Production Companies return to London - Snapshot July 2
While Feature and TV Drama productions are beginning to get back into gear, London’s commercials producers are out filming on the streets, providing much needed employment for crews.
Latest from the location guide
Portugal’s Diverse Screen Locations
Most of us know Portugal as a tourist destination: summer holidays spent laying on the beaches of Algarve, or maybe a city break to Lisbon or Porto. But when it comes to film locations, Portugal has much more to offer than what may first spring to mind says Hayley Sercombe, Executive Producer / Founder at Film Portugal and Bruno Pinhal, Portuguese Film Director. TLG invited the pair to take us on a tour of Portugal's unexpected locations. Hayley Sercombe, Executive Producer / Founder Film PortugalBruno Pinhal, Portuguese Film Director
Locations in lockdown and scouting for a way through
March 2020 was hotting up to be a very busy time at Scout Productions but in a matter of days we watched helplessly as production after production pulled the plug on their shoots. Who would have thought the film Industry would ground to a halt with in a few days?
How Covid - 19 wiped out London’s film business
Andrew pavord, FilmFixer As Friday 13ths go, March 2020 had a particularly bad one. That Friday morning and over that weekend, one by one, every shoot on our calendar began to cancel. On Monday 16th March, there was almost nothing left.
They call me Verner. Location Manager Chris Tangey relates working with the esteemed director in the Australian outback
There would be few Location Managers who aren’t used to working with big names, and that is true even here in the remote Australian outback. Another quirk of living here is that you have to not just Location Manage and Fix but even shoot, both on the ground and in the air.
TLG talks to Neil Blewett of Datasat Media about the state-of-the-art studio, on set and on location communication and cyber security.
Would we be right in saying that when it comes to film production communications we can break the subject down into two parts – people on the move using mobile communications and office-based secure wireless communications?
Westfjords, an Icelandic paradise for car shoots
In early spring I scouted a gem of a location dubbed Iceland's best kept secret. The Westfjords is the country’s most remote region, and Europe’s most westerly point, and little known to filmmakers. Only one Hollywood picture, Justice League, has ever ventured there to shoot.
Filming in Fiji with Clayton Tikao
I arrived in Fiji, with only 13 days notice, to start work on the feature film Adrift directed and produced by the acclaimed director Baltasar Kormakur. I hadn’t seen the script and assumed we would be filming on a beautiful beach on some deserted island. All I actually knew was the name of the film and that it was based on a book about a ship wrecked sailor. My illusions of a mellow laid back shoot on a tropical island were quickly shattered and I had to hit the ground running.