the way to the nozzle trying to stop the flow of water. A boy stands on his own in the splash zone of the cherry dump bucket as he waits patiently for the water to fall. He braces himself as the water pours down onto him in slow motion. Scene switches to an elevated panning right to left view of the entire splash pad as children continue to play. Two girls stand with their hands above their heads making themselves look like pencils. They stand in the splash zone of the cherry dumb bucket. The waterfalls drenching one girl more then the other. One of the girls giggles and smiles as her friend gets wet. In slow motion a boy walks through the arched mister tunnel. A boy smiles and waves to the camera in slow motion as he stands by a flower water sprayer. Scene flashes white and to the next scene with a view through the streams of ground sprayers to two girls as they sit on the ground smiling at the camera. Scene flashes white and to the next scene to a girl as she wears lime green sunglasses. She lifts her head to look up at the sky smiling as the sun and clouds are mirror in her sunglasses. The camera focuses on a touch water activation post as a girl holds her hand over the activation pad. The camera focuses in closer on the activation pad as a girl places her hand on the sensor. The camera angle switches several times as the girl over and over activates the water by placing her hand on the activation pad. The camera focuses on the activation pad the reads “Let’s Play” with a handprint in the middle. A child places their hand on the pad. Camera pulls back for a full view of the activation post. A boy runs up to it and places his hand on top. The boy looks behind himself to the splash pad as he watches the water begin to stream at all the different water activities. He slowly jogs back to the splash pad to play in the water. The screen fades to white as blue animated rain drops fall in the center of the screen. As the droplets fall the Aquatix logo appears. The screen fades to black and the video ends.]