Production News
New BBC drama Atlantis sets up studio space near Chepstow in Wales
14 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
The BBC’s new drama series Atlantis is setting up studio space in a former supermarket storage building near Chepstow in Wales. Doctor Who and long-running medical drama Casualty are based at the BBC’s Roath Lock studio facility in nearby Cardiff. More ...
Skunk films runaway train rescue on location in Romania for Jameson Whiskey
12 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Skunk doubled Romania and the Bulgarian coast for 19th Century Northern Ireland in a new spot for Jameson Whiskey. Iron Horse features John Jameson rescuing a cargo of whiskey barrels and women from a runaway train before it plunges over a cliff top. More ...
Traktor builds lemon grove and Parisian street filming on location in India for HSBC
8 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Traktor built a lemon grove and a Parisian street on location in southern India for a new commercial for banking giant HSBC. The spot shows a small American girl meeting a new supplier in India for her multinational lemonade stand while she co-ordinates on the phone with her ‘branch’ in France. More ...
Bleu Arc chases cheaper European production costs filming in Budapest
6 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Hong Kong-based production company Bleu Arc chose a Budapest location shoot for Chinese clothing brand Youngor when the city offered cheaper production costs. The original plan to film around Oxford University in England proved too expensive. More ...
Blink Productions films Three’s dancing pony on location on Shetland
5 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Blink Productions headed north of Scotland to Shetland to film a dancing Shetland pony in a celebration of silliness for the Three network. The spot features the tiny pony showing off its dance moves on a scenic cliff top. More ...
Atlantic Pictures chooses Texas filming locations for Defiance alien invasion
5 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Atlantic Pictures chose dusty filming locations in Texas to shoot the live-action trailer for videogame Defiance. Delivering Mad Max-style visuals, the spot shows a team of drifters fleeing a brawl in a remote bar before facing off against an alien invasion in a dystopian California. More ...
Radical Media stages Holi festival on location in India to David Bowie lyrics
4 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Radical Media used David Bowie’s lyrics from Sound and Vision to stage the distinctive Holi festival on location in Jaipur in northern India. The scenes are the finale of a new spot promoting the Sony Xperia Z smartphone as two tourists snap the festival’s vivid colours. More ...
Irene rallies Roman army filming on location in Morocco for Orange
4 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Paris-based production house Irene rallied Roman soldiers in Morocco for a new spot promoting the Livebox Play TV decoder from Orange. Director Xavier Giannoli’s ad features a TV viewer interrupting a Roman leader’s battle cry in a remote desert. More ...
ECU Productions dodges Cairo demonstrations on location for Vodafone
1 Mar 2013 by Nick Goundry
Cairo-based ECU Productions dodged political demonstrations in the Egyptian capital to film a new spot for Vodafone. The commercial shows a group of energetic shopkeepers tagging each other along their street. More ...
RSA Films and Jake Scott use scenic Iceland filming locations for Hewlett Packard
28 Feb 2013 by Nick Goundry
RSA Films and director Jake Scott headed to northern Iceland to film a campaign for software company Hewlett Packard. The spot shows a family in a picturesque fishing village using a new HP printer to promote their charter fishing boat trips. More ...
